Language Arts - Grade 2 TEKS 2.8A - Developing Vocabulary Through Meaningful/Concrete Experiences by Tiffany Elkins

Category:  Language Arts
Grade Level:  2nd Grade
Objective: 

Language Arts TEKS 2.8A  Reading/vocabulary development.
The student develops an extensive vocabulary  The student is expected to: discuss meanings of words and develop vocabulary through meaningful/concrete experiences.

Music TEKS 2.2A  Creative expression/performance.
The student performs a varied repertoire of music.  The student is expected to: sing or play a classroom instrument independently or in groups.

Behavioral Objective:
The student will discuss the vocabulary in the nursery rhyme Baa, Baa Black Sheep.

Materials: 
Chalkboard, chalk, the nursery rhyme written on poster board, dry erase boards and markers for the whole class, tuned and non-tuned percussion instruments.

Nursery rhyme found at http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Baabaa.shtml.

Baa, Baa Black Sheep  Baa, baa black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, Three bags full. One for my master. One for my dame. But none for the little boy, Who cries in the lane.

Activities: 
Introduce the lesson by asking children what they do when they come to a word they do not know.  Hold a short class discussion on ways to figure out the meanings of words and the importance of building your vocabulary.  Have the students choral read Baa, Baa Black Sheep from the poster board.  Have the children pick words from the nursery rhyme which are unfamiliar and write what they think the meaning is on their dry erase board.  As a class discuss meanings of the words.  Have the students return to their small groups and come up with a short skit to remember the meaning of the word.  Have the students perform their word in front of the class.  Have the students select one word which is unfamiliar to serve as a steady beat.  Then, have the students select a phrase or group of words from the rhyme.  Also, have the students come up with a word which could be used in place of the unfamiliar word they chose.  This word should not be located in the poem and should be a familiar word so the students can remember the meaning of the unfamiliar word.  Have the groups share with the class.  For instance, the words may be (1) dame, (2) three bags full, (3) woman.

Process:

	Beat 1	Beat 2	Beat 3	Beat 4
High=snap=triangle=glock	wooooooooooooo	oooooooooooooo	mmaaaaaaaaaaa	n
Middle=clap=claves=xylophone	three bags full	three bags full	three bags full	three bags full
Low=pat=hand drum	dame	dame	dame	dame

Evaluation: 
I will observe students discussing vocabulary from the nursery rhyme.  Additionally the students will be given another rhyme to repeat this process in a group of three.  As an informal assessment, I will have the students perform their end result to the class.  I will conduct this assessment with a check list.