Topic Area(s)

Language Arts and Technology

Objective(s)

The Students will use technology to publish a short story.

Introductory Statement

The Students will demonstrate their ability to create a short story and use technology to illustrate and produce their final product.

Technology Skills

Microsoft Works - word processing

Kid Pix - illustration

Materials

Book - Never a Worm This Long (Story - How to Eat Fried Worms)

Microsoft Works

Kid Pix

Focus Questions(s)

If you had to eat a worm, how would you eat it?

Teacher Preparation Notes

1. Read to the students "How to Eat Fried Worms".

2. Discuss the different ways the boy ate his worms.

3. Brainstorm with the students the different ways you could eat a worm.

4. Have an example of how you would eat a worm (If I had to eat a worm, I would chop it up and put it on a hot fudge sundae as if they were the nuts.).

What The Student(s) Will Do

1. Create a short story of how they would eat a worm given the story starter, "If I had to eat a worm, I would . . . ."

2. Create Illustrations for their story.

Discussion Questions(s)

Share stories of how each student would eat their worm.

Extensions(s)

Publish the book.

Create Web page

Evaluation(s)

1. Check student's stories for the following: grammar, punctuation, capitalization and spelling.