GIPS Co-teaching: 6th Grade Language Arts goes "fishing!"

The theme of 6th grade Co-taught Language Arts at Westridge recently was "Fishing." Sharon Klanecky and Megan Eberle were using the metaphor of "hook-line-sinker" as a comparison to an "intro-body-conclusion" as students prepared for a descriptive writing essay. When they planned this lesson, the teachers took into consideration what the needs of their students were for each section of an essay (intro, body, and conclusion). Then, they planned for stations where the students would work on skills pertaining to each section at different stations. Below you will see some of the artifacts that they used. They each took a station and then there was a station that was independent. At the independent station, students would pull topics out of a tackle box and do a round table brainstorming activity - diving into feelings, emotions, and descriptive details retlative to the topic. This helped students continue to work on that skill.

Enjoy the pictures of artifacts and videos below!!!