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Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction Lesson Plan Outline

1. Lesson Title: Stranger in the Woods

2. Date of Implementation: January 2008

3. Lesson Author(s): Leslie Mead

4. Subject Area(s): Language Arts

5. Grade Level: 2

6. Approximate Time Needed: 3 hours

7. PA Content Standard(s): Language Arts: 1.1 types of text, 1.2 read/write in various forms, 1.3 interpreting literature, 1.4 sentence structure, 1.6 listening Math: 2.9 symmetry, 2.1 number relationships, patterns

8. Objectives/Lesson Outcomes: Students will: -listen to a story and be able to give an accurate retell - complete a cyberhunt -recognize symmetry -produce a poem using nouns and adjectives -write quotes using quotation marks and speech bubbles -recognize contractions -follow directions related to patterning and ordinal numbers

9. Materials and Resources Required: A. Technology (include location and equipment): Student PC’s (classroom or lab) Internet Website: http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/stran/stranger.html

TV/VCR

B. Printed Materials: Book- “Stranger in the Woods” Video/DVD- “Stranger in the Woods”

C. Other Supplies: coffee filters for paper snowflakes, poetry frame worksheets, copies of five frosty snowman mini book for each child, snowman/hat worksheet on cardstock, white construction paper/crayons

10. Lesson Procedures: -Preview the story “Stranger in the Woods”. Ask: -What time of year is it? -Who do you think the stranger is? -Where did the stranger come from? -What animals do you see in the pictures? -Read the story “Stranger in the Woods” aloud to the class. -Go to the website above and do the Cyberhunt. Children may also wish to do the activities linked to the hunt that relate to the story. -Center Activities - Make paper snowflakes. Discuss symmetry. - Write a poem using the noun/adjective poetry frame with the topic of “snow”. - Complete the “Five Frosty Snowmen” mini books. - Using the snowman/hat templates, write contractions on the snowman and the matching words on the hat. -Make a snowman chain (like paper dolls) with 4 snowmen. Children decorate each snowman according to the teacher’s directions. (ie. Draw a blue hat on the 4th snowman, make the buttons on the snowmen in a pattern using shapes) -Watch the video “Stranger in the Woods”.

11. Modifications for Differentiated Instruction: A. Remediation: Peer helpers will be used for Center activities.

B. Enrichment: Students can write a similar story to “Stranger in the Woods” Using a different setting. (ie, stranger under the sea, stranger at the Beach)

12. Student Assessment: -performance on the cyberhunt -rubric for each center activity -oral retell of the story