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Example: The Stormy Sea Rocked The Ship. Or, The Stormy Sea Rocks The Ship.

This lesson plan focuses on practicing grammar, punctuation and listening skills. Students will work in pairs, with one student saying a sentence using a word pair provided and the other student writing down what they heard verbatim. The class will then review the sentences together and discuss correct grammar and punctuation. The goal is for students to gain experience constructing grammatically correct sentences and accurately writing what they hear.

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Example: The Stormy Sea Rocked The Ship. Or, The Stormy Sea Rocks The Ship.

This lesson plan focuses on practicing grammar, punctuation and listening skills. Students will work in pairs, with one student saying a sentence using a word pair provided and the other student writing down what they heard verbatim. The class will then review the sentences together and discuss correct grammar and punctuation. The goal is for students to gain experience constructing grammatically correct sentences and accurately writing what they hear.

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Lesson Plan #2 – Writing

Title: Listening and Punctuation and Grammar, oh my!

Objectives: In this lesson, the participants will:


1. gain practice in constructing sentences with appropriate grammar and
punctuation.
2. gain practice in listening closely in order to accurately write what was said.
3. demonstrate how to write and punctuate what was said in an accurate manner.
4. demonstrate ability to recognize if what was dictated and written is indeed
grammatically correct.

Session Time: 50-60 minutes

Equipment: Chalk board or dry erase board or large post-it. Chalk, dry erase markers,
or markers.

Materials:
12 white 3” X 5” cards, each with a noun and verb as follows:

goose, honk sports car, race newspaper, appear advertising, sell


mouse, squeal grass, grow art, suggest water, relax
fire, heat snow, play lamp, cast sea, rock

(Example: The stormy sea rocked the ship. Or, The stormy sea rocks the ship.)

You will also need 12 blank 3 x 5 cards.

Methods: Guided discussion, role-playing, interactive participation

Procedure
Prior to doing this activity, students need to be aware of sentence construction and
subject/verb agreement. They may use singular or plural, or past/present/future
tenses. And remember: the writer writes only what he or she hears, so it is important
that the speaker speak clearly.

Activity
Partner up!

Partner #1: Take a 3 x 5 card from the Stack #1 (with words).


Using the word or words on the card, create a sentence with appropriate punctuation
and grammar. Do not write it down. Turn to your partner and say the sentence. You
may include punctuation where you think it is appropriate. But you can say the
sentence only once.
Partner #2: take a blank card from Stack #2. Write the sentence exactly as it is said to
you. Include whatever punctuation your partner has indicated. You may add whatever
punctuation you think is appropriate. Then, write it on the board or large post-it note at
the front of the room.

If time allows, switch roles and do it again.

As a group, we will then look at all the sentences and discuss them in terms of correct
grammar and punctuation. What have you learned?

Conclusion:
Provide an opportunity for students to discuss what they learned. Students may find
that it is sometimes difficult to accurately write down something someone else has said.
They may also find that they had to consider whether to add punctuation, and whether
there was subject/verb agreement.

Extension: Students, as a group, can write a paragraph using all the sentences. Since
they will have to come up with additional sentences, transitions, ideas, etc. for the
paragraph to make sense, it is a good small group collaborative writing activity for a
small group.

Note: This lesson is included in the workshop, Grammar Woes? Don’t Axe me, I
can’t never remember them rules! in the SIPDC Catalog of Professional
Development Opportunities.

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