Word Learning Artifact

This artifact is a lesson that was created and delivered in a Fourth Grade Language Arts and Reading Class at Palm Spring Elementary School. The lesson was aligned with the Language Arts Florida Standards. The standards based content area objectives were presented and learned through literacy based strategies and activities which supported that understanding word meaning is essential to reading success. When developing this artifact I took into account the Gardner's theory about the multiple intelligences since I use a wide variety of strategies in this lesson such as music, cooperative learning, multimedia, inner reflection, graphic organizers, and technology based on the idea that individuals learn differently, at different rates, and by different methods, so they possess distinct forms of intelligence. Reading and writing activities are dependent on
I help them to develop effective word-learning strategies such as how to use dictionaries and other reference aids, how to use information about word parts to figure out the meanings of words in texts, and how to use context clues to determine word meanings. They could learn that to know a word well means knowing what it means, how to pronounce it, and how its meaning changes in different contexts. Students were stimulated to construct sentences providing clear examples of word meaning in context. This assignment mainly addresses the Reading Competency and Instructional Delivery and Facilitation indicators since I did relate and integrate the subject matter with life experiences. I sequenced the lesson and concepts to ensure coherence and required prior knowledge. The class was delivered in an engaging and challenging way using higher-order questioning techniques, applying different instructional strategies and resources, including appropriate