How do you describe a jellyfish? Individuals write adjectives for Nomura's jellyfish, take notes, and check understanding with a formative assessment. Notes include the definition for adjectives, guiding questions to help writers identify adjectives, and information about articles. The lesson also includes a great article about jellyfish that teachers can use to pair with reading instruction to identify key ideas/details and organization. 

Concepts

Grammar, parts of speech, adjectives

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Extend instruction by having pupils examine and reflect on their writing and use of adjectives; if needed, have them revise their writing 
• Use the ending formative assessment as an exit ticket for class

Classroom Considerations

• Learners need prior knowledge of nouns and pronouns for the lesson
• Projector and transparencies that the lesson requires may be out of date; teachers may want to make copies instead

Pros

• Contains copy of notes for direct instruction
• Provides answer key to formative assessment

Cons

Common Core

L.6.1.a L.7.1.a L.8.1.a