Marie+Myfanawy

This is a third grade Writer's Workshop overview for combining technology with the Unit 2, Writing Personal Narrtives Literacy Guide. The materials needed are the students written personal narrative from Writer's Workshop and a computer with Power Point software and internet access for the clip art to create the illustrations.

I estimate the time needed after the story has already been fully developed, revised and edited would be two week with 30 minute access to the computers daily. I base this estimate on the Technology teacher at McGlone who has the students in two week intervals during specials time.

The finished product would be the students Power Point presentation and a self reflection about using Power Point as a publishing tool for personal narrative.

Lesson Plan for using 21st Century Technology

Objective: SWBAT create a Power Point presentation with illustrations, voice recorded narration of the power point pages and text of a personal narrative. The personal narrative will meet the following standards. Characters will have names. The author will be one of the characters and can be designated as the narrator in the first person.. There will be a setting with at least two adjectives providing descrptive details. There will be a plot with a beginning, midddle, and end. The plot will contain a problem and a resolution.

Review: The students will write their personal narratives in Writer's Workshop using the entire writing process of planningm, drafting, revising and editing. Their published pieces will be with the Power Point presentation.

Standards: Reading and Writing Standards 2 and 3: Students will write for a variety of purposes; Students will write using formal grammar, usage, sentence structure, capitalization, punctuation and spelling.

Instruction: Students will learn and demonstrate their ability at fully utilizing the attributes of inserting pictures and text into Power Point software.

Practice: Students will plan the division of their texts and ilustrations to fit into the Power Point format. Students will demonstrate their ability with their finished product.

Summary: Students will share their Power Points with a small group of students. They will evaluate the experience of using Power Point as a publishing tool for personal narrative answering the questions as to whether they judge it to be a publishing tool they will continue to use and explaining why or why not.

I was not able to actually implement this lesson plan due to unexpected changes at our school including a librarian/technology teacher who developed a curriculumf or using the Power Point software to write a research report on an animal.
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