Startalk Fatimah Lesson Plan Template-3 Hamzi Fatimah

Backwards Design Lesson Plan

Lesson plan designer: _Fatimah Hamzi

Reading/ Distinguishing between

Date: 2/28/2017 Theme/Topic:
facts and opinions
Targeted Number
Age Range of
15-17 years Performance Advanced of 50
Learners:
Level: minutes
Definition and Guiding Question
LESSON LEARNING EPISODE

A lesson is defined as a single learning experience A learning episode is defined as a learning
typically lasting no more than sixty to ninety experience that addresses a specific aspect of a
minutes. Learning experiences occur both in the learning target or can-do statement. Learning
classroom and/or in other settings. Longer blocks episodes typically provide a limited amount of
of time will involve several learning episodes and input with time allowed for guided and
lesson plans. independent practice. The amount of time
allotted for a learning episode is approximately
equivalent to the age of the learner and will rarely
be more than twenty minutes.
Questions to Consider Before and During Lesson Planning

Do the activities in the lesson
give students a reason for needing to/wanting to pay attention and be on task?
provide sufficient opportunities for understanding new words before expecting production?
provide multiple, varied opportunities for students to hear new words/expressions used in
highly visualized contexts that make meaning transparent?
provide students with an authentic purpose for using words and phrases?
engage all students (as opposed to just one or two students at a time)?
vary in the level of intensity and the amount of physical movement required?
make the learner, not the teacher, the active participant?
build toward allowing students to demonstrate in meaningful and unrehearsed ways that they
are able to use what they know?
make the best use of instructional time to maximize student learning?
take an appropriate amount of time considering the age of the learner?
STAGE 1: What will learners be able to do with what they know by

the end of this lesson?
DO KNOW
What are the learning targets/can-do What vocabulary, grammatical structures, language
statements for this lesson? chunks, cultural knowledge, and content/
information do learners need to accomplish the
lesson can-do?
1. The learner will be able to identify facts in a Vocabulary building skills

text. By the end of the lesson:
The learner will know the definition of the
word fact.
2. The learner will be able to identify opinions The learner will know various ways through
in a sentence. which facts are presented in a text.
The learner will know ways in which
opinions are packaged in texts.
The learner will know why facts are used in
3. The learner will be able to write brief factual a text and instances when facts are normally
statements. emphasized.
4. The learner will be able to write their own The learner will know what an opinion will.
opinions using simple sentences and apply Grammar and writing skills
different writing styles. By the end of the lesson:
The learner will know different types of
5. The learner be able to read the passage and
factual adjectives.
infer meaning from it.
The learner will know different types of
opinion adjectives that can be used in a
sentence to express someones opinion.
The learner will know occasions when to use
opinions in a text.
The learner will know that opinions are not
always false, they can be true.
STAGE 2: How will learners demonstrate what they can do with what they
know by the end of the lesson?
What will learners do (learning tasks/activities/formative assessments) to demonstrate they can
meet the lesson can-do?
A. Learners demonstrate their understanding by judge whether a sentence is a fact or an opinion.

B. Learners identify all facts and opinions in the handout by groups.
C. Learners explain why the word they identified are factual or opinion.
D. Learners write sentences that have factual or opinion information.
STAGE 3: What will prepare learners to demonstrate what they can do with what they know?
How will you facilitate the learning?

What activities will be used to ensure learners accomplish the lesson can-do?
What will the teacher be doing? What will the students be doing?
Opening Activity
The teacher will play video about facts and opinions for 2 minutes. Time: 5minutes
The teacher recapitulates the last lesson on adjectives by asking learners
questions, then introduces the lesson on fact and opinion. .
The teacher asks the students what they know about the terms fact and
opinion.
Learning Episode
The teacher explains the importance of facts and opinions in writing to the Time:15minutes
students.
The teacher briefly explains cases where opinions at required and facts are
necessary.
The teacher clarifies the facts and opinions and how they can be used in a text
and the importance of distinguishing them in the course of reading for better
comprehension.
The learners to analyze the five samples given to all the thirty students in pairs.
The learner identifies facts and opinions while analyzing their essays, personal
journals and lesson reflective journals from the past and consequently, the
teacher will let the learners share their answers. The teacher will give correct
answers the students after their sharing.
Learning Episode
The teacher gives details on how facts are presented in a text, like the use of Time: 10
minutes
factual adjectives, statistical data, names of real people, and places.
The teacher asks the learners to read the given passages and identify all the facts
they could find and write them down in their notes.
The teacher checks the students' notes and then asks them questions regarding
their notes as they explain to the class.
Learning Episode
The teacher explains how the opinions are presented in a text: the use of opinion Time: 10
minutes
by adjectives, and the use of opinions that are purely reflective of the ideas or
feelings.
The teacher reads some words and asks the students to pick up the words which
can be used to express opinions.
The teacher asks the learners explain their choice of opinion words from what the
teacher has read.
Learning Episode
The teacher divides the whole class into four groups and gives each group a Time: 10
minutes
handout
The learners read the handout and make a list of all facts and opinions in the
handout.
The teacher asks the learner to explain why the words they identified are factual
or opinion.
The teacher reads some statements and asks learners to identify orally whether
they are factual or opinion.
Then the learners are asked to write down all the facts words they hear.
Add additional learning episodes if necessary.
Materials needed for this lesson

Handout contains on:
A. Activity apple facts or opinions.
B. Two short articles of less than 100 words to be read in class.
C. A T-chart bearing examples of opinion adjectives on one side and factual adjectives on the other
side.
D. Laptop, powerpoint, pens, internet to access video, projector, and chalkboard.
Reflection/Notes to Self
* It is projected that the learners will find the lesson interesting and engage at the same time.
* The various activities should be able to help students acquire the reading skill of distinguishing between
facts and opinions, thereby being able to comprehend clearly whatever text they read.
* There is a need for the teacher to guide the learners not just giving them responses.
Note: This Backwards teaching plan/lesson plan is adopted from STARTALK 2016 Lesson Plan Template .

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Backwards Design Lesson Plan

Lesson plan designer: _Fatimah Hamzi

Reading/ Distinguishing between

Definition and Guiding Question

LESSON LEARNING EPISODE

Questions to Consider Before and During Lesson Planning

STAGE 1: What will learners be able to do with what they know by

1. The learner will be able to identify facts in a Vocabulary building skills

A. Learners demonstrate their understanding by judge whether a sentence is a fact or an opinion.

How will you facilitate the learning?

Add additional learning episodes if necessary.

Materials needed for this lesson

A. Activity apple facts or opinions.

B. Two short articles of less than 100 words to be read in class.

D. Laptop, powerpoint, pens, internet to access video, projector, and chalkboard.

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