Tyler Pham

EDUC-310-01
Dr. Mike Scarlett
Tech-Integrated Lesson Plan
01/25/2018

The content:
1. Previous Learning: In previous lessons, students have learned basic writing rules and
how to write a successful piece of fiction. This lesson will focus on practicing writing
and giving feedback. Students will write their own short stories and use artworks to
illustrate them using Storybird. This lesson is intended to build students’ writing and
creative skills. Therefore, it addresses ISTE standard 1, specifically 1a and 1d.
2. In future lessons, I hope to develop students’ writing skill even further. They will
learn to write more complex pieces of writing, like an argumentative essay or a poem.
The environment:
3. Most of my resources will be readily available online, so they are easy for students to
access. Students can choose to view the resources on their computers or print them out
to view on paper. Students will be seated in groups, which will enhance discussion.
Although they won’t do this assignment in groups, they will have an opportunity to
give feedback to their peers’ works.
The Lesson
Unit Title: Writing Fiction: An Interactive Workshop
Grade: 11th grade
Prelude:
Performance Objective:
1. Students will be able to create graphic stories using their writing skill and teacher’s
instruction on how to use Storybird.
2. Students will be able present their stories to the class using their oral presentation
skill.
3. Students will be able to write meaningful and constructive feedbacks on their
classmates’ stories.

Rationale:
By having students write their stories on an online platform and share them with their peers,
students practice writing narratives with effective techniques and good use of details. They
can also learn to use technology to share, produce and receive responses on their written
works. These learning goals relate to Common Core Standards for English Language Arts,
Writing grade 11 standards 3 and 6.

Materials:
1. Computers with Internet connection.
2. Smartboard.

Accommodations for Exceptional Learners:

For ELL students, I will give them more time to write their pieces. I will also have support
for visually impaired students (assistants to type in their works).
Academic language:
a. Language Function: Apply. Students will apply what they have learned about writing
to write their own stories.
b. Learning task: During the lesson on writing fiction, students will write their own
stories about their New Year Resolutions on the Storybird app and share with their
classmates.
c. Additional Language Demands:
• Vocabulary: Fiction, Storybird, feedback, comment, discussion, presentation.
• Discourse: Students will share their written works with their small groups orally,
therefore gaining the ability to communicate with peers. They will also practice their writing
and technology using skills.
d. Language supports: The teacher will explain to students how to use Storybird and how
to log in to the classroom’s page. He/she will demonstrate the expectation of the task and
instruct students on how to do the assignment. He/she will also show one example of the
story that he/she had written.

Grouping strategy:
Students will write their stories individually. Then they will discuss and give feedbacks to
their classmates in groups of 3.

Assessment strategy:
Their performance in their written assignments will demonstrate their understanding of their
knowledge and how well they incorporate it into their works.
Enactment:

Hook: 5 min.
- Remind students of what the class had done previously (learning how write stories and
basic writing skill).
- Introduce Storybird, its features and how it relates to this lesson’s activities.
- Reveal today’s activity to students (they will write stories on Storybird, choose
artworks to illustrate their stories, show them to the class, and give comments to their
peers).

Student Aim: 5 min.

- Establish this lesson’s aims to students: to practice writing narratives, improve writing
with technology, creativity, and oral communication.

Activity: 1 hour and 10 minutes.

- Ask students to log themselves on the class’s page on Storybird and have them choose
their usernames.
- Establish the writing assignment: write a story about your New Year Resolution. In
the story, tell me what your resolution is, which events led to your decision and how it
relates to your personal growth and achievement. Then talk about the requirements for
the assignment: the stories must have the necessary components of a narrative. They
 must be written in a mature tone and delivered to the appropriate audience. Students
can use the artworks on Storybird to illustrate their stories.
- The teacher then show one story he/she had written to demonstrate one example of the
assignment so students will have clearer sense of what to expect.
- Students will work individually on their stories online, using their Chromebooks or
iPads.
- Students will have 40 minutes to write the first draft of their narratives and post them
on Storybird. While students are working on their stories, the teacher monitors the
activity by walking around classroom and answer questions.
- After they have posted their stories on Storybird, the students will each come to the
Smartboard and tell the class a brief overview of their stories, with their illustrated
stories present on the board. They will also show the class why they chose their
artworks for their stories.
- For homework, students will be assigned in groups of 3 to read each other’s stories
and post comments on their peers’ works under the comment section. They are
welcome to read all of the stories, but are required to comment on their group mates’
works.

Culmination/ Leap: 5 min.

- Remind students of what they have done today and what they have learned: practice
writing skill on an online format, creativity and technology using skill.
- Remind students of homework.
- For next class: learn about poems and basic rules of rhyming.