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Nora Neumann Lesson Title: Idioms Erdenheim Elementary Grade Level: 5th Grade Time: 40 Minute Lesson

** 1. **** Pre-Instructional Planning ** This is a forty minute lesson planned for the 5thd grade. It is part of a two week lesson that will teach students about one of the elements of figurative language the idiom.

a. Planning Team: This lesson was designed by Judy High and Nora Neumann. b. Student Group: As stated this is a 5th grade lesson regarding idioms. The class contains 23 students. c. Lesson Title: Idioms d. PA K-12 Academic Standards – Speaking & Listening 1.6 e. AASL 21st Century Reading/Information Literacy Standards - Inquire, Think Critically, and Gain Knowledge Skills 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.7, 1.3.1 Pursue personal and aesthetic growth – 4.1.1

** 2. **** Objectives: ** As a result of today’s lesson 5th grade students will be able state the definition of an idiom and give one example of an idiom.

3. ** Materials: ** Idiom Cards//, Raining Cats and Dogs: A collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle// <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//the Funny Bones of Young People// by Will Moses 4. ** Lesson Activities ** : a. ** Introduction: ** Librarian greets students at the door “Hello boys and girls. Welcome to the library. <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Follow me to the story carpet”. ** b. **** Developmental Activities: ** <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. “Hello and how is your day going? Language can be very beautiful. It also can be very funny. Does anyone <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">know what this means? Hold up corresponding idiom card with ‘swallowed it hook, line and sinker’ written on <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">it? Or ‘skeletons in your closet’? Or ‘in a pickle’? <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. These are idioms. Does anyone know what an idiom is”? Discuss. <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. “No one really knows the exact history of idioms. They are believed to come from various cultures and <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">writers. For example the idiom bury the hatchet is thought to come from the American Indians. Writers such as <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Shakespeare and Aesop were also thought to have made up idioms when they were writing”. <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. “When you think about the literal meaning of an idiom it can be very funny. If I say you have egg on your <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">face does that really mean you have egg all over your face”? No of course not. But what if English wasn’t your <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">first language. What would you think some of those idioms meant? In the doghouse might really mean that you <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">were in the doghouse”. <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">5. Today we are going to read the book //Raining Cats and Dogs: A Collection of Irresistible Idioms// <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People.// This book was written and illustrated <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">by Will Moses. <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">6. Read idioms in the book asking students if they know what the idiom means before telling them the <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">meaning. For example, ‘make a beeline’. “Does that really mean that a bee is making a line down the center of <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a road”? ** c. **** Closure ** <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">7. “Who can tell me what an idiom is? Do we take idioms literally? Idioms are very fun and we’re going to <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">continue the fun next week when we do an idiom activity”. <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">8. “Now you may go and select your books”.

d. ** Students Assessment Activities ** – Assessment is ongoing at the beginning of the lesson and at the <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">end of the lesson during the closure. I am seeing who responds to the questions that are asked.

<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Bibliography <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Moses, Will. //Raining Cats and Dogs: A collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People.// USA: Penguin Group, 2008.