Task 3: Critiquing & Developing Lesson Plans
Year 3 Lesson Plan 1 and Year 3 Numeracy Plan 1
Comparison
Both numeracy and literacy lesson plans follow links to the Australian curriculum to map out
the lesson plan.
A template is followed onto which the lesson plans are drafted.
Both lesson plans cover the achievement standards from prior classroom teaching.
Activities are incorporated in each lesson plan with resources required to conduct the
aforementioned activities.
Timing for activities in both lesson plans have not been mentioned.
There are worksheets included in both lesson plans.
Differences
Cross curriculum priorities i.e. Aboriginal and Torres islander histories and culture under
languages; Asian and Australia’s engagement with literature and sustainability under literacy
need to be taken into consideration in Literacy whereas numeracy lesson planning does not
involve any of these.
Literacy lesson planning activities are more extensive compared to Numeracy activities.
The numeracy lesson a defined time cap for the activity whereas the literacy lesson does not
have a time cap mentioned.
The Literacy lesson plan covers 3 strands of the WA English curriculum whereas Numeracy
lesson only relates to one strand and one achievement standard.
Identify 3 elements of each lesson
Numeracy
What was the student learning?
The students were learning how to recognize and find connections between numbers using
addition and subtraction.
How was it taught?
There were a few techniques used in the lesson plan to each the above-mentioned topic
The use of warm up games to get the students in the number zone like counting numbers in
1’s, 2’s 5’s and play the mystery number game.
Visual aids like number line to count and solve real life problem situations.
Inverse related number queries and unifix cubes.
How do we know the student has learnt it?
Each student will be provided worksheets with unifix cubes, number line and a partner to
work with on the numeracy problems.
Make their own inverse numerical problems.
If the students can come up with their own version an addition subtraction real life problem
then they can be evaluated.
Literacy
What was the student learning?
Firstly, know what simple and compound sentences are. Then use these sentences to describe ideas
and form connections between them. They learn to highlight subjects, verbs, conjunctions and
adjectives and use these to create their own sentences.
How was it taught?
The teacher used sentence packages for students to work on in small groups. They shared
their examples of simple and compound sentences with the entire class and explained why
their sentences are simple or compound.
in groups of 3-4, the students performed an activity wherein they recognized parts of
sentences by highlighting the subject, verbs, conjunctions and adjectives in red, blue and
green ink respectively.
Break a compound sentence into two simple sentences.
A group of 3 to 4 students were given a subject, verb, adjective and conjunction card. The
students were asked to use these words to create a compound sentence and then share this
sentence with the whole class and it is judged by class understanding of what a compound
sentence is.
How do we know the student has learnt it?
On the basis of the student’s class activity, their involvement in sentence building in the
group activity can help evaluate their grasp of the concept.
In the activity where students make their own compound sentences with a selection of
subject, verb, adjective and conjunction card they can be assessed if they can form a
sentence correctly by their own peers
Worksheets and classroom journals can also help evaluate the teacher evaluate the student.
Reflect and comment on the lesson from the learners’ perspective.
Numeracy
From a learner’s perspective, making up inverse number related stories might be a bit of a challenge.
Some students may find it hard to generate their own related addition and subtraction facts.
Therefore, practice on already made worksheets along with a partner or in a group using number
line or unifix cube shall help build up confidence in solving problems. Once that achievement level is
attained and a pattern is understood it will be easy to make up self- generated numerical problems
to solve.
Literacy
As a learner, understanding the concept of simple and compound sentences will only be attained if
the student can pick out a subject, verb, adjective and conjunction. That is when they can join two
simple sentences to make a compound sentence. The various class activities mentioned in the
literacy lesson plan are very structured and well thought out to help the learner understand the
concept. Color coding different parts of a sentence, breaking a compound sentence into simple
sentences and joining simple sentence to form a compound sentence as class activity relating to
everyday scenarios will help students recognize types of sentences.
Choose one lesson and suggest how you can make it more connected to students’ real world?
Literacy- Simple and Compound Sentences
To make this lesson more connected to the students, a class activity on everyday life instances can
be performed. Each student can be asked to write a few sentences or a short paragraph on anything
they really enjoy doing for instance it can be coming to school, spending time with their mom and
dad after school, playing the playground with their friends, celebrating their birthday, going to the
beach and so on.
Since the topic to write on is something the students are already familiar with their thoughts and
ideas should flow on the paper. Once the students have penned down their thoughts on the topic of
their choice, the teacher can read their write-ups and can evaluate if the students have progressed
from simple sentences to forming more complex compound sentences using verbs, adjectives,
conjunctions to describe the subject of their paragraph.