Lesson Plan: Phrase Power

Prerequisites
This lesson plan continues to develop the skills students learned in Lesson One: Word Power. Students should understand main ideas, supporting ideas, and details and be able to put them in deductive order using Power Outlines.

Materials
Computer Lab (Internet Access)

Learner Objective
Students will develop Word Power Outlines into Phrase Power Outlines

Behavioral Objective
Given a series of list of related phrases, students will accurately order them into main ideas, supporting ideas and details. They will be able to write their own Phrase Power Outlines, organizing their ideas in 12-3 order.

Anticipatory Set
Write the following Word Power Outline on the board. 1) Food 2) Pizza 2) Pasta Ask students to tell you more about each word on the list. Use their answers to create a parallel Phrase Power Outline that develops each word from the model outline into a phrase. 1) Italian Food 2) Pizza, a flatbread topped with tomato sauce, cheese and meats or vegetables 2) Pasta, different shapes and sizes of noodles covered in a sauce

Input
Explain to students that they will learn to develop Word Power Outlines into Phrase Power Outlines.

Direct Instruction/Modeling
1. Write the numbers 1), 2), and 3) on the board and ask students to tell you what each represents. Write the correct answer after each number, as shown below.

1) Main Idea 2) Supporting Idea 3) Detail 2. Ask students to give you an example of each type of idea by calling out words. Write down their suggestion for a main idea. Then solicit a relevant supporting idea followed by a detail. 3. Ask them to describe each word with more detail. Use their suggestions to write a parallel Phrase Power Outline side by side with the original Word Power Outline, thereby demonstrating how to transform words into phrases.

Comprehension Check
Write three phrases on the board in a random order that could be arranged into a 1-2-3 Phrase Power Outline. Ask students to write these on a piece of paper in a 1-2-3 Phrase Power Outline and hold it up when they are finished. Check for comprehension. Practice until students demonstrate proficiency.

Guided Practice
Begin a 1-2-3 Phrase Power Outline on the board, eliciting students to provide the main idea and one or two supporting ideas and related details. Then have students work in pairs to add three more supporting ideas and related details to the list.

Independent Practice
Have students relocate to a computer lab, access the Power Writing Workshop, read the lesson on Phrase Power and complete the activity.

Assessment
Play a game in which students work in threes. One must say a main idea phrase, another a supporting idea phrase, the third a detail phrase. When they have completed the activity, they may leave for lunch, recess, free computer time or go home.