Lesson: The words "there," "their," and "they’re" are often misused or confused. This mini-lesson is designed to clear up this confusion.

Student Materials: A dictionary, pencils, and paper

Teacher Materials: A dictionary, markers, and overhead transparencies.

Objectives:

After the "There, Their, They’re" lesson, the students will be able to write sentences using these words in their correct usage. For example, a sentence using "there" may look like; "Please go over there."

Set:

I will introduce the "There, Their, They’re" words to the students and ask them to tell me what is similar to all of them. I will then ask the students to give me some rule that these words follow and where we should use each of these words.

Input:

I will introduce the lesson by writing "There, Their, They’re" words and asking the students if they know these words. I will also use each in a sentence to show the students how these words sound the same but are used in different ways.

Modeling:

I will write and say the words in Standard English.

Guided Practice:

The students and I will discuss what they think is similar in this word list and how they differ in meaning. I will write the list on the board. The class and I will compare the list and make a rule that these words follow. The students will look these words up in the dictionary, if they are still unsure of how to use these words.

Independent Practice:

The students will write two sentences for each of these "There, Their, They’re" words them up in the dictionary.

Closure:

After we have completed the sentence writing and discussion about the "There, Their, They’re" words, I will ask the students to share their sentences voluntarily with the rest of the class.
 

Evaluation:

I will compare the individual sentences to the ones discussed in class to see if the students came up with any more ideals on their own. I will also check to see if the students learned the proper usage of these words from the discussion.

List:

"There, Their, They’re"

There are two balls in the hallway.

Where are their books?

They are going to lunch.

They’re going to lunch.