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**Media Orientation - Grades 2- 5**

 * Lesson 1**
 * Big Idea Topic**: Media Orientation and pirate code
 * Learning Objectives:** Students will review the media rules
 * Performance Task:** Watch Prezi on Rules, Check Out Books modeling the rules.


 * Folktale -The Legend of Bell Rock**
 * Cultural Diversity: Scotland**
 * Differentiated**: storytelling, technology[ prezi/ video],
 * Kagan:** Mix Freeze Group
 * Technology**: - created prezi on media rules w/ pirate tie in,

LAFS.6.SL.1.1,b. , LAFS.4.SL.1.1 b., LAFS.3.SL.1.1 b, LAFS.2.SL.1.1 b - Follow agreed-upon rules ... Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning Lesson Link


 * Quarter 1:**
 * Lesson 2 - Grades 2**
 * Big Idea Topic:** Collections in the Library and Just Right Chapter Books
 * Learning Objectives:** Students will learn collections in the library including Just Right Chapter Books
 * Performance Task:** Watch 2nd Half of Prezi, Use provided map in teams using and listen to fractured folktale Dusty Locks and The Three Bears **Literature:** Fractured Fairytale - Dusty Locks and the Three Bears
 * Kagan:** Version of Numbered Heads using their new team names
 * Technology**: prezi created by M. Harclerode, prezi


 * Standards:**

I//**n order to read a variety of literature and informational text - students need to be able to find these sources.**// LAFS.2.RL.4.10, FICTION: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Cognitive Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts

LAFS.2.RI.4.10 NON FICTION: Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently. Cognitive Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts lesson link Next rotation: connect Dusty Lock to Non Fiction Books About Bears --- **//Lesson 3 & 4 & 5//** //[for 2nd and 1st grade] **Parts of Books: focus on call numbers and titles**// **__Big Idea__**: **I can understand the basic parts of a computer, and parts of a book, including ABC order and categories** __Learning Objectives__: **Students will identify the main parts of a computer, and review the main parts of a book, including how ABC order helps categorize books.** __Performance Task__ - **watch videos, whole group demo of computer skill games, centers: both computer lab and table top.** **__NF Books on Bears__ extends past storytelling unit Dusty Locks and the Three Bears [fractured fairytale] will link to future digital project**
 * **Note: this lesson is a 3 session lesson:**
 * **Session 1 Whole Group Demo**
 * **Session 2 Centers [computer lab & table top]**
 * **Session 3 Centers [ repeat with groups switching activities]**

Lesson Link - general computer basics Intro to October Centers -general 2nd Computer Session 1 **[please view for 2nd grade details]**

1 **.Extension Work:** Slogans in Advertising - like Titles in books - connect with Reading Poster contest, in centers review of last weeks Caldecott Books. bear did you know facts for future wordlles[digital project] **2. Technology: ** smart board presentation of computer skill games, computer lab centers [see lesson link], videos **3 HIgher Level Thinking Skills: ** What message are we trying to sell with reading posters **. **

Standards LA.2.LAFS.2.RI.4.10, LA.2.LAFS.2.L.3.5.a, LA.2.LAFS.2.W.2.6, LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.1.1.a, LA.2.LAFS.2.RI.2.5

ESOL Computer-Assisted Cooperative Learning Realia Tapes/Videos || **Note: this lesson is a 2 session lesson:**
 * **Lesson 6 & 7**


 * **Session 1 Whole Group Storytelling Part 1 - Whole Class -Tagxedo Word Cloud with Bear facts**
 * **Session 2 Whole Group Storytelling Part 2- Create own tagxedo with dictionary definitions of animals [copy paste online dictionary]**

**Big Idea:** I can use a dictionary to understand the meaning of a word [online & print]

**Learning Objectives:** Student will understand that a dictionary is a reference book that can help clarify the meaning of words and is set up in alpha order with guide words. **Performance Task:** listen to story,numbered heads whole group demo word clouds, computer lab - animal word cloud with dictionary definition **Lesson Link - Man Who Tricked A Ghost - Dictionary** **Tagxedo Link - use bear facts whole group/ look up definitions of animals for word cloud [independent]**

**1.Extention**: NF Books- Bears [links with previous lesson Bear - did you know facts] **2.Technology-** with help will make word clouds of bears in group, word clouds of different animals using dictionary definition/ online dictionary **3.****Higher Level thinking skills -** evaluate and analyze what does the text mean **4. Kagan: share pair & numbered Heads**

**Folktale: Chinese folk tale :Part 1 -Man Who Tricked a Ghost** **Cultural Diversity: Folktale from China**

Standards LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.2.5, LA.2.LAFS.2.W.2.6, LA.2.LAFS.2.RI.2.5

ESOL Computer-Assisted Key Words Realia Story Telling ||


 * Quarter 2:**

The Rough Faced Girl, Jack the Giant Slayer
 * //Lesson - glossary 8//**
 * **Lesson 9 & 10**


 * Note: this lesson is a 2 session lesson:**


 * **Session 1 Whole Group Storytelling Part 1 - Perfect Orange and Parts of a Book Lesson**
 * **Session 2 Whole Group Computer Lab Part 2- Review and Practice on parts of a book**


 * Big Idea:** I can use Table of Contents, Glossary and Index to help find information.


 * Learning Objectives:** Student will use parts of a book to locate information[ focusing on print sources and introducing that digital index and T of C may be hyperlinked.
 * Performance Task:** listen to story power points, games,computer lab - independent practice


 * Lesson Link- Perfect Orange - Parts of Book**


 * Makerspace - independent practice with parts of book**


 * 1.Extention: Brief Intro of Parts of Book in First Grade - this is more in depth **
 * 2.Technology- **** video, power point, computer lab practice with parts of book **
 * 3. Higher Level thinking skills - "Because she was Sincere and Generous her neighbors loved her" " Why was the King Wise" **
 * 4. Kagan: numbered Heads with higher level thinking questions **


 * Folktale:The Perfect Orange**
 * Cultural Diversity: Folktale from Ethiopia**
 * NF Book: NF Books on Africa**

Standards LA.2.LAFS.2.W.3.7, LA.2.LAFS.2.W.2.6, LA.2.LAFS.2.L.3.4.e, LA.2.LAFS.2.RL.1.2, LA.2.LAFS.2.RI.2.5

ESOL Computer-Assisted Key Words Realia Song/Music Story Telling Tapes/Videos ||


 * Quarter 3**

**Big Idea: I can understand the main message/ theme from this folktale** **and how this tale from another country can relate to my life. Diversity** ** Learning Objectives: ** Students with promoting will make connections between ideas [freedom to soar and dream, that an education is the key] and [ apartheid, & civil rights] **Performance Task:** listen to story,song, Kagan numbered heads video, nonfiction stories on Martin Luther King Jr. Also review of Dictionary and Guide words **Lesson Link -** **1. Extention**: review of Dictionary and guide words ** 2.Technology- ** video of Sea's Fly Like an Eagle - with body motions [brain break] **3.** **Higher Level thinking skills -** why did it bother the neighbor that the farmer raised the eagle as a chicken **4. Kagan: numbered heads on main theme/ author's purpose** **Folktale: African - Fly Eagle Fly** **NF connection: Biography Martin's Big words** **Cultural Diversity:African & African American** > > Standards > LA.2.LAFS.2.RL.3.9, LA.2.LAFS.2.RI.1.3, LA.2.LAFS.2.RL.1.3, > > ESOL > Computer-Assisted > Realia > Song/Music > Story Telling > Tapes/Videos > Total Physical Response
 * Lesson 11**
 * **Whole Group Storytelling : Fly Eagle Fly and Black History Month**
 * LA.2.LAFS.2.L.3.5.a, LA.2.LAFS.2.L.3.4.e, LA.2.LAFS.2.RI.2.4


 * Lesson 12 & 13 **
 * **New Books and Genres**
 * **This is a 2 part lesson.**
 * Big Idea: I can read a variety of genres - books both fiction and non fiction.**
 * Learning Objectives: ** Students with review parts of a book including genres- while being introduced to new award wining both fiction and non fiction.
 * Performance Task:** game " Musical Books", watch video, review with online genre game, storytelling


 * Part 2-**
 * Makerspace to review genres.**
 * Storytell: Chinese Mirror [Korean Folktale about a mirror from China]**

**1.Extention**: **3.** **Higher Level thinking skills -** **Is this book nonfiction or fiction? What is the genre?** **4. Kagan:**
 * 2.Technology- video, online genre game **


 * Lesson LInk**

Standards for 2nd LA.2.LAFS.2.RI.4.10, LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.2.5, LA.2.LAFS.2.RL.4.10

Standards for 3rd LA.3.LAFS.3.RI.4.10, LA.3.LAFS.3.RL.1.2, LA.3.LAFS.3.RL.4.10 ESOL Realia Story Telling Tapes/Videos Total Physical Response ||


 * Lesson 14: Where the Wild Things Are & Dr. Seuss**
 * Lesson 15**

**Big Idea: I will listen to an Irish Folktale and Interview a person from Ireland [primary source]** ** Learning Objectives: ** Students will appreciate a different culture by listenting to a folktale and then forming questions to interview a person from that country. Introduction to primary sources. **Performance Task:** storytelling, song, video, interview, artifacts **Lesson Link: storytelling: Clever Tom and the Leprechaun** **Lesson Link: primary sources** **1.Extention**: ** 2.Technology- video ** **3.** **Higher Level thinking skills -** primary vs. secondary sources; discover how a primary source brings authenticity to learning, realize the importance of their own story **4. Kagan: work in groups to come up with interview questions** Standards LA.2.LAFS.2.RL.4.10, LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.1.2, LA.2.LAFS.2.RL.1.2, LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.1.1.b, LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.1.3 ESOL Language Experience Realia Song/Music Story Telling
 * **Irish Story Telling & Oral Histories/ Primary Sources**
 * Quarter 4**
 * Lesson 16 & 17 **


 * **Power Point Whole Group K- 2**


 * Big Idea: I will create a power point [with my class] about books we are wild about.**
 * Learning Objectives: ** Students will create in whole group a power point presentation using the following features: design, insert [photo, shape, audio] transitions and animation.
 * Performance Task:** digital practice whole group - with power point, adding audio

//[if students were absent for wild creature digital project - they will make this part up with assistant]//

//**This lesson is in 2 parts:**//
 * // **whole group power point learning design features** //
 * //**adding audio to the presentation - narration practice**//

**Lesson Link**
**1.Extention**: **Wild Creature Digital Project -**last lesson **3.** **Higher Level thinking skills -** analyze how design factors enhance a presentation, also review their favorite type of books to read **4. Kagan: Random Group Selector - Numbered Heads to review Presentation Features**
 * 2.Technology- online activitiy -, record audio **

Standards LA.K.LAFS.K.W.2.6 LA.1 LAFS. 1. W.2.6 LA.2 LAFS. 2. W. 2.6

ESOL Computer-Assisted Realia

**If time: Poetry** Our Farm Poetry -- power point on sheep facts sheep poetry: Kenn Nesbitt poetry : A Sheep Is Asleep on My Sofa http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-680.html#.U4pY3fldXEU **Lesson 18** - fairy tale charades and on media lesson books