PS 347 American Sign Language and English Lower School s2

PS 347 American Sign Language and English Lower School 4th grade Library Media Center Skills 2010-11 Unit 5: What do you know about your animal or planet? Approx dates: April - May 2011 Informational text study: taking notes and sharing your knowledge in ASL Reading:  RI.4.9/5.9. Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgably. Speaking/Listening:  SL.4.4/5.4. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.  SL.4.5/5.5. Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes. ASL:  Signing and viewing for meaning: Students create background knowledge of a subject using primary language in order to booster comprehension. Rationale: Why is it important to learn these things? Note taking that captures the reading of informational text and the reflecting on it and making meaning of it is a complex reading experience for a child. In this unit, the note taking is done in what is the primary language of most of the children. I want to see if that improves their comprehension and their perception of comprehension. They will learn about one animal or one planet (or star) as part of their science curriculum and share their knowledge with a friend using the flip cameras. Key Teaching Points: Includes specific grammar and punctuation study. Read Aloud and Literature Discussion / Mentor Texts:  When Reading informational text finding a main idea can help us to understand what was interesting in a book Demo of note taking preview using very easy informational texts  Main ideas is what the book is mostly about; supporting details prove Demo of finding a main idea and supporting details demo using a simple that the main idea is true. animal or planet book  Signing and viewing for meaning: using ASL to construct knowledge in Demo of using a quadrant note taking graphic organizer using PebbleGo primary language Animals for one group, and PebbleGo Earth and Space for another group  With animal or planet research, there are certain kinds of important information  Sharing knowledge with others helps us learn. How? They might know something and articulating what you know help you understand it even better.

Vocabulary to model, imbed in conversation, encourage and notice: Assessment/Final Product: How will you know your students have learned this? Include metalanguage for students to use to talk about their learning and  Quadrant graphic organizer thinking.  Main idea > supporting details graphic organizer main idea, supporting details. For planets: rotation, revolution, distance, core,  Video clips of what they learned etc. For animals, body, habitat, life cycle, and food.  Survey of learning on http://newatthelibrary.blogspot.com

Evaluation: What worked well, what needed to be changed, what resources were Learning Environment: How will this learning be visible in your room? Revised by Sara May 2011 helpful? I posted the graphic organizers and we viewed the video clips during library.

They loved watching themselves on the video camera. I will amend my survey because I found that writing what they remembered wasn’t important and to have to articulate it in English wasn’t my goal.

Mainly I wanted to know if they understand more due to the added step of signing what they learned to a friend. Did including the primary language and social interaction booster learning?

Revised by Sara May 2011