The lesson plan I found is called
Book Buddy Biographies. This lesson plan can work with K-2 students.
The objective of the lesson plan is to help students to be able to participate
in a cooperative learning brainstorming session, developing a personalized list
of questions, engage in an interview session, using a planning sheet, write,
illustrate and edit a biography for their book buddies, present personalized
biography to their book buddies and strengthen computer/writing skills by
communicating with their buddies using e-mail.
The Book Buddies lesson plans pairs up a child
from a primary class and a child from an intermediate class. I love the idea of
students sharing books together.
During the three sessions of lessons students will
create a personalized biography for their reading buddy as a great way to break
the ice when Book Buddies meet for the first time. Students brainstorm
questions they can ask to get to know their Book Buddy. They then use the
questions to interview their Book Buddies. They write a biography of their new
friend and publish it using an online tool. Book Buddies can then share their
biographies with each other at their next session. The idea of integrating technology
with the email component is also a great idea I will defiantly be using this
lesson in my classroom.
The educational strategies involved in this
lesson are cooperative learning and problem based learning of collaboration.
Both of which I find very interesting,
I
like how with these strategies in an inclusion classroom you can match up
students by level and have them be able to connect.
I used the website read write think for this lesson they have an awesome
collection of lessons for the reading and writing.
