1. Structural Elements of Limericks
Mrs. Grayson’s 4th Grade
Old Wire Elementary
Mrs. Goff, Literacy Facilitator

2. Unit Preparation
Prior to beginning Unit 3, Mrs. Grayson did the following:
Identified the standards to be taught- (she looked at the unit 3 pacing guide)
She asked herself-
“What will my students know and be able to do better at the end of this unit?”
3. She gathered and studied the resources in order to prepare the daily lessons.

3. Plan Daily Lessons:
Once Mrs. Grayson had the big picture for the unit, she began planning daily lessons.
The standard she based this lesson’s goal on is:
RI. 4.5 Explain the major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
The resources she selected for the lesson are:
Copies of limericks from the internet
Interactive Notebook

4. A= access prior knowledge N= new information A= application
GANAG is a daily lesson structure that allows teachers to plan for student use of research based instructional strategies.
G= goal
A= access prior knowledge
N= new information
A= application
G= generalize the goal

5. GANAG provides students the opportunity to actively use the nine high-yield strategies:
(2) Identifying Similarities and Differences
(7) Cooperative Learning
(8) Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
(3) Summarizing and Note Taking
(4) Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
(9) Generating and Testing Hypotheses
(5) Homework and Practice
(10) Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers
(6) Nonlinguistic Representations

6. Goal: I can tell the structural elements of a limerick.
Students wrote the goal in their notebooks and scored both their understanding and effort.
(4) Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
(8) Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

7. Access Prior Knowledge
The pictures illustrated class work from ecosystem and electric circuit lessons.
Mrs. Grayson displayed pictures from previous lessons on her SmartBoard. Students talked about what they noticed with their partner.
(6) Nonlinguistic Representations
(7) Cooperative Learning

8. New Information
Students took notes in their notebook, listing the parts of a limerick.
(3) Summarizing and Note Taking

9. Mrs. Goff displayed limericks from the internet
Mrs. Goff displayed limericks from the internet. The students identified the limerick as a system. They used the notes in their notebooks to identify the parts of the limericks.
Systems Analysis: viewing something as a system.
I identify something as a system.
I state all the parts of the system and how they work.
They discovered the “rhythm” of a limerick by reading them aloud.

10. Application
Systems Analysis: viewing something as a system.
I identify something as a system.
I state all the parts of the system and how they work.
I change one part of the system to see what would happen.
Make a conclusion about how the one change made the system change.
Repeat the process.
The students worked in groups. Each group was given a limerick and asked to make a change.
(10) Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers

11. The group shared their changes, and the conclusions they made.

12. Revisit the Goal
The students revisited the goal and scored their understanding and effort at the end of the lesson.

13. The students filled up their unit 3 objective score sheet, so they were working on the back of the sheet.

14. The next day...

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