One of the
hardest things about being a teacher is directing student
engagement to keep them on track. This feat seems almost
unattainable at times, especially when your target audience is a
sixth grade classroom full of sugar-drunk, hormone laden
adolescents (meant with love!). Bringing strong language arts
lessons into the classroom early on will expose young learners to
an array of literary tools and devices, and familiarize them with
using these methods to increase in baseline literacy functionality
and professional development. Around eleven years of age (sixth
grade), many developmental changes begin to rapidly take place,
causing a spike in cognitive capabilities. A common struggle for
this particular age group regarding literacy is in transitioning
the innate literal views of childhood to a much broader
understanding of figurative worlds of language seen commonly in
more advanced
writingand
literature. My lesson encourages exploration by using imagination
and adventure as a vehicle to familiarize students with the tools
they can use to navigate through these overlapping worlds.
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The ultimate
goal of teacher planning is to create a fun, exciting, and engaging
lesson, with which the students can interact, relate to,
understand. Exuberantly harnessing all necessary qualities into one
lesson, with attention to addressing at least one or more common
core mandates is where the real challenge comes in. By designing
and constructing a multi-faceted lesson plan (as a piece of a
larger unit plan) with lessons on literal and figurative language
and decoding words, students will be able to make inferences using
context clues to comprehend meaning. The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)
provides a plethora of opportunities to explore imagination,
language, literary tools, tactics, and word
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