Basic Productivity Presentation Tool

Lesson Idea

Lesson Idea Name: Creative Stories and Guided Reading

Grade Level/Content Area: Second Grade
Content Standard Addressed: ELACC2RL5
ISTE Technology Standard Addressed: What would you like students to know and
be able to do by the end of this lesson:
ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story,
including describing how the beginning introduces the story
and the ending concludes the action. Students can describe overall
structure of a story including
Empowered Learner – Element 1.1.a. beginning introductions and ending
Students articulate and set personal learning actions.
goals, develop strategies leveraging technology
to achieve them and reflect on the learning
process itself to improve learning outcomes.

What is the student learning goal for this lesson idea?

The learning goal for this lesson is to understand the events that occur during a story and
understand specifically beginning, middle, and ending events.
Selected Basic Productivity Tool: PowerPoint
URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Level(s):

x Remembering x Understanding x Applying ☐ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐ Creating

How will this lesson be implemented? Check all that apply.

x Teacher-directed: There is no student voice and choice in the activities. Students are guided by the
teacher's direction and expectations.

☐ Student-Led: Students are given voice and choice in the activities. They may select the topic for
presentation and/or determine the tool they will use to meet the learning goal. Products of
learning will be uniquely designed. Teacher simply facilitates the learning in a lesson like this.

☐ Project-based and/or Publishable: Students are completing projects to demonstrate their learning
and the projects can be shared outside of the classroom. This objective could be reached by
displaying the project on the school’s morning newscast, posting the project to the classroom
blog, presenting it to another class, or publishing it via an outside source.

Lesson idea implementation:

Students will be introduced to PowerPoint and will be able to work in groups and the activity
will be teacher led. The teacher will walk through tools in PowerPoint and then allow
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Lesson Idea

students to make a one slide presentation to show what they learned in each part of the
story that the teacher read to them. Students will discuss what happened in the beginning,
middle, and end and collaborate on creative ideas to put in their one slide presentation.
Students will be told in their instructions that one slide is all they need, and their goal is to
work together to complete it. The teacher will walk around helping students with any
questions or concerns after walking step by step on how to use this new presentation tool.
The lesson will be concluded with the students presenting their one slide to the class in
groups.

Managing the technology/engagement: Describe a way to use this technology in a way that
gets students actively involved in authentic tasks and contexts? How will you manage the
classroom behaviors on the technology:
The students will use time on task in this lesson. The first 15 minutes will be guided reading of
the book with the teacher. The next 15 minutes will be an introduction of PowerPoint and
how to use it. The next 30 minutes will be students in groups creating a one slide
presentation to the class while the teacher walks around for much needed assistance. The
final part will be each group presenting their one slide with beginning, middle, and end
content to the class until class time is over. The students are involved because they are
working in groups. The classroom management will be secured by the teacher walking
around the entire time asking questions to improve engagement in each group.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

This technology tool supports all students because it is easy to access with multiple tools like
subtitles, recording, pictures, fonts, etc. This tool will enhance learning experience because it
focuses on engagement and representation in the UDL framework. The engagement comes
into play when students are participating in guided reading and learning about
comprehension of the beginning, middle and end of the story. Representation is used by
allowing the students to create a one slide representation of what they believed the
beginning, middle and ending of the story reflected on.