Digital Text Lesson Plan:

Lesson : Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text

Grade: 4th

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of how reading text on the internet differs from reading a traditionally printed text book.

Materials:   ( The Boy Who Wasn’t There By: Hans Wilhelm)

Venn-diagram worksheet

Two different colored pens

iPad

Introduction: Convey a purpose for the lesson by explaining to students that they will be comparing and contrasting the way they gather information in textbooks, and the way they gather information from the internet. ( Include mini lesson on compare and contrast.)

Procedure: 

• Teacher will introduce digital text on the book The Boy Who Wasn’t There Teacher will also introduce the reading text version of that book and other reading texts
• Explain to students that they will now examine how they read on the internet. Explain that it is an important skill, and there are some similarities and differences to how they read internet text and how they read a printed text.
• Teacher will have students grab their iPad.
• Teacher will direct students on which website to go on to find the digital text.
• Teacher will guide students who need help, and teacher will have students begin to read.
• After 10 minutes. Teacher will ask questions. “Would you be able to list the textual aids?”
• Once students complete reading the text.
• We will have a whole class discussion on what they think about digital texts.
• Repeat lesson with reading text
• Follow all steps and come back for a whole group discussion about how students feel about the reading text.
• Pass out compare and contrast worksheet have students work in groups of 4 and have them share their ideas.
• Come back as a whole class and share ideas with teacher. Teacher will have her own compare and contrast visual on the board and teacher will write down answers that the students provide.
• AT the end of the lesson, have students explore more digital texts on their iPad that interest them. Have them write a list down to hand in.

Closure: Have each student tell teacher one thing that they like or dislike about reading texts and digital texts.

Have students write down what they learned from this lesson to hand in as their exit slip.

Assessment: (Next day) 

Have students compare and contrast on their own about a digital text provided on their Ipad and a reading text. Have students hand that in for the assessment.