Day 2: THE REST OF THE STORY

  Objective: Students will organize new information using a Story-Sort Board.

  Time needed: 40-45 minutes

  Materials needed: Computers using website: www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html, and Story-Sort Pieces. These are made from recipe cards, or tag board.

  Activity: Students will work with the partner from the previous day. Groups will receive a bag containing the pre-cut Story- Sort pieces. In the bag will also be several blank cards. Prior to reading the information on the website, students will remove the pieces and place them on the floor face-up. They will attempt to group the cards into meaning groups. (Which ones belong together?) They will read they information together, stopping periodically to rearrange the cards using new incoming knowledge. Following the classification of the cards, students will provide a heading for each card category. As they add new knowledge throughout this unit, they may add new cards to their design. They are organizing their information.

  Assessment: A process assessment will be incorporated into this lesson. The organized cards will be taped or mounted onto tag board and kept at each workstation. Not all organizational patterns will be alike. The students will need to explain or “teach” their semantic organizer to a neighboring group.

          Example of a Story-Sort using this website: