Elle CO-#1

Date/Time: Monday, March 9, 10:00–10:50 

Topic/Skill: Grammar; Adjective Clauses 

Teacher Presentation: Teacher introduced adjective clauses and their relative pronouns (who, whom, that, whose, where, when) using board notes and real-world example sentences created on the spot. 

Classroom Management: Students followed along with a worksheet while the teacher led instruction verbally. The teacher encouraging students to attempt answers without fear of being wrong. 

Materials: Adjective clauses worksheet 

Student Participation: Students were called on to read aloud and asked to volunteer their own example sentences for each relative pronoun. When students struggled, the teacher used the scaffolding method with incomplete sentences to incur responses. 

Feedback Provided: Teacher used implicit error correction, reframing student mistakes as correct examples of a related concept rather than marking them wrong. Extra help was offered to students at the end of class. 

Lessons on Teaching Learned: How implicit error correction can protect student confidence while still modeling accurate language use in a grammar lesson.

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