Grammar assignment

Grade: 1st grade

Subject: English Language Arts

Length of Lesson: 1 hour

Lesson Overview/Rationale: Students will strengthen their use of English

language by identifying and correcting the grammar mistakes presented on the
worksheet. Students will work in groups of four.

Curriculum Framework/Standard: Michigan K-12 Standards English

Language Arts:

“Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. a.

Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word,
capitalization, ending punctuation)” (Page 15).

Learning Objectives:
● Students will be able to identify punctuational errors.
● Students will demonstrate what they’ve learned about punctuation and recognize
how it helps carry the precise meaning of a sentence.
● Students will be able to identify capitalization errors.
● Students will identify when to capitalize certain letters.

Technology Uses:
● The students will watch a video on the computer about capitalization and
punctuation before completing the activity.

Materials:
● Paper
● Pencil
 ● Access to a computer
●

Procedure:

● Teacher will open a video on the computer for the whole class to watch. Link-
https://youtu.be/BNog8C2FRqU
● Students will get into groups of four
● Teacher will pass out a worksheet to each student. The worksheet will have four
sentences that have capitalization and punctuation errors that the students will
need to fix.
● Since there are four sentences total student 1 and 2 will fix the capitalization
errors on all four sentences while student 3 and 4 will correct the punctuational
errors on all four sentences.
●

Assessment:
● I checked for understanding during the activity by looking at their worksheets
and seeing if they have identified the capitalization and punctuational errors.
● The students will be evaluated on how well they truly understand grammar by
correcting the mistakes that are presented on the worksheet.
● Students will be graded on whether they’ve found the errors and corrected them.

Beginning Developing Exemplary Score

Participation 0pts 5pts 10pts

Students did not Students Students worked
participate in the partially well together to
activity or work completed the complete the
together as a activity but did activity.
group. not work well as
 a group.

Demonstration 0pts 5pts 10pts

Students did not Students Students
demonstrate demonstrated demonstrated
learning or partial full
understanding of understanding of understanding of
punctuation and punctuation and punctuation and
capitalization. capitalization. capitalization.

Evaluation 0pts 5pts 10pts

Students did not Students Students
answer any answered answered all
questions questions questions
correctly. partially correct. correctly.

Total points: 30 points