LANGUAGE ARTS Lesson 19 (The Life of George Washington Carver)

Day 3 (1 hour) 11:00 12:00

Enthusiastic About: Learning about the genre of biographies and applying knowledge of sounds, letters, and
words to better understand texts.
Materials: GWC graphic organizer, Storytown textbook, PowerPoint slideshow

Objectives:

The students will apply phonics and spelling

skills to decode vowel digraphs -ee and -ea.
The students will summarize text features and key
story details into a graphic organizer.

Assessment of Objective Accomplishment:

1. Teacher Observation
2. Graphic Organizer review
3. Question and Answer

The students will demonstrate fluency and

comprehension via a whole brain approach with
grade appropriate text.

Procedure with Amount of Time Stated for Each Activity:

The class will finish their The Life of George Washington Carver (GWC) graphic organizers. The teacher will
display the graphic organizer on the Polyvision board and ask guiding questions to elicit responses from students.
Student responses will be used to formulate information for the graphic organizer.
Students will participate in a whole brain reading strategy of The Life of George Washington Carver via the
crazy professor method. Students will be paired together (one strong reader paired with a struggling reader) and
will take turns being either a reader or an actor. Using the student textbook, one child reads slowly and dramatically
while the other child acts out the story according to what their partner is reading. The teacher will randomly notify
partners to switch roles throughout the activity. As partners finish their reading, they will join the teacher at the
front of the room to engage in a summarizing activity.
The teacher will display a slideshow review of robust vocabulary and will ask corresponding questions to enhance
understanding of the vocab (modeling when necessary). To check for understanding the students will be asked a
series of fill in the blank questions at the conclusion of the slideshow.

State Standard(s) Addressed:

CC.1.1.2.D
CC.1.1.2.E
CC.1.2.2.A
CC.1.2.2.B
CC.1.2.2.C
CC.1.2.2.E
CC.1.2.2.F
CC.1.2.3.A
CC.1.3.2.G