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Lesson Idea Name: Narratives on Your Worst Day Ever

Content Area: English/Language Arts
Grade Level(s): 2nd

Content Standard Addressed:

ELAGSE2W3 Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of
events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event
order, and provide a sense of closure.

Technology Standard Addressed: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving
and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. Students will be
empowered learners by:

c. Using technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a
variety of ways.

Selected Technology Tool: BrainPop

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): https://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/typesofwriting/

Type of Instructional Software:

Drill and Practice Tutorial Simulation Instructional Game e-books/e-references

Features of this software (check all that apply):

Assessment Monitoring/Reporting
Allows teacher to create customized lessons for students
Multi-user or collaborative functions with others in the class
Multi-user or collaborative with others outside the class
Accessible to students beyond the school day
Accessible via mobile devices
Multiple languages
Safety, security and/or privacy features

Blooms Taxonomy Level(s):

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

Level 1: Awareness Level 2: Exploration Level 3: Infusion Level 4: Integration
Level 5: Expansion Level 6: Refinement

Lesson idea implementation:

The students have some prior knowledge of the four types of writing including: persuasive, descriptive,
narrative, and opinion writing. They also know how to formulate a paragraph and tell a story by using temporal
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words for events. The lesson will start with students using the class set of laptops to visit BrainPop.com. On the
website they will view the English topics and choose the topic types of writing. When looking at the types of
writing topic students will be able to refresh themselves on the four types of writing by watching the short movie
as well as doing the quiz on types of writing. After students have watched the short film and taken the quiz I will
then all students sit on the carpet in a group for a read aloud. I will be reading the story, The Worst Day of My
Life Ever by Julia Cook.

This book will be the introduction to the narrative story they will write. After the reading, students will be given
the prompt on the screen What was your worst day ever? as well as a personal graphic organizer for their
narrative piece to help organize their ideas. The graphic organizer will have the prompt on it and a space to write
a sentence on their event. Then it will have temporal words such as first, next, then in different boxes so students
can tell about their event in the order that it happened. The narrative writing will take 2-5 days to complete
because they will go through the five steps of the writing process; brainstorming, writing a rough draft, revising,
editing, and then publishing the final product.

Students will be assessed on their final paper by showing theyre able to tell a story about their worst day ever
in a sequential order. They will also be assessed on how well they did on the BrainPop quiz on types of writing.
Students that need support can refer back the book The Worst Day of My Life Ever by Julia Cook for
examples to tell about their worst day ever. An extension for this activity would be for student to figure out how
they could fix their worst day ever or how could they have stopped it from happening. After students have
written their final paper they will be able to present their narratives on their worst day ever in front of the class
by using the document camera and reading it to the class as well.

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