Lesson One: Reading Rainbow Book Review
National Educational Technology Standards
3. Technology productivity tools
4. Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, remediate skill deficits, and facilitate learning throughout the curriculum.
Objectives:
-Students will become familiar with Reading Rainbow's oral book reviews.
Materials:
-Television and VCR
-Reading Rainbow videos
-Rubric (teacher-made)
Purpose:
-Students will watch the short book reviews that are always shown during each video. The students will be reading a book of their choice and doing an oral book report similar to those from Reading Rainbow. Watching some examples will allow the students to know what they will need to do in order to have a successful book review.
Anticipatory Set:
-Teacher will ask students what they know about the book reviews that are on the Reading Rainbow series. For example, the teacher will say, "What is unique about these book reviews?" Teacher will take all reasonable answers.
Check for Understanding: [Will occur during Guided Practice]
-Teacher will say, "Tell me some things you notice about the book reviews?"
Modeling:
-Students watch Reading Rainbow.
Guided Practice:
-Teacher and students will discuss what they noticed about the book reviews (length of the review, content [title, plot, why they enjoyed the book], and other aspects of the review [eye contact, catchy beginning, clear voice, conclusion]).
Independent Practice:
-Students will be given their rubric at this time. Teacher will go through the areas where students should pay particular attention so that they get the maximum number of points for this assignment. Students will be given time to read through the rubric on their own and ask questions at this time.
Closure:
-Teacher will ask for any questions.
* Students have one day to find a book that they are interested in using for this project. They must bring it in the following day for approval. *
Lesson Two: Reading Rainbow Kidspiration Web
Michigan English Language Arts Content Standards and Benchmarks
Meaning and Communication
Standard 3: All students will focus on meaning and communications as they listen, speak, view, read, and write in personal, social, occupational, and civic contexts.
Later Elementary Benchmark 5: Employ multiple strategies to construct meaning while reading, listening to, viewing, or creating texts.
National Educational Technology Standards
1. Basic operations and concepts
1. Use keyboards and other common input and output devices efficiently and effectively.
5. Technology research tools
6. Technology problem-solving and decision-making tools
8. Use technology resources for problem solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities.
Objectives:
-Students will create a web from a predetermined template based on the book of their choice.
Materials:
-Book (each student will have a different book)
-Computer Lab
-Kidspiration software (with predetermined template)
-LCD projector and screen
Purpose:
-Students will learn how to use a web in order to find the important aspects of a book (for example, plot and main idea). Students will learn how to use a web that is already prepared for them. In other lessons, students have created their own web. The predetermined template will allow the students to focus on their topic, not on the creation of the web itself.
Anticipatory Set:
-Teacher will ask the students make up one sentence to describe their whole book. Teacher will give students approximately one minute to do this. He will ask for a few examples from the students. Teacher will tell the students that they will be putting important information about their book into a web and that they will need to make their descriptions short.
Check for Understanding:
-Teacher will observe the students as they work and ask them specific questions about their book as he looks at their web.
Modeling:
-Teacher will show the students the predetermined template using the LCD projector. The teacher will review the bubbles already included on the web (for example, plot) so the students know what each bubble means.
Guided Practice:
-Students will fill in the "plot" bubble together using the specific information from their chosen book. Teacher will fill in an example bubble so the students get an idea of what the web should look like.
Independent Practice:
-Students will continue to fill in their web. This will take several computer lab times to complete.
Closure:
-Teacher will look at the final web from each student before they are allowed to print.