Gingerbread Compare and Contrast English Language Arts Lesson
Gingerbread Books
Think-Pair-Share
Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
In the lesson, I guided the students through completing the Venn Diagram. While filling it out, the students thought critically about how the two Gingerbread books were similar and different.
For the first day, the students at their word-work rotation thought of words that begin with s-blends and then drew a picture to represent that word. The next day, the students looked around the room for those index cards and used tallies to keep track of how many cards they found of each word.
Student examples of words that start with an s-blend
Focused on looking for the important details in a story about temperature data
Partner Work
The students did an exit slip summarizing what they learned about graphing temperature data points, the two cities, or from the stories they wrote. I used the exit slip to determine if we needed to review the material the next day before moving on to the next lesson.
A student's example of graphing
A student's example of the short summary and the exit slip
This lesson was the final day in a three day lesson learning how enslaved Africans came to the early Americas and what their life was like the first year here.
The students inferred what was going on in a picture for the beginning of the lesson and carried that knowledge over into their Social Studies Journal answering questions from the textbook.
The students wrote a 50-100 word summary about what they learned from the lessons. This was used as my summative assessment, because it was the last lesson over a three day period before we moved on to the next chapter.
A student pointing out something interesting in a picture
I am reviewing the questions with the students before partner work
All of the trivia questions connected to the topics the students were researching for their Black History Month Presentation.
I used the final question as a formative assessment. At the end of the trivia game, I witnessed who had the most points by answering the most questions correctly.