Instructional Task |
Learning Objectives |
Student Work |
Assessment Tools |
As a group, the students identify the similarities and differences between questions and exclamations, including end punctuation, usage, and capitalization. |
With assistance from peers and the teacher, the students will be able to identify the characteristics of questions and exclamations, including capitalization, punctuation, and usage, with 90-100% accuracy. | Venn Diagram: Students place sentence strips in the correct area to identify the characteristics of questions and exclamations, including punctuation, usage, and capitalization. | Informal Observation: The teacher observes the students place the punctuation, usage, and capitalization characteristics of questions and exclamations in the correct are on the Venn diagram. |
In a small group setting, the students participate in a SMART Board activity in which individual students must identify a sentence as either a question or exclamation and write the corresponding punctuation. |
With assistance from the teacher, the students will be able to identify sentences as either questions or exclamations and write the corresponding punctuation with 95% accuracy. | SMART Board Activity: Students write the correct punctuation for sentences displayed on the SMART board. | Pre-Assessment: Students complete Grammar Book page GR18 to place the correct punctuation, question marks and exclamation points, on the sentences. |
| Informal Observation: The teacher observes the students writing the correct punctuation for sentences during the SMART Board activity. | |||
Independently, students correct the punctuation of given sentences and construct a question and an exclamation for homework. |
Independently, the students will be able to correct the punctuation of questions and exclamations with 90-100% accuracy. |
Students rewrite sentences with the correct punctuation for homework on Grammar Book page GR19 and complete Writing Questions and Exclamations Homework Page. |
Post-Assessment: Questions and Exclamations Rubric is used to assess the students’ work in: Capitalization, Punctuation, Letter Formation, and Sentence Generation. |