Author+Study+Activities


 * __ Activity 1: Introduction to our Author Study - __** 2 nd Grade

Goals: The main goal of this lesson is to introduce and build excitement for the author study of poet Kenn Nesbitt. Students will begin to build knowledge of the author and his work.

Objectives:
 * Students will be able to identify Kenn Nesbitt by photograph and his occupation.
 * Students will be able to share a fact about Kenn Nesbitt.

Standards Addressed: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1b Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.2 Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

ISTE NETS
Demonstrate safe and cooperative use of technology. (5) Demonstrate the ability to navigate in virtual environments such as electronic books, simulation software, and websites. (6)

Prior Knowledge:
 * Students will be able to log in their computer in the computer lab.
 * Students will know how to open the library website, click on links, and navigate back on websites.
 * Students will know how to use headphones in the lab and change the volume on their computer.
 * Students will know how to pair/share.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Materials:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reserve the library and computer lab.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Build author tri-fold with a photograph, biographical highlights, book covers, and sample poems.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Build a Kenn Nesbitt webpage linked to the library website. There will be links to his website (www.poetry4kids.com/), a Google form questionnaire for students, photographs, a Shelfari booklist and poems.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bookmarks for Google form prizes.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will bring their poetry binders from the classroom poetry unit (put together and introduced by classroom teachers).

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lesson Overview: This introductory lesson will immerse students in our author study. The link from the library website will encourage students to learn more about our author and read more of Kenn Nesbitt’s work from home and free time in the computer lab. The tri-fold poster will offer a physical, visual display during 2nd grade library times and the book crate of his books will allows access to his work in the library and the classroom during Daily 5 and free reading time.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lesson Procedures: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Introduction <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Main activity <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Conclusion—how you will provide closure for students and provide feedback. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Extension <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assessment:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Show a picture of Kenn Nesbitt and ask if anyone knows whom he is.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read one of his poems and ask what he does.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Share that he is a poet and ask what a poet does.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Share the tri-fold board-read excerpts of his biography and another poem. Show the display of his books.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Introduce the author study and how it will fit in the larger classroom poetry unit.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Share today’s goals and brainstorm how we can help make a share/pair successful.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will log in to their computer in the lab. On the projector, I will first show them how to get to the Kenn Nesbitt website. I will then show them some of the highlights; how to read, listen, and watch videos of some of his poems and his biography.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I will remind them that they need to find one interesting fact to share and write it in their poetry binder.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will have approximately 15 minutes to explore his website.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The classroom teacher and I will help students in the lab, checking in to ask questions and maintain focused exploration.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will log off their computer and gather back in the story area for pair/share.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I will ask for one or two students to share their fun fact.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I will show the photograph of Kenn Nesbitt again and ask a student who it is and what he does.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I will preview the next week’s lesson on Kenn Nesbitt.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students could play some of the poetry games on his website.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students could look through his books and read some poems individually or in small groups.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Observe the students’ exploration and navigation of his website.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Check in with students and ask questions for understanding of material during exploration.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Observe and listen as students participate in a pair/share.


 * __ Activity 2: Writing Poetry __**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Goals: The goal of this lesson is to reinforce rhyming, introduce couplets and begin to write couplets. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Objectives:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will be able to recognize rhyming words.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will be able to describe a couplet.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will create couplets in small groups

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Standards Addressed: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">CC.2.4.a Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">CC.2.4 Craft and Structure: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">CC.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">CC.2.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">CC.3.1 Plan, organize, write and publish narratives for intended audiences and purposes.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Prior Knowledge: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Materials: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lesson Overview: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">After introducing rhyming and couplets, students will listen to rhyming poetry by Kenn Nesbitt and rhyming couplets in I Spy books. They will then work in two groups to write their own couplets. Back in the classrooms, students will continue to write rhyming poetry in small groups and individually. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Mr. Nesbitt’s work, I Spy couplets, and co-writing our own poem in two groups with models of the form, will allow students to progress toward writing their own poems for their poetry books and poetry café (classroom project). We will move back and forth between reading and writing poems for support on the structure being studied. Working in groups will provide students with the opportunity to cooperate, learn from each other, and express opinions in a safe and structured environment.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A majority of students will be able to identify rhyming words read aloud to them.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will be familiar with the use of a graphic organizer.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will bring their poetry binders from the classroom poetry unit (put together and introduced by classroom teachers).
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Laptop and overhead projector with internet and speakers
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Rhyming lesson video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hGyLcNBZoM
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Two I Spy books
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Two trays with many small objects (or 2 pages of the I Spy books projected through the document camera with the writing covered)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lesson Procedures: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Introduction <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Main activity <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">High, Fly these words rhyme <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">High, Fly these words rhyme <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">High, Fly these words rhyme <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">So rhyme along with me
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will meet in the story area and bring along their poetry binders and a pencil.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I will share the day’s lesson objectives and activities with students.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">After the introduction, we will watch the Kenn Nesbitt video lesson on rhyming.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">We will sing this song (to the tune of Skip to My Lou)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will take turns generating the two rhyming words (focusing on struggling students) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Conclusion <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Extension <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assessment: Describe the assessment you will use to evaluate students’ learning. The description should present a clear relationship among the assessment, the content, and the skills taught during the lesson.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I will introduce couplets and we will read a few pages of an I Spy book (all are written in couplets).
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">We will divide the students into two groups and present a tray of objects to each group. The classroom teacher and I will each work with a group to write some couplets in their poetry binders.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">We will regroup after writing couplets and each group will share their couplet(s) with the other group.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">We will conclude by reading rhyming poetry by Kenn Nesbitt and sharing with students how he puts couplets together to form longer poems. (Students will be writing more rhyming poems in their binders in their classrooms during Daily 5 time).
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students can put couplets together to form longer rhyming poems.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students can write couplets in smaller break out groups or individually.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students can be encouraged to use two and three syllable rhyming words.
 * In the computer lab, students can go to the ReadWriteThink rhyming game [|Construct-a-Word] at http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/ to create a list of rhyming words. They can then print their words to use in their own poetry.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Observe the student's rhyming in the song, group poetry writing and participation. Notice if he/she applies the skills learned during the rhyming lesson.


 * __ Activity 3: Culminating Project __**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Goals: Students will create either a Wixie or a Photostory slideshow. Each presentation will include a poem by Kenn Nesbitt, a student poem with an illustration, a text-to-self connection and a text-to-text connection. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Objectives: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Standards Addressed: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">CC.2.5 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">CC.2.4.b Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will create a presentation using Wixie or Photostory.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will display their knowledge of their chosen digital format by including pictures, text and a voice recording.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will display their knowledge of Kenn Nesbitt and poetry.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will showcase their own poetry and communication skills through the audio recording.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">ISTE NETS: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Illustrate and communicate original ideas and stories using digital tools and media-rich resources. (1,2)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Prior Knowledge:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Previous Whittier students have a basic knowledge of Wixie from kindergarten and 1st grade.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Photostory will be modeled in the previous unit.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Basic computer navigational skills gained from weekly computer lab lessons.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Materials:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">District subscription to Wixie
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reserved time in the computer lab
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student artwork completed during art class or during computer lab time on Wixie
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student poetry binders
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Scanner
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">iPad for voice recording in Wixie or Photostory
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Laptop, projector and speakers for Poetry Café
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Parent volunteers to help with typing

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lesson Overview: Students will work in the computer lab with at least two teachers on either Wixie or Photostory. They will create a presentation using a rubric and include the following: a favorite poem of Kenn Nesbitt with an explanation of that poetry form, a student poem with an illustration, a text to self connection to a poem, and a text to text connection.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lesson Procedures: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Introduction
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Poetry Café will be previously introduced by classroom teachers.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Presentation rubric and objectives will be shared with students.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will come to the library computer lab with their chosen poems highlighted in their poetry binders.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student artwork will be scanned into their private folders if using Photostory.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Main activity <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Conclusion <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• Extension <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assessment:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">ESL and SPED students will be supported in their small group breakouts.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Parent volunteers will help with typing.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will be divided in two groups (Wixie and Photostory)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The appropriate website will be sent to student computers (We use Interclass software). Students will use a template created in each program.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sentence frames will support ESL and SPED students.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">After the artwork, poems and connections have been added, students will rotate through an iPad stations to voice record their poem.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student work will be checked at the end of the computer lab.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students who need more time to finish, will work on their presentations in the classrooms on iPads.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students can add additional slides to their presentations.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students can mentor others as needed with the technology.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Monitor student progress on Wixie and Photostory, using the presentation rubric and anecdotal note taking, as they work independently and with parent volunteers.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Check the finished presentation for: a favorite poem of Kenn Nesbitt with an explanation of that poetry form, a student poem with an illustration, communication skills (both visual and oral) a text to self connection to a poem, and a text to text connection.