Delivering Instruction/ Model and Lead: Procedures

• The teacher will review the correct usage of capitalization in sentences.
• The teacher will guide the students in re-opening the Imagination Express: Castles program and opening their saved castle and character shows.
• The teacher will introduce the Cloak of Invisibility activity by quickly reviewing that section of the Harry Potter book with the students. The students are instructed to brainstorm and write 7-8 sentences about what they would do with an invisibility cloak if they owned one like Harry’s. (For the previous night’s homework, the students were instructed to start to think about these sentences. They could even write things down and bring it to class.)
• The teacher will demonstrate & practice with the students how to insert text into their saved program by helping them with a title page for their sentences.

Guided Practice/ Lead and Test:

• The teacher will direct the students to other pages in their saved programs and help them to insert one of their 7-8 sentences per page. The students may have additional time here to complete their sentences, if needed. The students may refer to their sentences that are written down for reference at any time.
• The teacher will assist the students with the activity and also go around to guide them to the correct capitalization procedures for their sentences. The teacher will instruct the students to refer to their capitalization guidelines if they need to.

Independent Practice:

• The teacher will have the students work independently (or in groups, depending upon the number of computers) inserting the remainder of their sentences.
• The teacher will help the students with sentence insertion but will allow the students to capitalize on their own.
• The teacher will monitor that the students save their work.
• After completing the sentence insertion, the students will print out their finished product.

Formative Evaluation: The teacher will assess the completed product. Criteria: The teacher will check the document for at least an 85% accuracy rate on sentence capitalization (e.g., beginning of sentences, titles, proper nouns). If the student does not achieve this accuracy rate, the teacher will determine if it was the activity that gave the student trouble or if it was the capitalization that gave the student trouble and will re-teach or review accordingly to achieve a higher accuracy. The students will not be graded on accuracy of the program’s background itself nor on sentence length or content.

Extension Activity: Have the students create another background for Hogwarts School of Wizardry (or have them use the same saved program that they constructed initially if this activity was too grueling). This time, when inserting text, have the students write a letter to a friend describing the invisibility cloak using descriptive details. They must also capitalize correctly when writing to a friend.

Accommodations: The students will be given written as well as oral directions for the activity. Imagination Express: Castles includes a feature that reads text aloud for students who have trouble reading. Students who need visual aids will have their computers adjusted to create a larger font. The teacher will provide several pre-made castle programs for those students who have a hard time constructing the background and character features.

The boy ran down the street.