by Melissa Turner

Grade Level: 3-5	Content Areas: Language Arts
Duration: 3-4 Days

• Students will identify 4 nouns and write 3-4 characteristics or attributes that describe that noun.
  Students will create writing using the writing process and the 6-traits of writing that will be published into a class eBook.

Other Materials

• The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
• Document Camera

Procedures

1. Review nouns using Nouns Power Point slide show.
   Students will brainstorm two nouns for each category (person, place, thing, idea) and type them into Memos.
2. Students will be paired up and beam each other their list of nouns to review. Pairs will share their best noun from each category.
3. Read The Important Book and ask students to identify the nouns they hear in the story.
4. Using a document camera, show example of outline in Inspiration with 4 nouns as main ideas and describing characteristics as details.
5. Demonstrate how to enter information into the outline form in Inspiration.
6. The students will pick 4 nouns not used in the story or the example and create their own outline using Inspiration. Students should have at least 3 describing characteristics for each main idea.
7. Teacher will model first how to write paragraphs from outline. When writing, follow the format: “The important thing about _______ is that _______. It is also _______, _______, and _______. But the important thing about _______ is that _______.”
8. Students will use their outlines to write their first copy of their “important” paragraphs.
9. When the students are done writing their first copy, they should self and peer edit.
10. When the students have self and peer edited, the teacher will edit the first copy for mistakes.
11. Students will type their final paragraphs into the Handheld using Word-To-Go.
12. When done typing, students will beam their “important” document to the teacher’s Handheld.
13. Teacher will perform Hot Sync once all “important” documents have been beamed. (Having all of the documents on one Handheld means you only need to Hot Sync once and all of the documents are in Docs-To-Go.)
14. Begin compiling them into eBook Studio by copying from Docs-To-Go and pasting into eBook Studio. You will need to edit again after copying and pasting. With the Demo version of eBook Studio, it won’t allow you to save your file and return to it later.
15. Format eBook however you so desire and finish by making book and installing it to the Handheld.
16. Once eBook is created, beam it to the students and let the reading begin! Click here to download an example eBook for eReader.