Reading Books





Date: March 12, 1996

Subject Area: Language Art

Title: Literature

Grade Level: 5-6

Type Of Setting: Group and individual activities

Objectives:
1. Students can read a book that is recommended on the Internet.
2. Students can write their appreciation of what they have read.
3. Students can send their opinion about others' written appreciation
through the e-mail.

Materals: internet system on a computer, books on the URL
in the school library, pencil, note, and large screen projector

Time: 5-6 periods

Instructional Procedure:

  1. Students search children's literature, using URL:
    Newberry Award
    -http://www.psi.net/chapterone/children/index.html
    December 1995 Book List (Uhta State Library Division)
    -http://www.state.lib.ut.us/booklist/decbook.htm
    November 1995 Book List
    -http://www.state.lib.ut.us/booklist/novbook.htm
  2. Students choose one book that interests them.
  3. Students go to the school library and read those books that
    they have chosen on the URL.
  4. Students type the appreciation of what they have read to keypal in the
    classroom, using e-mail.
  5. Students reply for other's appreciation on the line.
  6. Students write final composition on what they have read to the teacher
    on the line.

Assessment:

1. Students complete their reading books that they have chosen from URL.
2. Students send their appreciation of the books to their keypal on e-mail.
3. Students reply about their keypals' composition.
4. Students send their final appreciation to the teacher on e-mail.



Follow-Up Activities:

1. Students discuss the best book among books they have read.
2. The student who read the best book presents his/her appreciation on
a larege screen projector in the class.
3. The student answers questions from his/her classsmates.

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