Brief Description: 
The students will word process imaginative stories about rabbits that will be made into individual booklets that the students will take home by Easter vacation.

Approximate time required: 
2 1/2 hours per child each week over a 4 week period before Easter.
 

Standard Course of Study Goals and Objectives:
Creative Writing 
4.01 Select and use new vocabulary and language structures in both speech and writing context (e.g., oral retelling using exclamatory phrases to accent an idea or event).
4.02 Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ____do) in simple texts.
4.03 Use specific words to name and tell action in oral and written language (e.g., using words such as frog and toad when discussing an expository text).
4.04 Extend skills in using oral written language: producing written products.
5.02 Apply phonics to write independently, using temporary and/or conventional spelling.
5.03 Write all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet, using correct letter formation.
5.04 Use complete sentences to write simple texts.
5.05 Use basic capitalization and punctuation:

• first word in a sentence.
• proper names.
• period to end declarative sentence.
• question mark to end interrogative sentence.

Teacher's Lesson Goals/Objectives: 
Each student will word process, save a story on an individual disk, learn how to select font and size of text for their story and retrieve their document. After word processing, they will print, share, and display their story in the classroom.

Materials/Resources Needed:
Computer
Printer
Paper
Word Processing Program
Format  called The Strange Adventure for students to compose stories on
Suggested books: 

• Beatrix Potter's, Tales of Peter Rabbit
• Carolyn Bailey's The Little Rabbit who Wanted Red Wings
• Amye Rosenberg's, Rabbit's Rainy Day
• Thornton W. Burgess', How Peter Cottontail got his Name
• Bonnie Worth's, Peter Cottontail's Surprise

Pre Activities:

1. Before Easter, the class has acquired factual knowledge about rabbits.
2. Students read fun stories about rabbits.

Activities: 3 weeks before Easter

1. Students are given a The Strange Adventure format to compose their story on.
2. Students imagine they are the Easter Bunny delivering Easter eggs. While delivering the eggs, they have a strange adventure.
3. Throughout the week, students are conferenced about their stories.
4. Class discusses ownership of computer created work.
5. Students word process a story.
6. A class schedule is established for writing time (see sample schedule below)

Closure:
A copy of all the stories that have been word processed will be compiled in a booklet for each child to take home and enjoy reading over Easter vacation as a first grade keepsake. 

Assessment: 

1. Each student's writing will be assessed by a writing rubric. 
2. Students will be observed to see if they can locate and use letters, numbers and special keys on a keyboard, as well as, knowledge of physical components of a computer: mouse, monitor, and keyboard.
3. Students work will be checked for ownership (other's story ideas have not  replicated).
4. Students will  be asked to save/save as, print, open, to check for knowledge of basic word processing terms.
5. This lesson has been observed by a ____________________________ (Principal, assistant principal, teacher, other)

Sample Writing Schedule
3 weeks before Easter
2/3 class compose : How The Easter Bunny Gets Easter Eggs
1/3 class word process: The Strange Adventure

2 weeks before Easter
2/3 class compose: Why Easter Eggs are Colored
1/3 class word process: How the Easter Bunny Gets Easter Eggs

1 weeks before Easter
1/3 class word process: Why Easter Eggs are Colored

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