Moving Up to High School

I. CONTENT: I want my students to build their concept and vocabulary development while reading meaningful text.
II. INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES:
• The student will read a meaningful text either with support or alone.
• The student will create a memory book containing pictures with captions of an experience that will help them prepare for their move to high school.
• The student will match key vocabulary words with pictures.
• Given a cloze exercise in which a key word of the text has been deleted, the student will fill in the blank with the assistance of a word bank.
III. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY:
The class will develop a picture language experience story together. An experience will be set up and carried out by the group- taking a field trip to the high school the students will be moving up to next year.
IV. INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES:
• Choose the experience and focus the student’s attention. This particular lesson’s experience will be the high school the students will be moving up to next year. A picture of the high school will be shown.
• Develop a plan of action with the class. The class will plan a visit to the high school. The students will walk around the high school and meet key people, see key places and things. The camera will be brought so pictures can be taken. The plan will be typed in word processing and projected on the big screen.
• Conduct the experience. The class will visit the high school and the teacher will take pictures and emphasize the vocabulary associated with key people, places, and things as they are encountered.
• Develop a written account. Upon return to the classroom, discuss the experience. The pictures will be downloaded and viewed on the screen using TOOL FACTORY SLIDE SHOW SOFTWARE. The class will work together to develop a written account of what was done. The teacher may need to stimulate or focus the discussion by asking wh-questions about the pictures--- Who did you see? What were we doing? Students will dictate a description of events in the activity while the teacher types for everyone to see (on the screen).
• Create a memory book of the experience. Together the class will create a class memory book containing the pictures and descriptions of the high school visit downloaded into a SLIDE SHOW using TOOL FACTORY SOFTWARE.
• Read the account. Once the text is complete, the teacher can read it aloud to the class, focusing on key words and phrases, and then the students can participate in Shared Reading.
V. MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT:
• Computer
• Color printer
• LCD Projector & screen
• TOOL FACTORY SLIDE SHOW SOFTWARE
• Digital Camera for taking pictures of the experience
• Supplies for making a memory book: there are various options for how to publish- photo album; scrapbook; cardstock, binding and laminating machines; presentation folders, etc.
VI. ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION:
• The student read the memory book either with support or alone.
• The student made a memory book containing pictures with captions of their high school visit.
• The student will match key vocabulary words with pictures with at least 80% accuracy.
• Given a cloze exercise in which a key word of the text has been deleted, the student will fill in the blank with the assistance of a word bank with at least 80% accuracy.