UNION UNIVERSITYS LESSON PLAN FORMAT

(Template available at http://www.uu.edu/programs/tep)

Name Lauren Wood
Date 5/9/2014 Grade/Subject 2
nd
grade/ ESL
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TN CURRICULUM STANDARDS AND COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS ADDRESSED BY
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
TN Standard: ELL.S.1-2.4 Tell, summarize and/or retell ideas and/or stories.

Common Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales
from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.5 Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add
drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas,
thoughts, and feelings.



GOAL(S): TSW (know, understand or appreciate); very broad
TSW understand summaries and how to present them creatively.

OBJECTIVES AND ASSESSMENT:
Learning Objectives
(stated behaviorally)
Assessment
(formative/summative)
Level of Thinking
(Blooms Taxonomy OR
Webbs Depth of
Knowledge)
1. TSW effectively
summarize a story

TSW mentally and orally
compose a summary of the
their experiences from the
day before and share these
with the class (formative).

Apply (B)
2. TSW determine the main
idea or moral of a story
TSW determine the moral of
a familiar story and share
this moral with the class
(formative).
Analyze (B)
3. TSW create a presentation
of their summary of a story
using audio recordings and
drawings
TSW use the Web 2.0 tool
Blabberize to create a
Blabber in order to present
a summary using audio
recordings and drawings
(summative).
Create (B)

INSTRUCTION:
Lesson Opener
o Hook: I will hold up a lengthy storybook and a piece of paper with a summary of the
storybook printed on it saying, Tonight for homework you need to read this book. I will
then wait for groans and gasps of surprise and then hold up a piece of paper with a
summary written on it and say, However, you could also read this summary that I have
written of this storybook. This summary is less than a page and it has all of the most
important information from the storybook in it, so how about I just assign reading this
summary for homework instead of the whole book?

o Bridge: Today we are going to learn about a very useful tool: summaries! First we will
learn how to create summaries and then we will learn how to use a really cool online tool
called Blabberize to help us present our summaries by making them talk!

Development of concepts and/or skills (include monitoring and assessments of student
learning integrated throughout instruction related directly to objectives, description of
classroom structure [groups, centers, etc.], and strategies for pre-comprehension,
comprehension, and post-comprehension)

Script this area! What will you say! Be specific!

Part 1:
Teach you heart out! Use some technology as you teach!

Lets turn our attention to the PowerPoint on the Promethean Board. Look at the noun
summary and the verb summarize on this slide. Have you ever heard or seen these words
before class today? Lets take some time to think-pair-share. Take a moment and think to
yourself about what you know about these words and what you think they mean. Next, turn to
your neighbor at the desk next to you and share your thoughts. Then, I will call on some of you to
share your ideas with our whole class.
Great thoughts! Now lets look at these pictures on this next slide. These are pictures of
the scrapbook pages that I made of our class Christmas party. I didnt include a picture or a
description of everything that we did at our party. I just included pictures and descriptions of the
highlights or the main things that we did. These scrapbook pages dont give us a whole lot of
details or a lot of information, but they show us the most important parts of the party and would
give someone who didnt go to the party a pretty good idea of what happened. This is what a
summary does. As we can see from the definition on this next slide, a summary is a short
statement that gives the most important information about something. So if I gave you a
summary of what I did yesterday, would I tell you all the details of what I did yesterday? No!
What would I tell you about? Very good! I would tell you about the most important parts of my
day yesterday, the main things that I did yesterday. Remember, summaries are short because
we dont include all the extra details. Now lets pause for a minute. Think for a minute about
what you did yesterday, and then give your neighbor a summary of what you did yesterday, only
telling them the main things you did without telling a lot of details.
Would anyone like to share their summary? Very good, but there are a few too many
details in your summary. How about if instead of describing everything that you ate for dinner,
you just say and then I ate dinner Would anyone else like to share? Very good, you told me
all the main things you did yesterday from breakfast to bedtime without getting caught up in a lot
of details. Now lets take some time for you all to write down in your notebooks our definition of a
summary, and then an illustration of what a summary isyou can use words and pictures.
Very creative illustrations! Some of you drew something big and detailed and then drew
something smaller with the less important details left off and some of you drew a picture of a book
and a picture of a paper with some sentences on it. I think you guys have a good idea of what a
summary is. Now lets talk about creating summaries for a story. Remember how weve been
talking about how stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end? A good summary tells us the
most important events of the beginning, the middle, and the end of a story without giving us too
many details. Remember that we learned that stories also have a main idea? A lot of times the
main idea of the story is what we call a moral. If you look at the next PowerPoint slide, we see
our definition of a moral, a lesson that teaches us about right and good versus wrong and
foolishness. An example of a moral is found in the story about the hare and the tortoise that we
read last week. Do you remember what we learned form that story? Right! Slow and steady
wins the race! Can anyone else give me an example of a moral from a story they know?
Very good! Exactly! Now lets write our definition of a moral in our notebooks and lets also
include an example of a moral. The main idea or moral of the story is a very important part of the
story. Do you think we should include the main idea or moral of a story in a summary of that
story? Of course! A good summary should tell us the most important events of the beginning,
the middle, and the end of the story and should also include the main idea or moral of the story!
Someone should be able to read your summary of the story and know what happens in the story
and what the story is about. Now I want everyone to get into your groups of four and talk through
a good summary of The Tortoise and the Hare. Then, well come back together into a large
group and I will call on you to share your summaries.
Yes! That was a great summary! Can anyone tell me why that groups summary of the
The Tortoise and the Hare was a good summary? What did it include? What didnt it include?
Very good! Youve got it!


Part 2: (In this area, you are going to assess your students. What did they learn in Part 1?)

Guide them to create with the Web2.0 tool. Be specific.
Something
Now that were summary experts, lets learn how to use an online tool that will make our
summaries come alive: Blabberize! Blabberize is a program that makes pictures talk by giving
them a mouth and a voice that we record ourselves! We call these talking pictures Blabbers.
Lets turn our attention to these PowerPoint slides that list the steps to create a Blabber with
Blabberize.
1) Go to blabberize.com
2) Click on login/sign up
3) Create a username and password for Blabberize and enter your email address
4) Write down your account information so you dont forget it!
5) Click the word Make at the top of your screen
6) Click to on Browse to find and select a picture stored on your computer
7) Move the pink dots to make your picture the size you want
8) Move the big red blob (the mouth) to where you want it.
9) Drag the small blue and green dots one at a time to make the mouth the size and
shape you want
10) The big green dot shows you how far the mouth will open. Drag it wherever you want
the mouth to open to
11) Click the arrow in the bottom right corner to move to the next step
12) Click on the picture of the microphone in the bottom right corner. When the
permission window pops up, click Allow
13) Click the red circle to start recording
14) Loudly and clearly speak your message into the microphone on your computer
15) Click on the red circle again to stop recording
16) Click on the arrow to move on to the next step
17) Click the purple play button to preview your Blabber
18) If you dont like any part of your Blabber, click one of the circles with the pictures on
them in the bottom left corner to go back to that section and fix it
19) When youre happy with your Blabber, go back to the last page and click the OK!
button in the bottom right corner.
20) Since were just making one scene, click the purple Save button
21) Enter a title, a description, and some tags (a couple key words that describe your
Blabber) for your Blabber
22) The Private and Mature buttons dont apply to us, so just click Save
23) Click the Share It! button
24) Copy the HTML code in the second box

Then, tell them what content you want them to add to the tool. Again, you want them to show you
you what they learned from Part.1 through the use of the tool.

Okay, now were ready to create a Blabberized summary with our own audio recordings and
drawings! First, I want you to think about the story that we read yesterday, The Boy Who Cried
Wolf. Think about the most important things that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the
story. Think about what the moral of the story is. You can turn back to the story in your textbook
if youre having a hard time remembering something. After youve thought for a bit, write down
your short summary. Make sure that you include the important things that happened and the
moral of the story in your summary. Remember, summaries are short because we leave out all
the extra details! Then, I want you to draw the shepherd boy from the story. Ill come take a
picture of your drawing and well save it on your computer. Then, I want you to use Blabberize to
make a Blabber of your shepherd boy picture. Follow the steps on the PowerPoint slide. For the
voice recording on your Blabber, I want you to read your summary as if you were the shepherd
boy. For example, you would say I am the shepherd boy and I told the townspeople that a wolf
was attacking my sheep. Alright! Lets think, write, draw, record, and create! When you are
finished creating your summary Blabber, copy the HTML code for your Blabber and email it to
me. I will post them on our class website tonight and we can view them all as a class tomorrow.
I will be right here to help you at any time as you create your Blabbers.

Student sample URL: http://blabberize.com/view/id/1124816


Lesson Closure ( 3 questions specific to the teaching above.)

1) What is important to include in a summary?
2) Summaries are short because we leave out what?
3) What is an example of a moral?


MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY NEEDED FOR THE LESSON:
1. Promethean board
2. PowerPoint
3. Laptop to control the Promethean board
4. A laptop equipped with a microphone for each student
5. Internet access
6. Notebooks for each student
7. Pencils
8. Drawing paper
9. Crayons, colored pencils, or markers.


EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES THAT WOULD BE USED WERE THEY AVAILABLE AND A
DESCRIPTION OF USE:
The students would use the Web 2.0 tool Blabberize to create a Blabber in order to present their
summaries with audio recordings and drawings.


REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING AND LEARNING:
1. As you reflect on the lesson, how did it actually unfold as compared to what you had
anticipated happening as you did your planning? IIIC

2. Provide the data/information that you have used to determine your students progress
toward this lessons goals. Include individual and group information. IIIA and IIIC

3. How will you use your students performance today as you envision the next step for these
students in learning? IIIC and Planning Domain

4. If you were to teach this lesson again to these students, what changes would you make?
IIIC

5. As you reflect over this lesson, what ideas or insights are you discovering about your
teaching? IIIC

6. How did your choices and actions of classroom management support student learning?