Wk:4 Assignment # 2 Simple ELA lesson

Grade level:  1

Common core standards and learning outcomes:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1. b

Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.

Students will learn how to use collective nouns, additional nouns and verbs in context.

Instructional activities:

·         Students will identify the type of noun on Turtle Diary.

·         This is a racing game. The racing cars run on the power of your correct answers. The speed of your car increases when you answer correctly. The faster you answer, the faster your car goes! In case you answer incorrectly, your speed will decrease. The player who answers correctly with speed will win the race.

·         Types of nouns on Turtle Diary

            https://www.turtlediary.com/game/identifying-the-types-of-noun.html

Assessment:

Students will be assessed the amount of correct answers, they received by the end of the game.

Debriefing:

In this lesson’s students learned to identify what type of noun is the given word. E.g. collective noun, common noun, gerund noun, proper noun. This game gave students a challenge as well as elements of fantasy. This game helps students to learn the different nouns which are a part of speech used in traditional language.

What cognitive skills do this game help to cultivate? This game helps to cultivate attention, and visual processing. In addition, this game helps students to mentally visualize a concept.

What new literacies skills do this game help to cultivate?

This game helps students to cultivate computer-operating skills. In addition, students leaned about the different types of nouns; which are parts of speech. The concept of new literacies does not change in the skills required for literacy but adds a new dimension to the elements of literacy. (Leu  et  al.,  2004;  ICT  Literacy  Panel,  2007).