TEKS Based Lesson Plan
Subject: 3rd Grade Writing
Weeks: First Nine Weeks Group 1
Unit of Study: Personal Narrative
Essential Questions:
• What can writing be used for?
• How can writing help us explore how we feel?
• In what ways can writing be fun?
TEKS/Essence Statements:
• 3.19 (A) write about important personal experiences
Critical Skills/Postsecondary Goals:
This section needs to be completed based on the students in your class.
Instruction/Classroom Activities:
Small Group Instruction:
• The class will discuss how they felt about coming back to school.
• The teacher will introduce and read the book “The Kissing Hand” by Audrey Penn, the teacher
will present students with a “feelings” chart and pictures of feeling words. The class will discuss
how the main character felt during the story.
• The class will then revisit their feelings about coming back to school. For a week, the students will
feel out a feelings chart about how they feel each day at school and at home. At the end of the
week, the teacher will present the students with a Venn diagram. The students will complete the
Venn diagram of their feelings at home and at school.
• Each student will be given a circle and instructed to write their names and to draw a face that
represents how they are feeling.
• Students will then complete sentences with pre-made sentence strips that say _________ came to
school today and felt ________ and ___________. Students can either write the words or place
picture representations to represent how they feel.
Stations/Centers:
• Listening Station: “The Kissing Hand” book. Students can re-read or listen to the story at their
own pace.
• Sequencing Station. Students will be given visual representations of events that occurred in the
story to color, cut, and glue them in order.
• The Kissing Hand Poem Station. Students will be given a prepared poem about the Kissing Hand.
The students will cut out the poem. The students will glue poem in the middle of a heart.
Students will then paint their hands and place their handprints on each side of the poem.
• Math Station. Students will be given hearts and number cards. Students will recognize the
number by counting hearts to match.
• Name recognition in pocket chart (this can be done at circle time or morning meeting). Each
student’s name will be written in different colors on a pre-cut hand glued to larger heart. Sentence
strips will be made to say, This is _______’s hand. Teacher will read the sentence for each
student. Have students repeat. Students will begin to recognize classmates’ names.
• Play dough Station. Give students heart cookie cutters, rolling pins, and Playdough tools.
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TEKS Based Lesson Plan
Individualized Communication Planning: This section needs to be completed based on the
individualized communication needs of the students in your class.
Differentiated Tasks:
Level 3
The students will determine
how they are feeling by sorting
and organizing pictures and
words into Venn Diagrams and
then writing/typing a new
version of the sentence and
summary.
Level 2
The students will identify their
feelings by revising text/visuals,
manipulating items and pictures
from a completed activity, and
pointing to different features of
materials.
Level 1
The student will explore pictures
by maintaining focus as teacher
discusses different feelings. The
student will show some response
when shown the pictures.
Materials/Resources: sentence strips. The Kissing Hand. Feelings chart. Paint. Colors. Markers.
Worksheets. Sequencing pictures. Pre-made sequencing pictures of The Kissing Hand story.
Assessment Strategies: This section needs to be completed based on the strategies appropriate for the
students in your class.
IEP Connections: This section needs to be completed based on the IEPs documented in the students’
ARDs in your class.
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