Title of Lesson: Scrapbooking with Zoe Sophia
Grade level: 3-4
Time period: 15-20 mins each day, over a two week period
Topic: Students will chronicle a holiday that they have taken and/or a special day in the
form of scrapbook writing journal entries.
Objective: To have students write short and succinct texts in the form of a journal entry
and to collect these pieces into a scrapbook. Students will also implement proofreading
and revision of their initial drafts to ensure grammar, spelling and sentence structure
are correct.
Materials and Resources Needed:
- Pencil
- Computer/laptop
- Eraser
- Screen
- Paper
- Decorative materials
- Scrap/notebook of some sort
- Pencil crayons/markers
Type of Assessment:
○ Diagnostic
○ Formative
○ Summative
Possible Strategies and Tools to Assess Students:
● Student work samples
● Teacher notes
○ Oral statement
○ One-to-one interview
○ Peer-assessment
○ Checklist
● Self-assessment
● Rubric
● Observation
○ Other
Procedure of the Lesson:
Part 1: Before Reading
1. Mini- discussion: Ask the students what comes to mind when they think of the word
“scrapbook”. Give the students a moment to reflect on this question.
2. Ask the students to now raise their hands to share what comes to mind with the
word “scrapbook”. Record their responses on a large sheet of paper and/or on the
blackboard.
3. Show the students what a scrapbook might look like and the various forms it can take.
Part 2: During Reading
1. Play the story Zoe Sophia’s Scrapbook (by Claudia Mauner and Elisa Smalley).
2. Pause periodically throughout the text to notice text features (i.e. how does the
structure of this text differ from other texts students have read? Why? How does the
language used in this text differ from the language used in other texts? Why do you think
this is so?)
3. Ask the students to raise their hands if they have any questions that are running
through their minds. Give them a moment to think about this. Record questions that
students might have.
Part 3: After Reading
1. Re-play the story once more, without pausing.
2. Go back to the ideas about what a scrapbook is (asked at the beginning of the lesson)
and ask students if their ideas are the same or if they have changed. Record new ideas.
3. Tell the students that they will create their own scrapbook. The scrapbook can be
about a holiday they have taken (like Zoe Sophia’s) or it can be about a special day.
4. The scrapbook must have 5-6 entries. Students must therefore document 5-6 days of
their holiday and/or 5-6 times throughout their special day. The entries answer the
following questions:
- what time is it?
- where did it take place?
- who was present?
- what happened?
- what is something special that happened?
4. Allow students to use photographs, drawings, and other artifacts for their scrapbooks.
Consolidation of Learning:
- Allow students to share their scrapbooks with the class.
- Display the scrapbooks around the classroom for the students to browse