Activity
Sheet
Cyber
Exchange Lesson Plan
Bag A Book Report
Connie Campbell
Jefferson County Schools
Third/Fourth
Subjects
| Reading | Language Arts |
Overview
Learners will learn to create a book report.
Time Frame
5 day (45min. lessons) activity
Objectives
In this lesson, students will:
Day 1
Read aloud the book, Annie and the Old One, by Miska Miles and share related websites (see list at end of lesson)
Whole Group Activity
After listening to Annie and the Old One students will create a brown paper bag book report using an ordinary paper bag. Students will help select four items to place in the bag to represent significant events or characters from the book. Place these items on a table: rock, yarn, loom, spoon, feather, calendar, cup, and key. Discuss which items relate to the book. Put the items in a brown paper bag and discuss which item came first in the story. As students organize items and summarize events in the story type their ideas in MS Word projecting on a wide screen TV. Point out paragraph main ideas and detail sentences as you do so. After the story has been recounted, allow groups to read paragraph and share items with the class.
Day 2
Small Group Activity Students work in groups of 2-3 and select and read book. Together they make a list of what items they will bring for their brown paper bag.
Day 3
Distribute brown paper bags (variation: you could distribute the bags on Day 2 and place the book(s) for each group inside the bag, letting it be a surprise which book the group would be reporting on)
Students place items in bags and begin writing a rough draft for their book reports.
Day 4
As students complete their rough draft, they will type, save, and print these on MS Word. Students could also do web searches for sites related to their book or author.
http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm
http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/
http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~jbh/author.html
http://www.books.com/scripts/authors.exe
Day 5
Students give an oral presentation of their book using their brown paper bag and MS Word projected on a large screen.
Evaluation Students evaluate each other’s presentation (see Activity).
National Standards Addressed by this Lesson
Improved student achievement through the use of technology as a tool to enhance the reading curriculum.
Teacher education and professional development.
State Standards Addressed by this Lesson
State of the art technology will be used to improve curriculum.
All primary grade students will achieve world class standards.
For additional relevant information, visit the following Web sites:
Title1: Miska Miles
Description 1: Information on the author of Annie and the Old One
Title2: Teacher Cyber Guide, Annie and the Old One
URL2: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/annie/annietg.html
Description 2: This supplemental unit to Annie and the Old One was developed by teachers in the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) Project.
Author(s) Contact Information
Name Connie Campbell
School Jefferson County Schools
E-Mail Address campbelc@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
School Home Page URL (optional)
Activity
Sheet
Cyber Exchange Lesson
Overview
After each team presents their report, ask other teams to complete the following evaluation instrument.
Bag A Book Report Evaluation
Group__________________________________________________________________
Book___________________________________________________________________
Rate each team by using this scale:
1=not at all 2= sometimes 3= most of the time 4=all of the time
1. The report gave the important events in the book. 1 2 3 4
2. The report had indented paragraphs. 1 2 3 4
3. Each paragraph contained a main idea. 1 2 3 4
4. Each paragraph contained detail sentences 1 2 3 4
5. The report correctly contained punctuation marks. 1 2 3 4
6. The report correcty contained capital letters. 1 2 3 4