Cyber lesson

1. HONEY BEE AND THE LAYZ FLY Cyber lesson AUTHOR: AESOP Retold by: BELYNDA NERRRISA JAMES DALLEY Recommended Grade Level: 3 Let’s Begin

2. Return Home Let’s continue Introduction Learning different comprehension skills and knowing how to use them appropriately will help you gain new information easily. Therefore, it is vital for you and me that we learn about these two sets of comprehension skills. These two comprehension skills are cause/effect , sequence of events and compare/contrast This lesson will help to less your frustration with comprehension and increase your reading skills. Click picture to see the different comprehension skills

3. Return Home Let’s continue Materials • Technology • Computers • Internet service • A disposable camera for students to take pictures about their family cupcake making activities Other materials We will be using a retold of Aesop Fable Clip here for original story http://www.umass.edu/aesop/content.php?n=0&i=1. Retold version: Slides and oral reading – Honey Bee and Lazy Slides only - Honey Bee and Lazy Fly

4. Return Home Let’s continue Before Click on picture to complete the sequence tasks Our focus here is on sequencing of events. Click on picture to complete the sequence activity

5. Return Home Let’s continue During STEP 1: Read ONLY the story title then make three predictions as to what the story is about. Prediction sheet- ONLY complete the first column Click me to see story title STEP 3 Please complete the Prediction sheet third column and reread the story. Then click here to see students and a teacher working sequencing a story When you have finish your reading of the story click me to complete sequence organizer. STEP 2 Continue with the reading of the story Honey Bee and Lazy Fly. Read two to three slides at a time. Then make new predictions while you read. Write your predictions in column two on the Prediction sheet.

6. Return Home Let’s continue After • Now you have finished playing that sequence game. How was the game and what pictures took the longest to sequence. • It is time to complete your own story using a sequence graphic organizer. Click here • to listen to Honey Bee and Lazy Fly. • A rewrite of Aesop Fable, ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’ • Instructions for the story rewrite • Read all the slides before you begin. • Decide what character you want to play. • Choose a new title for the story. • Complete the organizer • Write your story- do connect the story to a real life experience you have had and say what you would have done differently. • Right click on template and choose edit slide from the dialog box. • Click here for story rewrite template. Lets play a sequence game before we continue. Click here

7. Return Home Let’s continue Beyond Activities You have just learnt about the comprehension skill, Sequencing of Events. Sequencing of events is everywhere. There are specific sequences in the way people and animals operate. Activity #1 BOOK BINDING Click here to watch a movie about book binding. Then complete sequence activity about book binding. • Activity #2 • Purple Hairstreaks - Butterfly Life Cycle • Rise of the Purple Hairstreaks - Butterfly Life Cycle. Click on me to watch video about the life cycle of a butterfly. • Click me to read sequence words. Use the appropriate sequence words from this list to write an expository piece about the life cycle of the Purple Hairstreaks Butterfly Click me for expository writing template

8. Let’s continue Beyond Activities Continue Activity #3 Sequencing in a cooking activity-baking cupcakes! Watch the video. Then ask a member of your family to help made same cupcakes. You can do a write up about your cupcake making activity or just take pictures. Click here for cupcake video

9. Return Home Let’s continue Evaluation RUBRIC CLICK ON ME TO SEE HOW YOU WILL BE GRADED

10. Return Home Let’s continue Credits WEBSITES I would like to give credit to these site for the image, movie, songs and text PERSONS I say thanks to these persons for all their help. Holistic Writing Rubric Deb Smith to 4-blocks@lists.techers.net 2/8/99. Retrived July 14, 2006. http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/ Leu, D.J., Jr., Kinzer, C.K., Coiro, J., & Cammack, D.W. (2004). Toward a theory of new literacies emerging from the Internet and other information and communication technologies. In R.B. Ruddell, & N. Unrau (Eds.), Theoretical models and processes of reading (5th ed., pp. 1570-1613). Newark, DE: International Reading Association. http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/leu/ Dr. C Kurjian Miriam Millen Moynia Pryce Katie Gulley – PowerPoint ‘Measuring Penny’ http://www.umass.edu/aesop/content.php?n=0&i=1. http://www.teach-nology.com/ http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/storyscramble/scramble.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2CPiKvlHwQ http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=storyseq http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/games/sequence_video.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWJlpIchkE&feature=PlayList&p=32694929FD25B935&index=0 http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=storyseq http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=baking+cupcakes&www_google_domain=www.google.com&hl=en&emb=0&aq=2&oq=baking+c#

11. Return Home Let’s continue Teacher Page Teachers these are objectives for this lesson, feel free to add your own objectives How you can use this lesson This lesson can be use for these things: In the in-class reading centre A take home Family Literacy activity. It can be used in the in-class Listening Centre Students will learn to use the comprehension skill Sequencing of Events. Students will use the Sequencing Events comprehension skill to complete picture activities and graphic organizers. Students will learn specific words associated to sequencing of events. Students will learn about Sequencing of Event in real life activities. Students will write expository piece using sequencing of events format.