2. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Fabulous Fables Happy Valley Elementary, Anderson California

3. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables My name is Cookie Gifford and I am a Resource Teacher for the 7th and 8th grade at Happy Valley Elementary. My web site is http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~cgifford/http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~cgifford/ My e-mail is cgifford@shastalink.k12.ca.uscgifford@shastalink.k12.ca.us This is a seventh/eighth grade Language Arts lesson focusing on standard 3.1 of Literary Response and Analysis, standard 1.6 of Research and Technology, and standard 2.1 of Writing Applications. For the lesson students will read and analyze fables to determine their common elements and then write an original fable, based on those elements, and present it in a slide show.

4. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Lesson Description and Timeline Students will examine the genre fables and write an original fable based on the elements of a fable they discover. They will present their fable using presentation software. Read and analyze fables-3 periods (37 minutes each). Outline fable using a graphic organizer and write it-2 to 3 periods. Create slides illustrating fable-3 to 4 periods. Assemble final presentation 1 period.

5. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Students will: Read and analyze 5 fables for common elements Write an original fable, including common elements. Create a Power Point or Kid Pix slide show of fable. Narrate their fable. Objectives

6. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Activities Students were given a pretest

7. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables On the pretest, the children were unable to list the title of any fable. Titles they listed ranged from fairy tales to Dr. Seuss to horror films, if they even attempted an answer.

8. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Activities Students were given a pretest Students then read a fable and compared it with a fable read by a partner. They drew a Venn Diagram comparing the two.

9. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables

10. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Activities Students were given a pretest Students then read a fable and compared it with a fable read by a partner. They drew a Venn Diagram comparing the two. Next each student read several fables and charted the elements on a table.

11. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Activities

12. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Activities Students were given a pretest Students then read a fable and compared it with a fable read by a partner. They drew a Venn Diagram comparing the two. Next each student read several fables and charted the elements on a table. Students then used a graphic organizer to outline their original fables.

13. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables

14. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Activities After they had their graphic organizer approved, students then began creating slides, using KidPix to tell their stories. Their slides were assembled into a slide show, which most students narrated.

15. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables

16. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Internet and Technology Integration Lesson plan was posted on the Internet. Links were made to fables already posted on the Internet. Students used Write Out Loud software to copy the fables that they could not read themselves. The fable was read to them by “Wade”. Students used Kid Pix software to produce their original fables.

17. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Successes Students liked the idea that they didn’t have to read anything “long”, although many read more fables than required because they liked them. Use of Write Out Loud for those students who were unable to read fables from the Internet. Originality and creativity expressed by the children through their fables. Met several language arts standards.

18. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Shortcomings Some children had difficulty sticking to Miss Bessie’s rules for content. (no mayhem) It was difficult for some students to get the text to show up against their picture background. It would look good on the computer but would not show up when projected. Some students refused to read their final product into the microphone to accompany their product.

19. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Student Performance

20. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Student Data Student scores improved significantly between the pretest and the posttest. The project scores were also good. The student who earned the low score refused to follow guidelines.

21. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Implementation and Revisions We were able to keep to the time table except for recording the narrations. All the students were actively involved, even those who pride themselves on aloofness. Next time I would include a story frame for the students who have difficulty organizing their thoughts in a logical manner.

22. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables Summary This assignment engaged even the most reluctant students. Everyone was on task most of the time, which says a lot for junior high special education students. The fast pace of the lesson and the variety of input for learning contributed to that success.

23. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables I learned the following: Graphing with excel Web page creation in Netscape Composer Linking pages and projects Power Point Excel Downloading and uploading techniques Outcomes

24. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology FINAL PRESENTATION Cookie Gifford Happy Valley Elementary Fabulous Fables