Literacy lesson highlighting online story generators.

1. Self-Publishing for
Students
MayaWest
Writing Project
Prof. Arlinda Lopez

2. WHO AM I
• Prof. Arlinda López Rodriguez
• UPR, Aguadilla
• 24 years teaching
• Areas of interest: TESL, technology integration,
teacher preparation, professional development
• Philosophy: humanistic constructivist; critical
pedagogy

3. Objectives
• Highlight theories that support the use of
technology in writing.
• Model the use of technology, online story
generators, for creative writing.
• Practice using online story generators

4. DEPR Grade-level Expectations
Through the use of an online story generating
program the student will: (W 4 – W12)
-Conceptual: Apply organizational patterns and
the elements of narrative forms to create a story.
-Procedural: Write a story using correct
sentence structures and punctuation.
-Attitudinal: Willingly use writing in a creative
manner.

5. THEORIES THAT SUPPORT
• Social Constructionist Theory
• Main Idea: Knowledge constructed by group discourse
(Piaget; Vygostsky; Bandura)
• Technology integration
• actively engaging students
• provides multiple windows for social interactions
• users are active participants, engaged in creating,
maintaining and expanding Web content

6. Lesson Development
Learning Activities:
• After reviewing the story elements, students will work
together with a peer to write a short story using an online
story generator.
• Teacher will discuss the project rubric with students.
• The teacher will hand out graphic organizers so that the
students can organize their ideas for their story.

7. Lesson Development
• The teacher will present the online story generator, My
Story Maker to students.
• Each pair of students will develop their characters, choose
their settings and write a coherent story that includes:
introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and
resolution.
• After completing the story, the students can read their
work from the Author’s Chair.

8. Online Story Generator

9. AUTHOR’S CHAIR

10. Resources
• Scholastics. (2013). Graphic organizers for reading
comprehension. Retrieved on August 13, 2013 from
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-
plan/graphic-organizers-reading-comprehension
• Story writing rubric. Retrieved on August 13, 2013 from
http://engres.ied.edu.hk/lang_arts/tasks/sampleAsseRubr
ics/Story_Writing_Rubric.pdf
• Weighted Rubric for Short Story Using Research 100 pts.
Retrieved on August 13, 2013 from
http://www.d.umn.edu/~moor0145/storyrubric.htm