Independent Technology Project

Rachel Morgan
Educ W200
Fall 2016

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Introduction
This Independent Technology Project was created for my EDUC W200
class at IPFW.
This lesson plan is for the subject of reading and is intended for fourth
grade students. This lesson plan is a weeklong unit section that
revolves around the story Because of Winn Dixie from the students
Reading Street Readers. This unit section involves a grammar lessons
on declarative and interrogative sentences as well. This lesson will also
allow students to become familiar and use apps on an iPad as a
supplemental learning tool.
This unit section will take place during the assigned reading rotations
time each day of the week. At the beginning of the week students will
be introduced to the story, vocabulary words and grammar concept
they will be learning/reviewing in the week and on Friday they will be
tested over these concepts. Throughout the week students will be
doing three reading rotations a day. Each rotation will be different and
cover different concept points being reviewed during this week.
Technology will be incorporated into this lesson plan in that students
will be using iPads to listen to the story of the week and to review
vocabulary words using the app Spelling City. By incorporating the use
of technology into this lesson plan I believe it will allow students
another learning tool to ensure they grasp the concept of the week.

Contents

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Introduction........1
Table of Contents..2
Standards and Materials.3
Weekly Schedule...4-5
Assessment6
Reflection Page...7-8
Resources..9

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Standards and Materials

Grade: Fourth
Objectives: By the end of this unit students will have read the story
and answered comprehension questions and be able to fully articulate
what happened and why things happened in the story. Students will
also be able to explain the different vocabulary words that were used
throughout the story. As well, students will have an understanding of
declarative and interrogative sentences.

Standards:
4.RF.1: Apply foundational reading skills to demonstrate reading
fluency and comprehension.
4.RN.2.1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining
what a text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
4.W.6.1e: Usage Writing correctly complete simple, compound, and
complex declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
sentences, using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions (e.g.,
yet, nor, so).
NETS-S Standards- #5- Digital Citizenship and #6 Technology
operations and concepts
NETS- T Standards- #1- Facilitate and Inspire student learning and
creativity and #4 Promote and model digital citizenship and
responsibility

Materials:

Reading Street Textbook

iPads
Worksheets
o Reading Street workbook page 43 & 50
o Grammar page 1 and Reading Street workbook page 42
o DVD Page 96
o Reading Street workbook Page 45
Pencil
Headphones
End of Unit section test

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Weekly Schedule
Monday: Introduction to the Unit and vocabulary words; preview story
and build background. Review the Grammar concept of the week,
declarative and interrogative sentences, and put notes over them in
notebook
Tuesday: Reading Rotations
Rotation #1 (15 minutes)- Grammar Worksheet-Declarative &
Interrogative Sentences

Work individually or quietly with a partner on Reading

Street workbook page 43 & 50 using their notebook with
grammar notes to help

Rotations #2 (15 minutes) - Read to each other or listen to

story on iPads

If using an iPad- put headphones in and listen to the

story being read aloud to you
If partner reading- sit face-to-face and reading quietly
aloud to each other. One person reads one page and the
other then reads the next

Rotation #3 (15 minutes) - Vocabulary Review- flashcards and

games on Spelling City

Open iPad and go into the Spelling City app and click on
Unit 1 Week 1 Because of Winn Dixie to review the
vocabulary words
Or, with a partner use vocabulary flashcards to review
http://www.scottsboro.org/~flewis/SF%20Reading
%20Street/Fourth%20Grade/Fourth%20Grade
%20Reading%20Street%20Online%20Games.htm
Wednesday: Reading Rotations
Rotation #1-Grammar Worksheet-Declarative & Interrogative
Sentences

Grammar Page 1 and Reading Street workbook page 42

Rotation #2- Finish reading to each other or listening to story

on iPads
Rotation #3-Vocabulary Review- flashcards and games on
Spelling City

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Thursday: Reading Rotations

Rotation #1-Grammar Worksheet-Declarative & Interrogative
Sentences

Unit 1 Week 1 Interactive review page 96

Rotation #2- Answer Critical Thinking Question #1-4 at the

end of the story and complete worksheet over Story Sequence

Reading Street Workbook page 45

Rotation #3-Vocabulary Review- flashcards and games on

Spelling City

Friday: Quiz

Seven multiple choice vocabulary questions

Eight comprehension multiple choice questions
Ten questions over declarative and interrogative
sentences.

Assessment

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On Friday, students will be tested over the vocabulary words they

learned with this unit section, comprehension questions, and
declarative and interrogative sentences. The quiz is two pages front
and back with a total of 25 questions. The first page will cover the
vocabulary words, the next two the comprehension questions and the
last page will cover the grammar. Before handing out the quiz I will
review the definition of the vocabulary words with the students as well
as what a declarative sentence and interrogative sentence is and how
you can tell them apart.

Reflection Questions

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What have you learned from this project?

From this project, I have learned how to organize an entire weeklong
unit into a lesson for each day. I also learned how to use Canvas better
and how to organize it well for students to be able to use.

What were your most useful resources in

completing this project?
The most useful resources I used in completing this project were the
Reading Street workbook, observation of teachers I work with to get
the idea of using reading rotations, as well as Canvas. I also currently
run a reading rotation group which as been an advantage and resource
in creating this project to be functional and useful for each student to
succeed.

How will/could you share or use this project?

I could share this project with other education students I am currently
in class with as well as sharing it with future teachers I work with once I
get my teaching license. I hope to be a fourth or fifth grade teacher
and so I do believe at some point in my career I could come back and
use this project.

What are some other possible applications of

the technology you have learned and used to
complete this project?
I used resources from the Internet to complete this project including
the Reading Street website, Spelling City, and Canvas. I believe
technology such as Canvas can be used widely as a teacher to help
keep the students in loop in every subject.

How could this project be further improved?

As of right now, a couple ways I believe this project could be improved
would be to incorporate Canvas more into the project. While students
can find the outline of the weeks activities on the Canvas page as well
as the scanned copies of the worksheets, I think to further improve this
project I could add more activities for the students to do through the
Canvas page such as discussion posts or taking the end of the week
test through Canvas.

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If this is a student project, how will it be

evaluated?
The students will be evaluated at the end of the week through a test.
The test will evaluate how well the students know the vocabulary
words from the story, the comprehension questions, and the grammar
they have been reviewing all week.

Has this project led you to think about other

technologies you would like to use explore and
master? If so, what are they?
Yes I would love to explore more learning management systems
besides Canvas that can be used to electronically organize a classroom
such as Blackboard.

Resources
Lewis, Frieda. "Reading Street 4 Voc: Because of
Winn-Dixie." Reading Street 4 Voc: Because of

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Winn-Dixie 4th Grade Freida Lewis Woodville High

School Woodville AL. Spelling City, n.d. Web. 29
Nov. 2016.
Goodman, Danielle. 4th Grade Reading Street
Common Core 2013 Edition (n.d.): n. pag. 4th
Grade Reading Street Common Core 2013 Edition.
Web. 29 Nov. 2016.
"Reading Street Unit 1." Mrs. Wolford's Classroom
Website. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
WFSteacher. "Winn Dixie Reading." YouTube.
YouTube, 27 Sept. 2012. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.