Singular Pronouns Mrs. Davis’ First Grade ELL 2 Group Westside Elementary Rogers, AR October 14, 2011 Susan Hensley Rogers Public Schools
The purpose of the GANAG structure To give students the opportunity to actively use the nine high-yield strategies: (2) Identifying Similarities and Differences (3) Summarizing and Note Taking (4) Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition (5) Homework and Practice (6) Nonlinguistic Representations (7) Cooperative Learning (8) Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback (9) Generating and Testing Hypotheses (10) Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers
Goal: Describe pictures with a simple sentence using singular pronouns (8) Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
Student Notebooks and Folders
Student Goal Sheets Goal= Use Common Pronouns Score Yourself
Access Prior Knowledge: Review previous lesson- Pronoun T-Chart (10) Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers
New Information: MODELING You can use a pronoun in place of a noun. The elephant is walking. It is walking. (6) Nonlinguistic Representations
Application: Buddy Writing- Select a picture in a magazine and write a sentence describing it. Write the sentence again using a pronoun.
(5) Homework and Practice (7) Cooperative Learning
(5) Homework and Practice (7) Cooperative Learning
(5) Homework and Practice (7) Cooperative Learning
One-on-One Conferring (4) Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Scoring to the Standards
Generalize the Goal: Revisit the Goal- Score Yourself Again
Student Use of the High Yield Strategies
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