2/6/99

Grade 6, ESL

Copying and Pasting with Poetry

Academic

• Use structural and analysis skills to decode words unfamiliar in print.
• Use reading strategies to comprehend written selections.

• Create documents using word-processing skills and writing process steps.
• Use local networks and communication systems to access information.

Students need to know:

how to turn on the computer.

how to pull up the Internet from the desktop icon.

How to use the Bookmarks file.

• HP with Internet Access and Microsoft Word
• Clipart CD rom (this has more choices than clipart in Microsoft). The teacher can also pull clipart off the Internet and make that available in a file.
• Odgen Nash site: http://www.ncal.verio.com/~veeceet/kids/nash.html
• Hard copy of Word Document (printer and paper).

Students will work in partners. They will turn on the computer and access the Internet. They will go into bookmarks and find the Nash site. They will copy an Odgen Nash poem into a word document and find a picture from Clipart to compliment the poem. They will then type in their own poem on the same document, modeled after Nash’s poem. They will find another picture in clip art to compliment their poem.

My entire curriculum accommodates special needs, since I teach ESL, and one third of my students are also learning disabled. I will model the process of finding the site, copying and pasting, inserting pictures, and typing my own poem for the students. I will be close at hand for them to ask questions and get help when they try this on their own.

I will observe students working through the site, while they are on the Internet. I will also read the completed documents they create.