Week 12 Using Technology to Support Literacy Assingment #2

 Candidate’s Name: Heather Cuccia

Grade Level: 6^th Grade

Title of the lesson: Newspapers and Technology Today

Length of the lesson: 45 minutes

Central focus of the lesson (The central focus should align with the CCSS/content standards and support students to develop an essential literacy strategy and requisite skills for comprehending or composing texts in meaningful contexts) ●     what do you want your students to learn? Students are learning how to use technological tools to enhance their learning of literacy skills. ●     what are the important understandings and core concepts you want students to develop within the learning segment? Students are learning to enhance their development of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, spelling. writing and comprehension.

Knowledge of students to inform teaching (prior knowledge/prerequisite skills and personal/cultural/community assets) ●     What do students know, what can they do, what are they learning to do? Students know how to write in complete sentences and be able to put together a summary of key details. They are learning to properly use literacy skills in the right grammatical way. ●     What do you know about your students’ everyday experiences, cultural backgrounds and practices, and interests?  They come from different backgrounds but can come together to work as a group.

Common Core State Standards (List the number and text of the standard. If only a portion of a standard is being addressed, then only list the relevant part[s].) Common Core Learning Standards for ELA and Literacy) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.B Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.C Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.D Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.

Support literacy development through language (academic language) ●     Identify one language function (Collaborate Idea’s and put them on paper in the proper grammatical way) ●     Identify a key learning task from your plans that provide students opportunities to practice using the language function. (discuss in detail about a topic) ●     Describe language demands (written) students need to understand and/or use. Students must use correct grammatical ways to come up with a published work. Vocabulary ●     General academic terms: Describe, conversations, technological tools ●     Content specific vocabulary (Newspaper, Main Idea, Details, Grammatical) Sentence Level ●     Sentence structure, transitions/connectives, complex verb tenses (all will be used in this lesson) Discourse ●     Text structure, discussion

Learning objectives 1-    Students will be able to understand and develop their skills using literacy instruction and grammatical corrections. 2-    Students will be able to use technology to enhance their development of language and literacy

Formal and informal assessment (including type[s] of assessment and what is being assessed) Formal Assessment: Students will be putting together a newspaper article using pictures and writing pieces on a certain topic. They will be graded on 7 components such as phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, writing and comprehension. Informal Assessment: They will post their work on Edmodo.com and each student will make a comment on each other’s work/news article. ●     Explain how the design or adaptation of your assessment allows students with specific needs to demonstrate their learning. Consider all students, including students with IEPs, ELLs, struggling readers, and/or gifted students. Visual/ hands on learning will be done by integrating technology

Instructional procedure: Instructional strategies and learning tasks (including what you and the students will be doing) that support diverse student needs. Your design should be based on the following: Do Now: Show students a modern news paper article and how the format is laid out and point out that in a newspaper everything is spelled properly and that there is no room for error in terms of grammar. Mini Lesson: Check for things such as Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, writing and comprehension. Go over the proper ways to do each of the 7 components and let them be aware that this is what you are looking for when you read their articles. Next allow students to look online at some newspaper articles to get ideas on what topic they would like to do and state that they can pick their own topics such as animals, weather, history or up and coming events to do this newspaper article on. They can draw or take images found online to add to the article. Once completed they will upload it to Edmodo.com and each student in the class with comment on each other’s work online using Edmodo.com

Instructional resources and materials used to engage students in learning. Edmodo.com Newspaper Pencil Paper Google Search Computer/I Pad

Reflection: ●     Did your instruction support learning for the whole class and the students who need great support or challenge? Yes, this lesson allows for differentiated instruction through out the lesson by supporting technology use and access to visual and ●     What changes would you make to support better student learning of the central focus? None need to be made this lesson meets the needs of the students learning and central focus. ●     Why do you think these changes would improve student learning? Support your explanation from evidence of research and/or theory. Does not Apply.