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Laura
Ingalls Wilder Author Study
Fifth Grade English Language
Arts
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| Author:
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Barbara
Thorson, Statesville, NC |
| Goals: |
Competency
Goal 1: The learner will use strategies and processes that enhance
control of communication skills development. Reading-Writing-Speaking-Listening-Viewing
Competency
Goal 2: The learner will use language for the acquisition, interpretation,
and application of information. Reading-Writing-Speaking-Listening-Viewing
Competency
Goal 3: The learner will use language for critical analysis and
evaluation.
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| The
Writing Process: |
Writing
should be taught as a natural and integral part of the curriculum. Instruction
should encourage whole pieces of writing for real purposes and real audiences
(and should include all stages of the writing process). The stages of the
writing process include pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. |
Social
Studies
Competency
Goals
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5.2: Describe how
the people of the United States, Canada, and Latin America use and modify
their physical environment.
6: The learner will
evaluate the significance of the movement of people, goods, and ideas
from place to place.
12: The learner
will trace developments in the history of the United States, Canada,
and Latin America and assess their impact on the lives of people today.
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| Computer
Competency
Goals
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2.1: Use technology
tools to collect, analyze, and display data.
2.3: Use keyboarding
skills to improve speed and accuracy.
2.4: Use a word
processing application to create and format a document.
3.3: Select search
strategies to obtain information.
3.6: Participate
in curriculum-based telecommunications projects as a class activity.
3.7 Evaluate information
found via telecommunications for appropriateness, content, and usefulness.
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| Internet
Resource: |
Laura
Ingalls Wilder Web Page
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/frames.html
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| English
Language Arts
Activity 1:
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At
Web Home Page http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/frames.html
click on Writing
a School Report. Writing a Paper about Laura Ingalls Wilder offers Steps
from What I need to Know? Gathering Your Information, Writing the Paper,
and Documenting resources used. This assignment could be a descriptive paper
about the life of Wilder, the Frontier Period, etc. |
| Activity
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At
the same Web Page click "Frontier
Girl Newsletter." At that page you can subscribe to Laura Ingalls
Wilder-Frontier Newsletter. At the first of each month your class will receive
an email newsletter. |
| Activity
3: |
At
the same Web Page click on Frontier
Girl Postcards. At this link you can create a Frontier Girl Postcard
and Pick up a card sent to you. Click on Create a postcard and follow prompts
to make appropriate selections including digital pictures and music. |
| Activity
4: |
At
the same Web Page click on Laura’s
Family tree. "Laura’s books" provides your children’s
reviews of the Little House books. The email link will allow students to
post their own reviews. These could be descriptive writings. |
Social
Studies
& Map Skills
Activity
5:
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Click
on "Photo
album" to view pictures of the family and houses where they lived.
On a map, locate towns where the family lived. |
| Music
- Activity 6:
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Click
on "Pa’s
Songs." Using Crescendo, you can enjoy listening and singing along
with familiar tunes. Along with a brief description of when Pa played the
song, the title of the Little House book series where it was played is listed.
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Social
Studies
Frontier Life
Activity
7:
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Click
on The Log Cabin in the Big Woods icon. At this site, you can click on objects
in the log cabin to link to sites to see what life was like during that
time period. This site also includes music played during the period. Background
articles will link you to articles such as the 1874 grasshopper plaques
or the 1880 winter blizzards. Print the easy word search for students to
work on as they listen to the music, Old Dan Tucker. Ask the music teacher
to teach students the words to the songs found at this site. |
Telecommunication
Activity
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To
acquaint students with Listservs, the class can subscribe to the Laura
Ingalls Wilder listserv. The unmoderated listserv is hosted by Texas
Christian University and provides a forum for discussion of topics related
to Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books. Classes may send messages
to the list and messages will be automatically forwarded to members of the
listserv. |
| Assessment |
At
The Log Cabin in the Big Woods site, there are two quizzes the class can
take as a whole group or individually. |
| Additional
information for teachers |
Click
on Index, Teacher Links to find a wealth of resources including a six-week
Frontier Thematic Unit. Also see Laura Ingalls Wilder Home page at: http://www.pinc.com/~jenslegg/ |
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