MMSD Linking Technology & Literacy

Animalia

Grade Level: 2

Standards | Lesson Plan | Template | Assessment

Standards

Language Arts Standards

  • Use sentence structure cues to read for meaning
  • Generate ideas before writing
  • Use words that make writing interesting and personal
  • Edit final copy for grammar, capitalization, punctuation
  • Publish work

6 Traits + 1

  • Sentence Fluency
  • Word Choice
  • Presentation

Technology Standards

  • Uses a word processing program to enter and edit text
  • Uses a word processing program to open, save, and print a document
  • Uses a graphics program to create original work
  • Demonstrates beginning drawing and painting techniques using a variety of tools to modify, arrange, format and add detail to a picture

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Lesson Plan

Purpose:

  • To illustrate an alliteration
  • To use the keyboard to write sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization
  • To open a text box, input and edit text

Step by Step:

Step 1 Read Animalia, by Graeme Base to the class. Discuss the type of sentences used on each page of the story. This is called an alliteration. Look at how the author has added many pictures that begin with the same letter to each illustration in the book.
Step 2 Assign each child an alphabet letter. Use the pencil tool to create one large letter. They must think of an animal and an action that begin with that letter.
Step 3 Write a sentence. They can add adjectives, adverbs, or other words to their sentence which begin with the same letter.
Step 4 Draw a picture or use stamps to illustrate their sentence. (This is a great project to print and make into a class book.)

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Example of Finished Project

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