Jenny Choi

Lesson Plan

Title Vocabulary Lesson

Overview The lesson will be based on tier 2 words with

student-friendly definitions or synonyms, as
well as some other kind of mental anchor
(GIF). The vocabulary lesson will be
integrated with social studies focused on a
historical figure, Ruby Bridges. The words
will be based on the Ruby Bridges passage.

Connections to the Curriculum CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4

Determine or clarify the meaning of

unknown and multiple-meaning word
and phrases based on grade 3 reading
and content, choosing flexibly from a
range of strategies.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.A

Use sentence-level context as a clue to

the meaning of a word or phrase.

Integrated Areas Social studies

Grade Level Grade 3

Time Approximately 40 minutes

Size Whole class teaching

Materials Needed ● Pencil

● Paper
● Passage and the worksheet

General Goals: What do you want students to ● Students will learn vocabulary terms
learn from this experience? used in social studies
● use context to find the meaning of a
word
Objectives: Students will … ● Students will be able to pronounce,
explain, and give examples.
● Students will be able to collaborate
with their classmates.
● There will be questions asked during
the lesson.
○ Turn and talk
○ Think quietly
○ Write on the paper

Development or Procedure Opening (Before the activity): 5 minutes

- Have students sit on the rug and the
teacher will count down from 10 and
clap in between the numbers.
- After the students get into their
learning spots, have a class discussion.
- “Do you remember on Tuesday
we had a vocabulary lesson?”
- “Does anyone remember the
words we learned”
- Introduce the lesson
- “Today’s lesson will be very
similar to the one that we did
on Tuesday. The only
difference would be you will
get the worksheets after the
vocabulary lesson.”

- Remind the students what kind of

behavior they should have during the
read aloud and pick two students to
tell the teacher
- “Who can explain to me how
to behave during the lesson?”

Body: 15 minutes
The teacher will hand out the paper.
- “Instead of thinking in your head, you
will write your sentence after we read
the word and the definition. Then, you
will share it with the person next to
you.”
- “Instead of telling your own sentence,
you will share your partner’s
 sentence”

Remind the students the rules

- “Can anyone remind us how we did
this?”

Then, the teacher will introduce the Tier 2

words. [bold, integrate, mob, compassion]

I do (teacher): The teacher will read the

definition and the sentence

We do (student and teacher): Read the

definition together

You do (student): make your own sentence

Transition to the table: 1 minute

After the vocabulary lesson, have the students
go back to their seat to do the worksheet.

The worksheet will be provided by the teacher

when students are sitting on the table.

Independent work on the worksheet

(13 minutes)
The worksheet will be about a historical
figure, Ruby Bridges

Closing: 7 minutes
Go over the words in the passage
● Students will raise their hand

Why would we say Ruby Bridges is bold?

In which part of the passage talks about

integration?

Why are the mob so mad at Ruby?

Assessment: How will you know what the ● Checking the students' worksheet that
students have learned from this experience? the teacher has given.

How would you measure the differences
among satisfactory, unsatisfactory and
above satisfactory results?
● Checking if the students paying
attention to the work and focusing on
the work.
● Communicating with the table
groupmates.
○ Gesturing and moving
● Cooperating and participating in the
activity.
● Following requests.
● Asking questions, especially if the
students have confusions.
Satisfactory: student follows along lesson
by contributing and making comments
when the questions are asked during
the powerpoint, effectively
communicating with peers. And
students who are answering the
questions on the worksheet
Unsatisfactory: Student who cannot focus
during the lesson, not communicating
with their peers and unable to answer
the questions on the worksheet