5E Lesson Plan Template

Your name or Brooke Williams

Cooperating
teacher name
(if needed)

Date(s) taught November 8, 2023

Subject English Language Arts

Grade level 2nd Grade

Materials Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer

Pencils
Chromebooks (one per student)
Internet
Google Classroom

Standards ALSDE Standards:

(State and
ISTE ELA21.2.R4 Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely,
Standards for and ethically for research and writing, both individually and
Students) collaboratively.
ELA21.2.R5 Utilize the writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit,
and publish writings in various genres.
ELA21.2.42 Write an opinion piece about a topic or text with
details to support the opinion, using transitional words and
providing a sense of closure.
ELA21.2.43 Write complete sentences demonstrating knowledge
of punctuation conventions.
ELA21.2.44 With prompting and support, compose and develop a
well-organized paragraph with a topic sentence, details to support,
and a concluding sentence.
ELA21.2.45 Demonstrate understanding of standard English
language conventions when writing.

ISTE Standards:

6. Creative Communicator: Students communicate clearly and

express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the

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 platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to
their goals.

Objectives Students will compose an opinion paragraph on if they think students should be
allowed to bring pets to school.
Students will type their paragraphs into a Google Document using Google
Classroom.

Differentiation The assignment will be modeled for the students and completed by the whole
Strategies group prior to independent practice.
Students will be provided with prompting and support from the teacher by
providing a sentence stem for the topic sentence.
Students will be able to utilize help from their peers if needed.

The 5 Es

E Description

Engagement Have students play the “Would You Rather…” game. Call out different choices.
Assign one side of the room to one choice and the opposite side to the other
choice. Have students go to the side of the room that represents their choice.
Some examples may include:
-Would you rather choose vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream?
- Would you rather go to the beach or to the mountains?
-Would you rather play video games or play outside?

Engagement Complete an informal assessment. Ask students to give a thumbs up if they

Assessment noticed that all the students chose the same things and a thumbs down if they
chose different choices.

Exploration Discuss how the choices they made were their opinion. Ask students if everyone
chose the same thing. Discuss how the choices students made were their
opinions, and their opinions can differ.
Tell students they will listen to a read-aloud about opinions.
Play Stella Writes an Opinion on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/Yzmweg8laRU?si=O0rVVFH81xpe56c0

Exploration Discuss the story. Ask students what things an opinion paragraph needs to have
Assessment based on the read-aloud. Have students turn and talk to a neighbor and answer

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 E Description

the question first. Then, pull equity sticks and have a few students answer out
loud.

Explanation Introduce the activity to students. Tell them they will write an opinion paragraph
like the ones they’ve already written. They will be determining whether they think
students should or should not be allowed to bring pets to school.
Students will discuss some reasons as a whole group why students should bring
pets to school and why they should not.
Using the Hovercam, model for students on a graphic organizer, how to turn their
opinion into a statement by restating the question. Then, model how to begin
each reason with a transitional word such as first, next, last, etc.
Pass out a graphic organizer to each student and have them complete it with
their own opinion, reasons to support their opinion, and a conclusion.

Explanation Review student graphic organizers to check if they have an opinion, three
Assessment reasons to support it, and a conclusion.

Elaboration Students will use their graphic organizer to copy into paragraph format. Students
will type their paragraphs into a Google Document they will access via a Google
Classroom Assignment.
Review how to be a digital citizen with students.
Model for students how to log on to Google Classroom and access their
assignment. Then model how students should type out their assignments in
paragraph format.

Evaluation Opinion 1 2 3 4
Writing
Rubric

Topic No topic Topic Topic Topic

Sentence sentence. sentence does sentence sentence
not state somewhat clearly states
opinion. states opinion. opinion.

Supporting No reasons One reason Two reasons Three or more

Details included to included to included to reasons
support support support included to
opinion. opinion. opinion. support
opinion.

Closing No closing Closing Closing Closing

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Sentence sentence. sentence does sentence sentence

not restate somewhat clearly
opinion. restates restates
opinion. opinion.

Transitional No transitional One Two Three or more

Words words were transitional transitional transitional
used. word was words were words were
used. used. used.

References
Bybee, R.W. et al. (1989). Science and technology education for the elementary years:
Frameworks for curriculum and instruction. Washington, D.C.: The National
Center for Improving Instruction.

Bybee, R. W. (1997). Achieving Scientific Literacy: From Purposes to Practices.

Oxford: Heinemann.

National Research Council. (1999). Inquiry and the national science education
standards: A guide for teaching and learning. Washington, D.C.: National
Academy Press.

Polman, J.L. (2000). Designing project-based silence: Connecting learners through

guided inquiry. New York: Teachers College Press.

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