Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Mini Lesson: Clauses and Phrases

1. E (Engage): Students will be asked what is wrong with a sentence on the powerpoint to introduce the topic.

2. E (Explore): Students will be asked questions about sentences in the powerpoint to establish what they already know about the topic.

3. E (Explain): I will explain to the students about clauses and phrases.

4. E (Expand): Students will create sentences on their own and point out to their neighbors the clauses and phrases in the sentence they made.

5. E (Evaluate): Hear a few examples from the class.

6. E (E-Search): For "homework" the students will surf the internet to find quotes in sentence form from a song, book, poem, movie, skit...etc (that are school appropriate), and they will print out the quote in document form, and establish and clauses and/or phrases they found in their chosen text. They'll bring it in to share the next day in class.

1 comment:

Twangie said...

I enjoyed the mini lesson Liza presented. She gave examples of "subject and predicate" in a clear manner that was easy to understand. She also engaged the class with her "scratch paper" activity.