Blog Post #14: Final Project Idea

For my final project I would create a lesson for the 4^th grade level. I would like to create a Language Arts lesson and focus on the TEK (6) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (A) sequence and summarize the plot's main events and explain their influence on future events. I decided to focus on this lesson because every year after we receive our scores for the STAAR test, it is determined that we are lacking the skills in summarizing. We have seen students struggle trying to determine what to include in the summary.  

The learning goals for this lesson would be for the students to learn how to determine if their information is an important event that needs to be included in their summary. The other goal would be for the students to be able to sequence the events of the story, and therefore, understand and be able to explain how those events all have an influence in future events.

This lesson will be designed to focus on main ideas as an introduction so that students can avoid including information that does not belong in the summary. I will tap into their interests by focusing on stories that they are familiar with and that appeal to them.

For this lesson, I am planning on having students use Prezi so that they can summarize the main events of the story. I would also have them use Edmodo to communicate with me as well as with their peers. Another Web 2.0 tool that I would like to include would be Twitter. I would include Twitter because I think it can help them summarize since there is a limit to how many words you can have.