LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON PLAN- SPELLING

AEROBICS
Instructor Name:
Colleen Trumble
Class:
Dr. Hamman Elementary School Grade 3/4
9:15-9:45 am
Lesson Title:
Spelling Aerobics

Tech Requirements: (list all materials you might need. Include special
materials like balloons and also basic classroom materials like chalkboards).
• The weeks spelling list for grade three and four.
• Whiteboard and markers
Administrative Notes: (if relevant, include any information needed to share
with the teacher or the class).
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General Outcome:
• Create oral, print, and visual texts and enhance the clarity and artistry
of communication
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Specific Learning Objectives:

• Students will spell out the weekly spelling words using physical actions

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KSA’S:
1)How contextual variables affect teaching and learning
2) The structure of the Alberta Education system
3) The purposes of the Guide to Education and programs of study for
subject disciplines you teach
4) Subject Disciplines you teach
5) All students can learn albeit at different rates in different ways
7) Student’s need for physical, social, cultural and psychological
security
8) Importance of respecting student’s human dignity
9) There are many approaches to teaching and learning
11) The purposes of student assessment
16) The importance of guiding your actions with a personal, overall
vision of the purpose of teaching
17) You are expected to achieve the teaching quality standard

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Assessment:
• Instructor will assess students by making notes of which students seem
to have difficulties with the actions made up for the letters in certain
words
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ACTIVITIES
Name of Exercise: Expected Length: (in
Spelling Aerobics minutes)
30 minutes
Purpose: (why is this exercise included in the lesson)
To teach the students how to spell their weekly spelling list by including
movement which encourages memorization.
Detailed instructions: (how will this exercise be explained to the group)
1. Choose a quizmaster (instructor to start out). Quizmaster will decide on 3
letters no-one is allowed to say. Ex. i, s, t
2. Instead of saying the letter, a suitable action is decided upon for each
(salute, head scratch, jump, clap, twist)
3. Quizmaster now asks the class to spell the word together.
4. Whenever players come to outlawed letters, they must perform the
action instead of speaking the letter.
5. Spelling words for grade three- could, would, should, mother, father,
baby, child, children, boy, girl, family, saw.
6. Spelling words for grade 4's- quick, quickly, quit, quiet, question, Quebec,
quarter, quail, square, squeeze, queen, squirrel, quack, cheque, mosquito
7. Spelling words- Bonus words- Pangaea, Fossil, dinosaur, Albertosaurus.

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Observations/Comments/Reflections