Grade: 4/5

Subject: Language Arts

Length of Lesson:

Topic/Theme: Writing

Purpose:

Instructional Objective:Students will learn the concept of the biography and begin a prewriting activity on a classmates biography

Behavioral Objective:Students will write a descriptive paragraph from a time in a classmates life.

Materials, Resources, Methods, Classroom procedures:

• “The Party” by Barbara Reid
• Chalk and chalkboard
• Writing folders
• Construction paper, markers, crayons, tape, glue, and other materials for making invitations
• Methods used - process writing approach

Body of Lesson:

(a) I will ask the students if they know what a biography is and write the different responses on the board.

(b) I will discuss the different characteristics of the biography and show examples . . . .

(c) Next, I will hand out the questions that you have to ask your partner in order to find out different information about them.

(d) Each child with their partner will have to ask each other the questions and fill in the form.

(e) After this is completed, the children will then write a descriptive paragraph based on the information that their partner has given them.

(f) The class will then share their paragraphs with the class until we run out of time.

Assessment:

I will take the different paragraphs and ask these questions - Does the paragraph give us all of the information that the student was provided with? Are they actually writing a biographical paragraph or telling a story about the person? Is the writing style acceptable for their level?

They will also be putting their biographies in their writing portfolio.

This would be an activity that I would do early in the year for people to get to know each other and to get a sense of where students writing skills are.