Language+Arts

**Language Arts Lesson Plan**

[|Newsletter Book Report]
 * Corresponding Sunshine State Standards: (can be used with elementary students even though it says middle school) LA.3.1.7.3: The student will determine explicit ideas and information in grade-level text, including but not limited to main idea, relevant supporting details, strongly implied message and inference, and chronological order of events; LA.3.2.1.6: The student will write a book report or review that identifies the main idea, character(s), setting, sequence of events, and problem/solution; LA.3.3.5.1: The student will prepare writing in a format appropriate to audience and purpose (e.g., manuscript, multimedia); LA.3.6.4.2: The student will use digital tools (e.g., word processing, multimedia authoring, web tools, graphic organizers) to present and publish in a variety of media formats.
 * Adaptations: This lesson already calls for the use of technology (word processor) in creating a newspaper or newsletter with articles to summarize the main ideas/events and story elements of a book students have read. However, adaptations could be made to allow students to have additional options for using technology in the form of a computer program such as: Windows Movie Maker, PowerPoint, or something like []  . These would allow them to create a digital story as another way to engage in the writing process and develop their final product to re-tell and share the book they read.  [|Skratch Track]  is another way for students to track the books they read and write a response to them virtually.