The teacher will record findings in the assessment notebook. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Teacher Questioning: (List two indicative questions under each heading). Higher Order Questions: Why did the rabbit run away? How can we show people we love them? Order Questions: What will you say in the letter to your mom? Which sentence do you think goes first? Language / Literacy Opportunities: (State what language development will take place and the literacy opportunities in the lesson) Vocabulary: Valentine’s Day, decorate, love, kind, presents, card, friend, February, flowers, hug. Literacy: the children will develop literacy through the completion of the two written tasks. They will sequence sentences into the correct order. They will write a short letter to their parents for Valentine’s Day. (1st and 2nd class) the children in infants will develop literacy through copying three sentences from the whiteboard onto their heart template which they will decorate it. Content of Lesson: Methodologies/ Teaching Strategies Lesson Introduction: Talk and The teacher will introduce the lesson through telling the children that we will be Discussion: writing letters to someone we love. listening, The teacher will play a literacy game with the children based on adjectives. questioning, brainstorming, pair, Lesson Development: share. The teacher will model writing a letter on the whiteboard for the children. The teacher will ask the children if we can think of ten words associated with St Valentine’s Day. We will use this vocabulary in our letters. Learning: The children in 1st and 2nd class will begin the first draft of their letters. group work. The teacher will then model writing on the whiteboard for junior and senior infants. Active She will write three simple sentences. love you’, you for loving me’, ‘I ‘thank ‘Happy Learning: Valentine’s Day’. hands on The teacher will then distribute the hearts the children in infants will decorate the experience. hearts and complete their writing. Skills through Content:
The teacher will record findings in the assessment notebook. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Teacher Questioning: (List two indicative questions under each heading). Higher Order Questions: Why did the rabbit run away? How can we show people we love them? Order Questions: What will you say in the letter to your mom? Which sentence do you think goes first? Language / Literacy Opportunities: (State what language development will take place and the literacy opportunities in the lesson) Vocabulary: Valentine’s Day, decorate, love, kind, presents, card, friend, February, flowers, hug. Literacy: the children will develop literacy through the completion of the two written tasks. They will sequence sentences into the correct order. They will write a short letter to their parents for Valentine’s Day. (1st and 2nd class) the children in infants will develop literacy through copying three sentences from the whiteboard onto their heart template which they will decorate it. Content of Lesson: Lesson Introduction: The teacher will introduce the lesson through telling the children that we will be writing letters to someone we love. The teacher will play a literacy game with the children based on adjectives. Lesson Development: The teacher will model writing a letter on the whiteboard for the children. The teacher will ask the children if we can think of ten words associated with St Valentine’s Day. We will use this vocabulary in our letters. The children in 1st and 2nd class will begin the first draft of their letters. The teacher will then model writing on the whiteboard for junior and senior infants. She will write three simple sentences. ‘I love you’, ‘thank you for loving me’, ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’. The teacher will then distribute the hearts the children in infants will decorate the hearts and complete their writing. Methodologies/ Teaching Strategies Talk and Discussion: listening, questioning, brainstorming, pair, share. Learning: group work. Active Learning: hands on experience. Skills through Content:
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