Beyond-the-Basic

Productivity Tools (BBPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Room on the Broom Story Structure
Content Area: Reading and Writing
Grade Level(s): 2nd grade

Content Standard Addressed: ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story including describing how
the beginning introduces the story, the middle provides major events and challenges, and the ending
concludes the action.

Technology Standard Addressed: 3-Knowledge Constructor

Selected Technology Tool: Bubbl.us

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): Embedded in Bubbl.us activity.

Bloom’s 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

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):
Visual learners will great benefit from this lesson because of the implementation of a visual tool. Students
with an auditory impairment will also benefit from the visual mind map that shows every aspect of the story
that is being discussed. Students with visual impairments can listen to the story and listen to the discussion
about the story. ELL students can use the bubbl.us mind map to understand and remember important story
structure vocabulary.

Lesson idea implementation:
Students are going to read and listen to the book Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Sheffler
two times as a group. The students are going to describe the overall structure of a story including describing
how the beginning introduces the story, the middle provides major events and challenges, and the ending
concludes the action by using the Bubbl.us mind map. To introduce the project, the teacher will briefly go
over what a character, setting, conflict, and solution is and how those relate to the five W’s (who, what,
when, where, why and how). The teacher will create the Bubbl.us mind map as she explains what happens in
the beginning, middle, and end of a story. Also on this first day the teacher will read the beginning of the
story to the class and ask them questions about the characters and setting so far, as well as what they think
will happen. The next day the teacher will finish reading the book and then have the students watch/listen to
a read aloud version of the book on YouTube. Once they’ve read the book twice the teacher will pull up the
Bubbl.us Story Structure mind map on the Interactive Whiteboard or projector. There will be added bubbles
under the different aspects of the beginning, middle, and end with questions to answer. The teacher will split
the class into three groups, assigning each group with a part of the story. The groups will have to discuss and
come up with answers for the questions of their parts. The class will come back to the rug in front of the
board after given ample time to discuss. The teacher will ask each group to share their answers and as they
are sharing the teacher is writing in the empty bubbles on the board.
Student learning will be assessed by informal assessment of how the groups answer the questions. The
final product will be used to inform learning by acting as a visual tool that can be printed out and given to the

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students to use for reading other stories or even writing their own stories. I could extend the student learning
to a higher learning level by allowing the students to choose what group they want to be in and by sharing the
mind map on the classroom blog or with other classrooms. I will the conclude the lesson by transitioning into
phonics using spelling words that may be in the book or transitioning to a writing activity with a similar
theme. I will provide feedback to my students about their work verbally during group discussion.

Reflective Practice:
After designing this lesson idea, I feel that the activities I created could impact student learning by giving
the students tools to break down a story in to parts in order to attain better comprehension of the story. To
further extend the lesson, I could use this process for other books as a way to practice. Other technology
tools that would further enhance this project would be interactive boards SmartBoard or a Recordex board.

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