Lesson Plan

Lesson Title: Revising and Editing with VoiceThread Grade: 4

Learning Target: Students will be able to analyze and evaluate peer writing pieces and give
meaningful feedback in order to develop writing. Students will also be able to utilize VoiceThread, a
multimedia presentation tool to revise and edit peer work to further develop their writing.

Content Standards
Content Curriculum Focal
Points
ISTE 1: Students leverage
technology to take an active role
in choosing, achieving and
demonstrating competency in
their learning goals, informed
by the learning sciences.
Ohio Common Core State Interdisciplinary Connections
Standards
W.4.5: With guidance and Science: Students will be
support from peers and adults, writing about new things they
develop and strengthen writing have learned about the solar
as needed by planning, revising, system in science class.
and editing.
W.4.6: With some guidance and
support from adults, use
technology, including the
Internet, to produce and publish
writing as well as to interact and
collaborate with others, while
demonstrating sufficient
command of keyboarding skills.

Academic Language: Revising, Editing, Writing Process, Collaboration, Peer Feedback, Multimedia
Tools, VoiceThread.

Students’ Needs: Students need to be familiar with the preceding stages of the writing process,
prewriting and drafting. For the introduction of VoiceThread, students will need to be familiar with
computer use and have access to internet. To bridge knowledge gaps, students will be paired with other
students that are in their ZPD for scaffolding.

English Language Learners Special Needs

-ELL students will be partnered with bilingual
students.
-ELL students will be given instructional
materials to review ahead of time in order to
follow more closely during instructional time.
Visual Impairments: Students will be seated
near the teacher for better view of modeling
and examples.
Hearing Impairments:
Students will be seated close to teacher to be
able to see more clearly as teacher speaks.
Handout of lecture notes will also be given to
student.
Materials:
Student: Pencil or pen (not red), paper, science essay, technology device.
Teacher: Example of revised or edited paper that I did, VoiceThread program, revising and editing
video link.

Language Function: Students will analyze peer writing and give feedback to their peers. After
evaluating their peers’ work, students will explain their feedback in order to justify changes they think
should be made. They will use VoiceThread as a medium to carry out this assignment. When the
feedback stage is completed, students will interpret their feedback received and synthesize new ways to
develop their pieces of writing.
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Lesson Plan

Before:
-Discuss the writing process as learned so far with students to activate prior knowledge.
-Ask questions to clarify misunderstandings.
-Introduce the revising and editing stage of the writing process.
-Play revising and editing video for students.
-Introduce VoiceThread and explain how to use it to students.
-Model an example of VoiceThread in use to revise and edit a paper that I wrote myself.
-Students ask clarifying questions.

During:
-Teacher and students work the VoiceThread program together.
-Each student uploads the science paper they are currently working on.
-Teacher divides students into groups of three.
-Each group collaboratively revises and edits 3 of the science papers together that were not their own.
-Students talk about their feedback and corrections, justifying them to each other and explaining why.
-Teacher circulates around the room facilitating the learning experience and helping students when
necessary.

After:
-Whole group discussion occurs, offering students a chance to ask questions and discuss the new
program.
-Assignment is introduced, students will get a paper assigned to them from the teacher to revise and
edit individually.
-Students will complete as homework.

Assessment:

Type of assessment Description of Modifications Evaluation Criteria

assessment
Informal Formative Students will ELL students will Students will successfully
successfully work be paired with complete editing all three papers
the VoiceThread bilingual students or collaboratively to demonstrate
program
 given the program their knowledge of the use of the
ahead of time. program.
Informal Formative Teacher will Students with 80% of students should correctly
provide multiple hearing impairments answer all questions given by the
opportunities to are closest to the teacher before moving on to a
respond (OTR) to teacher. new topic. If less than 80%
students about the correctly answer questions, the
use of VoiceThread material must be redelivered.
and the process of
revising and editing
Formal Formative Homework ELL students will Assignment must be complete. A
assignment: be allowed to work paper that has been revised and
Students with a partner for has meaningful markings and
individually edit proper scaffolding feedback on it will show that
and revise a paper to occur. students successfully used
using VoiceThread. VoiceThread and understand the
two steps of the writing process,
revising and editing.

Resources:

Revising and Editing link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLpKgeLgFEg

Memory Essay Artifact: https://voicethread.com/share/13352936/