Creating a Classroom Social Story Book - My Classroom Rule

Related Content Standards/ Objectives

Students will demonstrate improved comprehension

skills by indicating the meaning of at least two objects/ partial objects, tactile symbols, or pictures found in the school environment. (R:07 S3 C1 PO8 Alt 3)
Students will demonstrate improved work habits by

following work site rules ( Alt. WS Std. 5 C2 PO1)

Related Techology Standards/Objectives

Students will demonstrate creativity and innovation by

using digital creativity tools to create original works. (ET:03 S1 C4 PO 1)

Students will demonstrate effective communication

and collaboration with others as a whole or small group using digital tools. and collaboration by using tools. (ET:02 S2 C1 PO1)

Web 2.0 & Instructional Communication Tool

Web 2.0 Storybird (www.storybird.com) will be used

in this lesson unit. Since this is the first time my class does a technology lesson unit, also due to my students intellectual challenge, teacher and students will work together in our classroom smartboard. The class will use Google Docs as communication tool to share and provide the meaning of each classroom rule. Students will be assisted by instructional aides and working in school computer lab.

Instructional Activity
Instruction: Students share and list that the rules they have at home and at school. The teacher leads a discussion which helps the students recognize that rules help people get along with one another, and identify the need for rules in school to create and maintain a comfortable and safe learning environment. The students then brainstorm rules they are familiar in different setting (home, school, grocery store, restaurant) and discuss them. The teacher asks students to brainstorm the classroom rules, and each student write down one in a sticky note. The teacher input all the rules in a spreadsheet and project to SmartBoard. Then students need to vote and mark to choose the top five votes rules. Students see the result from a bar graph in SmartBoard. The teacher will divide class into five groups, and each group will choose one rule and put it in a poster.

Instructional Activity
Enrichment: The class will make a social story book of My Classroom Rule. The students will complete their assignment by providing their own definitions of these five rules throughout shared google document within school provided g-mail system at home or in the library. The teacher post the final document and project to SmartBoard. The class will discuss and choose two to three definitions for each rule. The teacher will project Storybird to SmartBoard, and each group will discuss and choose the image and input the text in this digital book.

Classroom Management
Strategy 1: Group Discussion (Hilton. Millis & Kopera-

Frye) Strategy 2: Brainstorming (Saskatoon Public School) Strategy 3: collaborative Learning (Davis)

Support for Diverse Learners:

Students with communication disability will be using

AAC device to attend discussion in the group. The limitation of AAC device is that students can only use the vocabularies which has been programmed in the device. The modification of this lesson is providing several picture examples for low functional students to make a choice. They will choose the example they feel like match the rule the best. Then, an instructional aide will input the example to Google Docs in order to share with the class.

Resources
Students are going to use Google Docs to create, share,

and store their work collaboratively. Speech Recognition - Students with intellectual challenge will use Speech Recognition which can be installing through windows Ease of Access Center under control panel. Storybird.com- Students will create and share books to view online using original art provided on the site. Students would be engaged and think creatively while building skills in vocabulary, sentence structure, and creative and conceptual writing skills.

References
Hilton, J. M., Millis, B., & Kopera-Frye, K. (n.d.).

Teaching tools & techniques. Retrieved from http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/suppmat/teachingtools. pdf Saskatoon Public School. (n.d.). Instructional strategies online -brainstorming. Retrieved from http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/brainstormin g/index.html Davis, B. G. (n.d.). Tools for teaching - collaborative learning: Group work and study teams. Retrieved from http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html