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Our Classroom: Writing an Owner’s Manual
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| Grades | 3 – 5 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Four 50-minute sessions |
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STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).
Grades 3 – 10 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
This interactive invites students to create original multigenre, multimodal works--one drawing and three written texts--making the tool flexible for multiple writing activities.
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Letter Generator is a useful tool for students to learn the parts of a business or friendly letter and then compose and print letters for both styles of correspondence.
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers.
PRINTOUTS
- Example from a Self-Guided Tour
- Publishing Options for the Classroom Owner's Manual
- Classroom Owner's Manual Self-Assessment
- Peer Review Form
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PREPARATION
- Make appropriate number of copies of the Peer Review Form and the Classroom Owner's Manual Self-Assessment.
- Locate an owner's manual or guide to share with the class as an example. Guides are widely available online, including at the following locations:
- Make an overhead transparency or enlarge the student example of an owner's manual entry.
- Decide which of the publishing options to use with the class. Test the tools that you've chosen (e.g., Comic Creator, Flip Book, Multigenre Mapper, Letter Generator, Stapleless Book, and/or ReadWriteThink Printing Press) on your computers to familiarize yourself with the tools and ensure that you have the Flash plug-in installed. You can download the plug-in from the technical support page.