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4th Grade English Cooperative Learning Plan

This cooperative learning lesson plan is for a 4th grade English class reviewing the book James and the Giant Peach. The students will work in groups of 6 using a Jigsaw II activity, where each student focuses on one character and shares what they learned with students assigned the same character in other groups, then teaches the rest of their group. The goal is for students to take notes to help write an essay describing their favorite character. Modifications are made for two students with dysgraphia and one ELL student. Assessment will involve students sharing what they learned about characters and starting a character worksheet and essay draft.

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4th Grade English Cooperative Learning Plan

This cooperative learning lesson plan is for a 4th grade English class reviewing the book James and the Giant Peach. The students will work in groups of 6 using a Jigsaw II activity, where each student focuses on one character and shares what they learned with students assigned the same character in other groups, then teaches the rest of their group. The goal is for students to take notes to help write an essay describing their favorite character. Modifications are made for two students with dysgraphia and one ELL student. Assessment will involve students sharing what they learned about characters and starting a character worksheet and essay draft.

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Cooperative Learning Lesson Plan

I. Class Description

This 4th grade class has 24 students with 2 that have writing-dysgraphia and 1 English

Language Learner.

II. Subject/Skill

English, Book Review

III. Objectives

Students will share notes to demonstrate their listening when reading the book.

Students will review James and the Giant Peach in an interactive way.

Students should be able to use notes and ideas from one another to help write an essay.

IV. Procedures

1. Students will share ideas and knowledge through Jigsaw II to review for tests and write

an essay.

2. I will re-show the powerpoint of the characters with their name and a picture so they

can easily recall who their character is and have the correct spelling. The purpose of this

lesson is to review for a character test and to help write an essay where they will choose

their favorite character, describe why they choose them/how they relate to them, their

favorite things about them, and one important thing they may learn from that character

and what it means to them.

[Link] will be playing Jigsaw II today for this lesson. There will be 3 groups of 6 students

created and each student in the group will be given a character. Each student will then go

and find the students from the other 2 remaining groups that have the same character as

them. They will share with one another who the character is and things they did in the

story and things they found interesting about that character. The students will then return
to their group after about 20-25 mins and share with their group what they learned about

their character.

V. Materials

Laptops, notebooks, pencils, James and the Giant Peach book

VI. Grouping Structures

Jigsaw II to review in 3 groups of 6 amongst the classroom

VII. Modifications

There are 2 students with writing-dysgraphia and they will be able to work in the groups

alongside everyone else except they will be given laptops to take notes on rather than

writing them into a notebook. There is also one English Language Learner in the class

and they’ll also be given a laptop but they will have a document created with pictures of

the characters and sentences already given for their character in both english and their

primary language and they’ll be able to have both and can have a better understanding in

both languages.

VIII. Assessment

Students will then return to their desk and the teacher will put up large post-its on board

for each and call on students and have them share one thing they have about a character.

This will show the type of material students have to use for their upcoming lesson.

Students will be assigned a review character worksheet that will be similar to the

upcoming test. They will also begin their rough draft of their character paper.

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