MMSD Linking Technology & Literacy

Grouchy Ladybug

Grade Level: 2

Standards | Lesson Plan | Template | Assessment

Standards

Language Arts Standards

  • Generates ideas before writing
  • Use words that make writing interesting and personal
  • Reads own writing
  • Edit final copies for grammar,capitalization, punctuation
  • Participates in group discussion

6 Traits + 1

  • Ideas
  • Word choice
  • Conventions
  • Presentation

Technology Standards

  • Uses a word processing program to compose, edit, and print sentences or paragraph
  • Uses a word processing program to import graphics
  • Uses a graphics program to modify and add detail to a picture

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Lesson Plan

Purpose:

  • To create an original graphic
  • To open a text box, input and edit text
  • To use the keyboard to write sentences with quotation marks
  • To set time on a clock face

Step by Step:

Step 1 Read the story The Grouchy Ladybug, by Eric Carle to the class.
Step 2 Talk about what part of the story repeats over and over.
Step 3 Write these sentences on the board: At 4 o’clock the grouchy ladybug saw a bumblebee. "Want to fight?" said the grouchy ladybug. "If you insist," said the bumblebee showing her stinger.
Step 4 Discuss the quotation marks. Demonstrate how to make quotation marks on the keyboard.

Step 5

 Assign each student a time of day. Each will draw that time on their clock face.
Step 6 Each student can pick an animal for the ladybug to visit. Think about what that animal uses to defends itself ie. stinger, teeth.
Step 7 Students will draw a picture (or use stamps) of their animal and a ladybug.
Step 8 Then, use the text tool to write the repetitive sentences from the story that go with their picture, including quotation marks correctly used.
Step 9 Remember to fill in the correct time on your clock.
Step 10 This activity can be modified for ability of students. Beginning level is just the three sentences from above. More advanced writers can add more of the ideas from the book.

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Example of Finished Project

 

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Assessment

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