Abbreviations Lesson Plan

This Abbreviations Teach-Its® unit includes a rigorous, fun, and engaging lesson to help you teach this difficult skill to your students.   This unit includes: ☞ a Scripted Standards-Based Lesson Plan that includes Learning Targets, Materials, Standards, and a scripted lesson plan to help you effectively teach about what abbreviations are and how abbreviations are made and used ☞ a Whole Group Active Engagement Activity to engage and excite your students to help them learn about abbreviations. You will engage your students with a poem (written by myself, Anna DiGilio) about Abbreviations. It will help you introduce the concept of abbreviations. You can write the poem on chart paper and do a shared reading of the poem while the students sit on the carpet or you can use it on your smartboard and share a copy with your students for their notebooks. You will create a chart of abbreviations together as a brainstorming session with the students. ☞ a Guided Practice Activity where the studen