Music+and+Technology

=End of the Marking Period Genre Grade Level = [|Eye Color] || || Adventure || Research || Students created a presentation illustrating the creation of: America The Beautiful. America! || Poetry: Concern for Christmas Concert Conduct, students created a Public Service Announcement, adapting lyrics to the 12 Days of Christmas. || Cause and Effect || Position Paper ||
 * Grade || Type of (digital) writing ||
 * Kindergarten || We find the alphabet on the keyboard. ||
 * First || We find the alphabet and are able to use different keys to create words. We can draw pictures describing what we have seen on the web. ||
 * Second || We are able to log on and do basic searches on the world wide web. We can create basic descriptions using information from our searches. ||
 * Third || We can navigate to sources online to post our thoughts. ||
 * Fourth || We can write basic information on google docs. We can use online research to:
 * site our sources
 * retrieve clip art
 * use mentor sites as sources of writing prompts ||
 * Fifth || We can use google docs to:
 * describe spelling words
 * illustrate/animate spelling words
 * taking online surveys for assessment purposes, in an essay format ||
 * || ===Marking Period 1=== || ===Marking Period 2=== || ===Marking Period 3=== || ===Marking Period 4=== ||
 * Kindergarten || Personal narrative:
 * I can recognize the letters on my keyboard
 * I can recognize my letters on my monitor
 * Learning our letters || Poetry, in their regular classroom, will be reinforced with poetry as lyrics: Learning our letters on the keyboard
 * I can draw pictures about different letters
 * I illustrate letters using different stamps and tools || Informational, in their regulaWe learn through writing that each letter has a different sound. Recognizing those sounds we can navigate to My File on our server. || Research: We find numbers and fuction keys on the keyboard
 * First Grade || Descriptive:
 * Using a drawing software I can draw my understanding of correct usage of computer hardware. || Informative:
 * I can save this file on my server, and then describe the steps to achieve this.
 * File for Burton || Personal Narrative:
 * I can describe my favorite birthday celebration
 * My Birthday File || Research Question:
 * I can research how many pets our class has, and see it graphed.
 * Pets ||
 * Second Grade || Personal narrative:
 * I can describe what I like to do when we come to computer lab.
 * Computers are fun. || Descriptive Paragraphs
 * I can describe my understanding of the Earth.
 * The Earth || Marking Magazine Feature Article
 * I can use the Spell Check tool in practice, so I can do the Magazine Feature Article in my regular classroom.
 * Spell Check || Research Questions
 * I can demonstrate my understanding of a Skate Shop in a spreadsheet.
 * Skate Shop ||
 * Third Grade || Realistic fiction
 * I can create a believable story out of silly words.
 * Fox.doc || Informational report
 * I can write a brief informational report about our town.
 * My Town || Comparative essay
 * I can view a comparison in a spreadsheet and describe it.
 * Lunch Budget || Teacher led research question
 * I can research presidents with my class, and post my information on my presentation.
 * Presidents ||
 * Fourth Grade || Using various tools, students create a movie illustrating the evolution of the Star Spangled Banner. This was used for instructional purposes for younger students. || Fantasy
 * Using BFG ideas include:
 * divide class into groups of 4 or 5 and let them write, and produce a commercial for either Snozzcumbers or Frobscottle. Class will absolutely love this and the parents will enjoy watching their children in action even more.
 * Remind the children of the story and read the "Dreams" chapter to give the children some ideas. Ask them to make a recipe for a dream. They could set it out like a cooking recipe with ingredients and mixing instructions and there should also be a short description of the dream (which could be a "Golden Phizzwizard" or a "Trogglehumper").When all of the recipes are finished, they could be made into a "Dream Recipe Cook Book". Good in Googledocs!
 * for out of school activities: this craft will be enjoyable!
 * Fifth Grade || Historical Non-Fiction

**For the students in my class to be successful in writing_, they need to know: **
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 * Kindergarten
 * I can draw with details.
 * I can tell about my picture.
 * First Grade
 * I can capitalize my first and Last Name.
 * I can write a complete sentence remebering to start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.
 * I can capitalize the first letter in first and last names and the pronoun I.
 * I can use spaces correctly (pressing the space bar only one time between words).
 * Second Grade:
 * I am begninning to understand how to put my thoughts in order.
 * Third Grade:
 * I can organize my writing using story structure including story elements and sequence of events
 * Fourth Grade:
 * I can write a sentence
 * I can write a paragraph
 * Fifth Grade::
 * I can

**Mentor texts that I can return to often to help students with these genres are: **
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 * __//Growing With Technology Level K-//__ Shelly Cashman Bunin
 * __//Growing With Technology Level 1-//__ Shelly Cashman Bunin
 * __//Growing With Technology Level 2-//__ Shelly Cashman Bunin
 * __//Growing With Technology Level 3-//__ Shelly Cashman Bunin
 * __//Growing With Technology Level 4-//__ Shelly Cashman Bunin
 * __//Growing With Technology Level 5-//__ Shelly Cashman Bunin
 * ** Student Interactives from ReadWriteThink
 * Bio Cube (for identifying characteristics of a person for a biography)
 * Compare/Contrast Map
 * Essay Map
 * Graphic Map
 * Multigenre Mapper
 * Persuasion Map
 * Profile Publisher (create a fake social network profile)
 * Timeline
 * Venn Diagram (2 Circles)
 * Venn Diagram (3 Circles)

**Mentor texts that I can return to often to help students with the craft of writing (6 traits) are: **

 * //The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary Over 15,000 Words//-Sue Young
 * //Because Digital Writing Matters//-Danielle DeVoss, Elyse Audaahl, and Troy Hicks
 * //51 Wacky We-search Reports Face The Facts With Fun//-Barry Lane
 * //The 9 Rights of Every Writer: A Guide For Teachers//-Vicki Spandel
 * //Writing Anchors-//Jan Wells and Janine Reid