Week 12 - Assignment #2

What I overall learned during the course of reading this exercise, was the importance of storytelling and how far we have come since the days of old when storytelling was being done orally or through print. These days, storytelling has become so advanced, we’ve now become subjected to the age of what people now call digital storytelling. Through this way of storytelling it is practically taken to the next level through the addition of different layers of elements that involve sound, video, as well as photo images that are used as a creative way to get students more into the story that is being told at the precise moment instead having them listen to an instructor tell the story while leaving students to have to use their imagination as a way to visualize the whole entire thing. The whole concept of digital storytelling is designed to be the imagination for you to see for yourself without you having to rely on your brain to paint to the picture for you. Through this way of telling stories the student is practically given a front row seat from a visual perspective which gets the student more interested thus bringing them one step closer to a general understanding of the entire story at hand.

                                                                Lesson Plan

Candidate’s Name: Earl Holder

Grade Level: 3rd Grade

Title of the lesson: Digital Storytelling (nursery rhymes)

Length of the lesson: 30 minutes

Central focus of the lesson (The central focus should align with the CCSS/content standards and support students to develop an essential literacy strategy and requisite skills for comprehending or composing texts in meaningful contexts) Key Questions: -What do you want students to learn? Different nursery rhymes to remember -What are the important understandings and core concepts you want students to develop? I want them to be able to get more into school nursery rhymes through digital storytelling Key questions: What do students know? How to sing nursery rhymes What can they do? Sing along  What do you know about your students’ everyday experiences, cultural backgrounds and practices, and interests? Certain nursery rhymes are well known regardless of what culture they're from

Common Core State Standards (List the number and text of the standard. If only a portion of a standard is being addressed, then only list the relevant part[s].) Common Core Learning Standards for ELA and Literacy) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Support literacy development through language (academic language) Identify one language function (i.e. analyze, argue, categorize, compare/contrast, describe, explain, interpret, predict, question, retell, summarize or another one appropriate for your learning segment) Identify a key learning task from your plans that provide students opportunities to practice using the language function. Describe language demands (written or oral) students need to understand and/or use The students ability to retell what they heard was excellent Their memorization is strong though the sing-along format. A key learning task would be for the students to remember what they heard in the digital storytelling video (through sing-alongs) and sing the song by themselves without help

Learning objectives 1. Making sure student can sing on key 2. Making sure the student remembers the lyrics 3. Making sure student can recant the lyrics without any help

Instructional procedure: Instructional strategies and learning tasks (including what you and the students will be doing) that support diverse student needs. Your design should be based on the following:

Instructional resources and materials used to engage students in learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doyv0fL0YJw

Reflection Did your instruction support learning for the whole class and the students who need great support or challenge? yes What changes would you make to support better student learning of the central focus? Provide more digital storytelling nursery rhymes to get students more into it Why do you think these changes would improve student learning? Support your explanation from evidence of research and/or theory. Kids viewing sing-alongs as a form of entertainment they enjoy doing. What a better way to test their cognitive skills than by the way of a digital storytold sing-along