Connie Crowe
Bogue Sound Elementary
November 5, 1999

Curriculum Areas NC Standard Course of Study:

Language Arts:
R5 (Sequencing/Beginning, Middle, Ending)

Math
  4.01 Gather, organize and display information as a group activity
  4.04 Create concrete, pictorial, and symbolic graphs using prepared grid

Technology:
  1.2 (Discuss ownership of computer created work)
  1.3 (Identify physical components of a computer system)
  2.1 (Identify and discuss fundamental computer terms)
  2.2 (Locate and use letters, numbers, and special keys on a keyboard)
  2.3 (Identify basic word processing terms)
  2.4 (Key words and/or sentences using word processing)
  2.5 (Participate in the creation of a class multimedia sequential story)

Introduction
 Review/discuss with students the sequence of events in Leo The Late Bloomer.
  Beginning - Leo couldn't do anything right.
  Middle - Leo's father was worried because he wasn't growing and he
   watched Leo to see signs of him growing.
  Ending - Leo could read, write, draw and eat neatly, finally.  He had
   made it!

Statement of Objective - Today we are going to look at the beginning, middle, and
 ending of Leo The Late Bloomer.  We have already made a flow map of the
 order of this story.  Today we are going to use the computer to make a slide
 show.

Teacher Input -
  *Discuss/review physical components of computer, fundamental
  computer terms, and basic word processing terms.

  *Discuss ownership of computer created work.

  *Reread Leo The Late Bloomer .
  *Using ClarisWorks for Kids, show/model for students creating a
  slide show story with beginning, middle, and ending of a story.

Guided/Independent Practice -
  Students produce individual sequential/linear story.

Closure -
  *Show some individual student products.
  *Discuss other things this program can be used with.

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