Lesson Plan : 

Caption Writing

Teacher
Name:
 S. A. Haldoko

Grade:  Grade 3 of High

Subject:  English

 Caption writing using comic strips and an enrichment activity of

Topic:
writing captions for wolves in their natural environment.
 Caption-writing for comic strips requires application of prior-
taught skills of using clues from pictures, from a character's words
Content: or actions and from situations to make inferences for setting,
characters and the problem. The students must apply these skills to
write captions for mostly wordless pictures.
 By applying the inferencing skills needed to write captions, the
students will raise their reading comprehension level and will
Goals: remediate or enrich their sentence writing skills depending on the
extent to which they use descriptive language and correct
puntuation for quotations.
 The students will receive increased responsibililty for using
inferencing skills to write correctly constructed captions for comic
Objectives:
strip frames and photographs of wolves in their natural
environment.
 1) Mutts comic strip 2) Baby Blues comic strip 3) Photographs of
wolves 4) SmartBoard with document camera 5) Six "Post-It" notes
for each student 6) Baby Blues comic on large paper 7) One index
Materials:
card per student 8) "Please stop by!" signs 9) Flower display
reference tools for quotation vocabulary words 10) "Words I Use
When I Write" individualized dictionaries
 The students will vote on the SmartBoard as follows: All comic
Introduction: strips will most likely have... a)the same number of frames
b)talking bubbles c)thinking bubbles d)hand-drawn pictures
 The students will view a "Mutts" comic strip with three frames on
the smartboard using the document camera. They will review use
Development: of pictures as most important source in comic strips to infer
setting, characters and the problem. The teacher will "think-aloud"
her method to write a caption for the first frame.
 The students will turn to partner in a "Think-Share-Pair" model to
think of a caption for the second frame. A student will write it on
Practice: the board. The students will write a caption for the third frame on
the index card. Group leaders will collect the cards. The teacher
will write on of the captions on the board.
  Students who finish early will circle words possibly misspelled,
Accommodations: color the comic strip or work on writing captions for photographs of
wolves to address non-fiction science content.
 The students will use "Please Stop By!" signs to signal need for
Checking For assistance as teacher circulates around the classroom to monitor
Understanding: understanding of the directions and the quality of the students'
sentences.
 Repeat "Think-Share-Pair" of favorite caption completed. A few
students share answers with the class. "Think-Share-Pair" is
Closure:
repeated to answer, "What skill practiced today will help us with
our reading?"
 1) Index card for each student for "Mutts" caption 2)
Student/teacher conferences 3) The students will finish and correct
Evaluation: their captions in a follow-up lesson. Both the "Post-Its" and the
edited sentences for "Baby Blues" will be evaluated. 4) Challenge
work of wolf photghaph captions