Instructional Software

Lesson Idea Name:

Compare and Contrast E-Books

Content Area: ELA

Grade Level(s):

2nd Grade

Content Standard Addressed:

Student will read two books of the same topic and compare and contrast them.

Selected Technology Tool:

UniteforLiteracy.com

Canva

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable and goes directly to the lesson):

Example of two E-Books students could pick. These are both about art.

https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/unite/createandplay/book?BookId=1841

https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/unite/createandplay/book?BookId=1546

Students have a choice of what topic of E-Books they prefer.

Type of Instructional Software:

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

Features of this software (check all that apply):

☐ Assessment Monitoring/Reporting

X 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

X Accessible to students beyond the school day

☐ Accessible via mobile devices

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☐ Multiple languages

☐ Safety, security and/or privacy features

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Level(s):

☐ Remembering ☐ Understanding ☐ Applying X Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration:

☐ Infusion Level: Students may work at a higher Bloom’s Level, but they do not have any “Voice or Choice”
during the activity and most of the decisions are made by the teacher.

X Integration Level: We would like to see ALL lessons/activities reach this level. The project is student driven.
Students have “Voice and Choice” in the activities, selecting the topic of study and determining the
technology tool to demonstrate mastery of the standard. The teacher becomes more of a facilitator.

☐ Expansion Level: The projects created are shared outside of the classroom, publishing student work and
promoting authorship. This could be reached by showcasing the project on the school’s morning
newscast, posting the project to the classroom blog, or publishing via an outside source.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

Students will be engaged by being able to pick their own topics. They will also be engaged by the variety and
pictures that are included in the United for Literacy’s website.

Students will view representation through the variety of topics of E-Books on the United for Literacy that they
are free to choose from.

Students will use action and expression through creating their compare and contrast charts on Canva. They
will be able to pick elements, colors, and fonts to express themselves.

This lesson is very much up to the students on how they want their understanding to look and what they want
to learn about.

Lesson idea implementation:

Students will read to E-Books that are about the same general topic. They will then create a digital compare
and contrast chart based on the information of the E-Book. The teacher’s role will be to guide students
towards understanding the project’s basis and pick a suitable topic for their chart. This project is mostly
student led. From there, student’s learning will be assessed through their charts. This will be used to inform
the teacher for differentiation through their vocabulary used, how well they put together their chart, their
understanding of their topics, and more. To turn this into a higher learning level lesson, I would ask students
to pull quotes from their E-Books to give evidence to their findings. Feedback will be given through written
feedback on to their digital charts. To conclude this lesson, students will print their charts and share them
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with the class if they feel inclined to.

Reflective Practice:

After designing this lesson, I feel that there are many different and unique ways to incorporate technology
into a lesson that will heavily impact student learning. I feel like this lesson is good entry point or a step along
the way within ELA learning and cementing student understanding in literacy. I think a lesson to extend their
learning would be to have them try to find two more books of the same topic and make an even larger chart.
These can be books from the library, and they can use their digital chart to add more knowledge. From there,
they can create a presentation to explain their knowledge of comparing and contrasting on PowerPoint, Sway
and many other software tools that allow you to make presentations.

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