Objective: The
students will read a library book, and the make a presentation board to
recommend the book to other students; three students each Friday, during
Library time. The students will
help create the rubric for grading the project. The students will also do an
oral presentation of their project.
Standards Addressed:
I-A; 5, 6; I-B 1b, 1c, 2a; I-D 1b,
1d, 4; II-B 9, 1a,1c;
Materials: presentation
boards, rubrics, calendar to sing up for presentations,
Hook: The teacher reads
a book and
prepares a display board to sell the book.
Lesson: announce
the project, and that the students will help decide what to include in the
presentation. Show the Amazon.com
site and discuss what is included in the book sell (picture of cover, author,
title, rating, excerpt from the book, reviews, summary, etc.)
Activity: In
small groups have the students make a list of criteria, then as a class us that
information to decide the final rubric.
Have students sign up for the Friday they will present.
Assessment: will
use the rubric created by students.
Recorded Book Project
Summary: the
students will be creating a CD of children’s stories to give to an elementary
classroom (k-1). The students will
decorate the cover of the CD, deliver the CD’s, listen to a story with a child
and then give the child the CD.
Objective: the
students will choose five
books, children’s books, to record on CD, and give to a child in the elementary
school.
Standards: Listening
and speaking: oral comprehension;1) restating and carrying out simple, one-step
directions 2)making oral presentations that are clearly enunciated and
technologically enhanced.
Materials: recordable
CD’s, computer, books
Hook: As
homework, students will record themselves reading a book out loud, write a
reflection of it. In class they
will share their observations. Discuss what makes a good read aloud. Explain
the project.
Procedure: The
students will each choose five children’s books, practice reading them, then
make a recording of the stories.
Mini lessons: reading
fluency, enunciation
Assessment: each
student will create a CD of stories.
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