Category

Criterion
Name of Course/Class:
Course- Writing
Class- Bringing Our Stories to Life
Grade Level: 1st Grade

Technology/Resources/Materials:
Background

1 per student:

1 per class:

Tech- Google Chromebook

Resource-Anchor Chart
Material- Writing Folder
Red Pen

Tech-Smart Board
Web 2.0 tools
Powtoon video

Accommodations
One-on-One Instruction
Small Group Instruction
Larger lined paper for handwriting

Modifications

Write part of the story and verbally tell the rest

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Orient
the
leaner:

Essential Question:
How do writers stretch their small moments across several pages?
What are good habits of good writers?
Objectives
Learners will be able to tell small moment stories by creating a foldable and bring them to life by making characters move and speak
with 80% accuracy.

Standards:
NJCCCS

RL.1.2. Retell stories, including

key details, and demonstrate
understanding of their central
message or lesson.

RL.1.4. Identify words and

phrases in stories or poems that
suggest feelings or appeal to the
senses.

Common Core
CCSS.ELALITERACY.W.1.3
Write narratives in which
they recount two or more
appropriately sequenced
events, include some details
regarding what happened, use
temporal words to signal
event order, and provide
some sense of closure.

NJCCCS for Technology

ISTE

8.1.2.A.5

Creative Communicator

Enter information into a

spreadsheet and sort the
information.

Students communicate clearly

and express themselves
creatively for a variety of
purposes using the platforms,
tools, styles, formats and digital
media appropriate to their goals.

CCSS.ELALITERACY.W.1.5
With guidance and support
from adults, focus on a topic,
respond to questions and
suggestions from peers, and
add details to strengthen
writing as needed.
2

Interdisciplinary Standards
Common Core

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.1.A
Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Anticipatory Set/Hook/Daily Review: Watch a Powtoon video on the SmartBoard of an engaging small
moment story narrated by the speaker of an exciting small moment. This video will include sound, dialog,
and a lot of movement.
complete: 5 mins

Instructional
Design:

Time to

Input/Modeling or Present Information: Use anchor chart to show what are good examples of describing words
and actions. Write down examples on writing easel of words that we come up with as a group.
Talk about how certain words/emotion/dialog help to bring story to life.

Time to complete:

Check for Understanding/Provide Learner Guidance: Ask for examples of good details from the story
that brought it to life. Use web 2.0 tool Quizizz on Smart Board during presenting information to assess
if learners can put words or phrases into different categories and into spreadsheet.

Time to complete: 5 mins

5 mins

Guided Practice with coaching /Elicit Performance: Use teacher example of small moment story. With class add details
to bring story to life. Use red pen on Smartboard to edit story and cross out and replace with new words
and description. Call students up for active participation. Have students use anchor chart as resource and list we created to

work on making their stories come to life.

8 mins

Time to complete:

Independent Practice/Provide informative feedback: Work with their writing partners to

add details into their stories to make their characters come to life. Add feeling and movement to different
characters in their stories. Use red pens to edit writing by crossing out and replacing new words or phrases.
Time to
complete: 10 mins

Closure: Use web2.0 Accelerated Reader on chrome books to see if students can identify sequence of events, detail,
and closure from the initial story played through Powtoons.
mins

Time to complete: 5

Formal Assessment: Have students share what details they added into their stories whole group. Look for good examples of
description, verbs, and emotion to share with other students
Time to
complete: 4 mins

Enhance/Transfer: While cleaning up, have learners raise a hand and use reference sheet to give examples of
how to make our stories come to life. (make them move, make them talk, make them feel, make them think,
tell small details.)
complete: 3 mins

Time to

Student Feedback: What was your favorite part of this lesson? Could the lesson be taught a different way to be better understood?

Recommendatio
n:
Teacher Feedback: Did everything go smoothly? Were the learners actively engaged throughout the lesson? How else could technology be integrated into
the lesson?