STEPP Lesson Plan Form
Teacher: Ms. Lilley
School: Lincoln Middle School
Date: 4-14-2015
Grade Level: 8th grade
Title: Estar With Conditions & Feelings
Content Area: Spanish
Lesson #:_1_ of _1_
Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards directly from the standard)
Standard: 1. Communication in Languages Other Than English (Novice-Low)
1. Communicate about very familiar topics (written or oral) using isolated words and high
frequency phrases (interpersonal mode)
2. Comprehend isolated learned words and high- frequency phrases (written or oral) on very
familiar topics (interpretive mode)
(Colorado Academic Standards: World Languages, Colorado Department of Education,
http://www.cde.state.co.us/sites/default/files/documents/coworldlanguages/documents/world_langua
ges_standards_adopted_12.10.09.pdf)
Understandings: (Big Ideas)
Students will understand and be able to properly use the verb, estar, to express conditions and feelings.
Students will also be introduced to useful vocabulary for conditions and feelings. Furthermore, students
will be able to better express themselves as well as describe the state of objects and other people.
Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select
applicable questions from standard)
Can the student explain how to use estar?
Can the student explain what estar is used to express?
Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)
I can: Use estar to express a feeling/condition of myself, another person, and an object.
This means:
I can properly conjugate the verb, estar, and match the ending with the subject.
I can understand and properly use the appropriate vocabulary words for feelings/conditions.
List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with each assessment)
For the last activity, the students will do a puzzle and match the vocabulary words with their meanings
in English as an informal assessment/practice session.
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Planned Lesson Activities
Name and Purpose of Lesson
Estar with Conditions & Feelings
The purpose of this lesson is to teach how one can use the verb, estar, to express
conditions and feelings as well as to introduce some vocabulary of conditions/feelings.
Approx. Time and Materials
25-30 minutes
Whiteboard, puzzle packets for each student, note organizer for the vocabulary words
(for each student)
Anticipatory Set
5 min
Procedures
Closure
Differentiation
-
Explanation of the verb, estar, and what it is used for: to express feelings and
conditions
- Review of how to conjugate estar
5 minutes- explanation of estar used for conditions/feelings & conjugation review
10-15 minutes- Introduction of each vocabulary word
 Ask if students know/have an idea of what the word is
 Have a student come up and draw a visual representation of the
term
 The students all write in the vocab word, the English equivalent,
and a visual representation in one of the boxes on their note
organizer
10 minutes- Students work on and complete vocabulary word puzzle
 Check to see if students completed the puzzle correctly
The closure of this lesson will be to check the students’ puzzles and ask if they have any
questions or if they don’t completely understand any of the vocabulary words. To check
for understanding, I will ask several of the students, in Spanish, how they are or to make
a statement about an object or another person using estar and one of the vocabulary
words.
To modify, I will go around and help while the students are working on their puzzles. I
will ask if they have any questions or are having a hard time with anything and will
explain further.
To extend, while the students work on the puzzle, I will go around and ask those who
finish first or are having no problem with the puzzle to tell me, in Spanish, how they are
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and to describe various people and objects in the classroom using estar and the
conditions/feelings vocabulary terms.
Assessment
I will know by their participation when we go over the vocabulary words and by how
well they are able to complete the puzzle and use estar with the vocabulary words orally
when asked.
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Post Lesson Reflection
1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize assessment data to justify
your level of achievement)
I certainly covered the vocabulary very well and provided the students with a good
resource to study with. So the students got a very good understanding of the new
vocabulary words, but they were not able to practice using estar with them orally or
with the puzzle because of time constraints.
2. What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would you make if you were to
teach again?
I would break down the vocabulary into two separate lessons: one for conditions and
one for feelings. Going through all of the vocabulary words ended up taking the entire
class period to finish, with no time left to do the puzzle or practice them. I would come
up with a different activity for each of the two sets and then later have the students do
the puzzle to go over both sets before a quiz.
3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice, reteach content, etc.)
Next time, I would have the students tell me how they are in Spanish, using estar with a
condition/feeling vocabulary word. I would have them do/finish their puzzle and work
with each other by asking how each other are and by describing people and objects in
the classroom using estar and the vocabulary. They would have a quiz at the end of class
on the vocabulary words and the conjugations of estar in the present tense.
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