Standard5

Use technology to locate, evaluate, gather, and organize information and data || //How did using a web on Kidspiration help you to organize information? What did you like about using the technology? What didn’t you like about using the technology? // || =**Rubric:**= =**Teacher Model:**=
 * Lesson Title: || New Title for Non-fiction Text ||
 * Subject Area: || C.S.I.- Theme 1: Main Idea and Details ||
 * Maryland Technology Literacy Standard(s) for Students (MTLSS): || Standard 5: Technology for Information Use and Management
 * Measurable Outcomes from HCPS’s Instructional Scope and Sequence (aligned with MTLSS) || 5.B.1. Use technology tools to organize information
 * Participate, as part of a class, in organizing information using technology tools (such as graphic organizers and slide presentations
 * Use technology tools, independently or with assistance, to support note taking
 * Describe how technology tools are used to organize information ||
 * State Curriculum Standard(s): || 2.2.A.4.b. Identify main ideas/messages ||
 * Student-Friendly Objective: || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">We will consider the main ideas and messages in the text in order to determine a new title for the article "Bare Bones." We will identify details from the text in order to support our choice for the title. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Access and Assessment of Prior Knowledge: || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How do you think an author decides on a title for their piece of writing? // ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Procedures: || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This lesson can be used during the teaching of Theme 1 of the StoryTown curriculum. This lesson will expand upon identifying the main idea and supporting details. It should be taught prior to administering the Benchmark assessment. The students should read the article, “Bare Bones” from National Geographic October 2008 prior to participating in this lesson. //
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lead the students to the conclusion that authors consider the main ideas and messages of the article to determine a title for their piece.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The teacher will engage the students in a conversation about how the author determined the title “Bare Bones” for his article.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Together, the class will complete a web using Kidspiration. The teacher will model how to type the title “Bare Bones” at the center of the web, and use the “Add Symbol” button to add ideas to the web. The class will work together to identify details from the text that support that particular title and type them onto the document.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">After participating in the whole group activity, each student will work independently on a personal computer. The students will access Kidspiration and click on “Picture View” to begin a web.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will add their name to the document.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will type their new title for “Bare Bones” in the middle of the web.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will add symbols in which they will type details from the text that support their title choice. They will refer to the text for specific examples. The details should help the student to explain why their title is a good one for the article.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When the students have completed their web, they will select the appropriate printer and print their web. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Assessment: || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A rubric will be used to assess the students’ ability to identify an alternative title for the article as well as their ability to use the technology. Through discussion at the conclusion of the lesson, teachers will evaluate the students’ understanding of how the technology assisted them in organizing information. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Closure: || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This web will be used tomorrow as you complete a written response, explaining why your title is a good choice for the article, “Bare Bones.” //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Materials: || * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Copies of the National Geographic article “Bare Bones” for each student (found in the October 2008 edition)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Kidspiration software
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Computers for each student
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A printer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A rubric for each student ||

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Use technology to locate, evaluate, gather, and organize information and data || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">To extend this lesson, the students could use the same story map to identify the characters, setting, and sequence of events in __The Great Ball Game__ or the leveled readers included with the StoryTown curriculum (__Why Raven is Black__, __Hummingbird and Heron__, __Peacock and Crane)__. // || =Flipchart:= =Assessment:=
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lesson Title: || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Identifying the Plot of a Story ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Subject Area: || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">C.S.I.- Theme 2: Story Structure ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Maryland Technology Literacy Standard(s) for Students (MTLSS): || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Standard 5: Technology for Information Use and Management
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Measurable Outcomes from HCPS’s Instructional Scope and Sequence (aligned with MTLSS) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5.B.1.Use technology tools to organize information
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Participate, as part of a class, in organizing information using technology tools (such as graphic organizers and slide presentations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Use technology tools, independently or with assistance, to support note taking
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Describe how technology tools are used to organize information ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">State Curriculum Standard(s): || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">2.3.A.3.d. Identify and explain relationships between and among characters, setting, and events ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Student-Friendly Objective: || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">We will use a story map to identify the characters, setting, and sequence of events in a particular story. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Access and Assessment of Prior Knowledge: || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When you retell a story, which details are most important to share? // ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Procedures: || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This lesson can be used at the start of Lesson 8 in Theme 2 of the StoryTown anthologies. This lesson introduces the skill of identifying characters, setting, and the plot of a story before students apply the skill to the anthology story, __The Great Ball Game__. A //[|//flipchart//]//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> is provided with this lesson plan. //
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Explain that the structure of a story includes characters, setting, the beginning, middle, and end.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">As a class, access an [|online interactive] featuring the story of Cinderella. The teacher will project the website onto the Interactive Whiteboard or television. The students will listen to the story with a focus on the characters, setting, and sequence of events.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">After listening to the story, follow the directions on the screen to discuss the elements of the story. The students may come up to the Interactive Whiteboard or computer to participate in the lesson.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will understand that the setting is the time and place of a story, and they will determine the setting of the story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will understand that the characters are the people or animals in a story, and they will identify the characters in Cinderella. The students will also explore the idea of a hero and a villain in a story. They will identify characters from Cinderella as heroes or villains and identify character traits for each.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will understand that the sequence of events in a story is the plot and drag pictures of scenes from Cinderella to identify the sequence of events.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">After working as a class to identify the characters, setting, and sequence of events in the story of Cinderella, the students will complete a story map for __Stellaluna__ by Janell Cannon. Access an online read-aloud of __Stellaluna__ from [|Storyline Online]. The students will listen to the story as a class, focusing on the characters, setting, and sequence of events.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">After listening to the story, work together as a class to complete a story map, identifying the characters, setting, and beginning, middle, and end of the story __Stellaluna__. You may want to have hard copies of the text available for students to reference during this part of the lesson.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Assessment: || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will complete the exit ticket, comparing the online read-aloud to a read-aloud done in class by the teacher. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Closure: || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What are the parts of a story’s structure? What is the plot of a story? // ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Materials: || * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Computer access
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Interactive whiteboard or television to project computer images to students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Several copies of __Stellaluna__ by Janell Cannon (optional)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Copies of story map from StoryTown Teacher Resource book
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Copies of the exit ticket to be completed by each student ||