Grade Level: Fifth Grade (5th)

Date: Spring 2010

English Language Arts: Book Review

Grade Level Content Expectations

 R.NT.05.01 analyze how characters and communities reflect life (in positive and
negative ways) in classic, multicultural, and contemporary literature recognized for
quality and literary merit.

 R.NT.05.02 analyze the structure, elements, style, and purpose of narrative genre
including historical fiction, tall tales, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

 R.NT.05.03 analyze how characters’ traits and setting define plot, climax, the role
of dialogue, and how problems are resolved.

 R.NT.05.04 explain how authors use literary devices including exaggeration and
metaphors to develop characters, themes, plot, and functions of heroes, anti-
heroes, and narrators.

Goals/ Objectives
 Knowledge Goal: Each student will be able to comprehend the material at an 80%
and above success rate
 Capacity Goal: Each student will comprehend and demonstrate the material being
presented. Other words, the student will be able to create and edit a book review
on Google Docs.
 Commitment Goal: Each student will remain focused throughout the lesson and do
their best to demonstrate their abilities.

Materials and Supplies Needed:

 Computer per each student
 Projector
 Smart Board

Daily Lesson Plan: Book Review on Google Doc

Procedures and Time Allocated:

Introduction (10 min)

The Teacher will introduce the topic of creating a book review. With this
introduction she will discuss with the class what they think is important in a book
along with different elements that should be discussed. After the class discussion
the teacher will split the class into two groups and assign each group a short book.
Each student will then create a review based on the criteria they came up with.
Events During the Lesson (30 min)
During this time the students will create a book review. The review should be 1-2
paragraphs and include all the criteria mentioned in the class discussion during the
introduction. After writing their review they will use Google Docs to type it and
invite the teacher to edit it.

Follow up (20 min)

To insure that the students were able to comprehend the activity, as well as work on
heir editing skills, the teacher will choose a few students work to have the whole
class edit. The teacher will make this an interactive process by having the students
use a smart board to edit the reviews. This way the whole class is able to participate
and see how to edit the paper or elements that were already good.

Example of Student’s Work

The book that I did a review on is Where the Wild Things Are. I thought this book was a
good book because it was written in a kids point of view and I could understand it. The
main character is Max who is younger than me. He plays in his wolf costume and gets in
trouble so he stays in his room and goes to where the wild things are. There he can play
all the time and do whatever he wants. Later on in the story Max becomes homesick. This
character is important because he is just like a regular kid who imagines being away from
home. This book is written in first person point of view and is a fantasy because the little
boy goes to a fantasy world.

Rational
The reason that I chose this technology for this lesson is I wanted the students to be able
to edit each others work in a simple way. I chose to use the Smart Boards to highlight the
editing process and have the whole class be able to participate. By using these
technologies, I as the teacher have easy access to all of my student’s work as well as
being able to incorporate lessons on editing as well.