1st, 2nd, 3rd Grades/Media Skills:

Unit/Theme:

• Arthur for Valentine’s Day, eBook and Video

Standards

American Association of School Librarians, Standards for the 21st Century Learner:

• 1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.

Content Objectives

Dearborn Public Schools Department of Media Services, K-12 Information Literacy Media Curriculum, 2004:

• Content Standard #3: A student who has been educated in library media information skills uses information accurately and creatively.

Language Objectives

Michigan Department of Education, K-8 GLCE English Language Arts:

• 1st Grade: 1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• 2nd Grade: 1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate an understanding of key details in a text.
• 3rd Grade: 3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Key Vocabulary:

• eBook
• Promethean Board
• DVD

Supplementary Materials:

• Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthurs Thanksgiving. Little, Brown, 1980.
• Arthur and the square dance,  https://www.wco.tv/arthur-season-2-episode-12-arthurs-faraway-friend-arthur-and-the-square-dance.) Season 2, airdate January 28, 1998.  (Currently unavailable for purchase but you can find it online.)

Preparation:

• Adaptation of content
• Links to background
• Links to past learning
• Strategies incorporated

Scaffolding:

• Modeling
• Guided practice
• Comprehensible input

Group Options:

• Whole class

Integration of Processes:

• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening

Application:

• Meaningful
• Linked to objectives
• Promotes engagement

Assessment:

• Group
• Oral
• Lesson Sequence

Transition:

• Review vocabulary.

Anticipatory Set:

• Review procedures for reading an eBook on the Promethean Board. Review descriptive words that the author uses.

Instruction/Check for Understanding:

• Read “Arthur’s Valentine” and point out clues in the text for how to read the book aloud.
• Show “Arthur and the Square Dance.”
• After reading the book and seeing the video, discuss how the characters are similar and different from one medium to the other.

Preview for Next Week:

• Tell students we will be in the computer lab next week and will start to work on using the library database..