Carla Benton

LITR 630
Digital Storytelling Lesson Plan
June 28, 2017

Title of Lesson Creating a Digital Story

Grade Level Kindergarten
Time for Lesson 60 minutes plus additional time for recording voice overs. This
lesson may take up to 3 sessions to complete fully.
ISTE Standards 1b. Create original works as a means of personal or group
expression
3b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and
ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
ILA Standards 2.2 Candidates use appropriate and varied instructional
approaches, including those that develop word recognition,
language comprehension, strategic knowledge, and reading
writing connections
4.2 Candidates use a literacy curriculum and engage in
instructional practices that positively impact students
knowledge, beliefs, and engagement with the features of
diversity.
Kentucky Teacher 6.1 Uses available technology to design and plan instruction.
Standards 6.2 Uses available technology to implement instruction that
facilitates student learning.
6.5 Demonstrates ethical and legal use of technology.
Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY WK6 With guidance and support
from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and
publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY WK8 With guidance and support
from adults, recall information from experiences or gather
information from provided sources to answer a question.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.7 With prompting and
support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the
text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or
idea in the text an illustration depicts).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.5 Add drawings or other
visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional
detail.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.6 Speak audibly and express
thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
Objectives 1. Students will create a digital story based on the results of
their shared research on a given animal.
Accommodations Voice to text typing; text to speech for non-readers
Materials Smart Board, Wiki, Chrome Books, iPads, access to computer
lab if possible, Photostory 3 for windows, story map graphic
organizer, storyboard PowerPoint template
Procedure 1. Introduce the lesson: We have learned how to use a search
engine to learn more about animals. On our Wiki page, you
worked with partners to research questions about an animal.
Carla Benton
LITR 630
Digital Storytelling Lesson Plan
June 28, 2017

Today, we are going to take what we found and create a digital

story about our animal. You will do this by yourself using the
information your group found.
2. Bring up Wiki.
3. Show students the completed page on Emperor Penguins. I
am going to show you how to do this before I let you get
started.
4 Show the students the blank story map page under the
document camera. Tell them this is a story map. It is a way of
getting our thoughts organized before we begin to write.
5. I am going to take the information on the wiki and transfer it
to the story map. Do so. When finished, move on to the next
step. I am going to write the letter B next to the squares that I
think I should write about first. (I try to group information that
is similar together.) Put the letter M by those that should go in
the middle and the letter E by those that should be at the end of
the story.
6. Next, look at all the B letters. Decide the order in which
they should go in the story. Number them. Do the same with
the M and E squares.
7. When you have this finished, raise your hand and one of the
adults will come and give you the template for the next step.
8. Now that we have the story map complete, we can work on
the storyboard. This is where it starts to get fun.
9. In the template, you put the picture you want to use in the
top square. In the middle, you write something short about the
picture. (Show penguin example). At the bottom, you write
what you are going to say about the picture. Do this for all of
the squares that are on your story map.
10. When the storyboard is complete, come and see one of us.
We will help you upload your pictures to Photo Story and you
will publish your story!
11. Show finished Emperor Penguin digital story
12. Lesson wrap: Today we began to turn our research about
an animal into a digital photo story. We will keep working on
these until everyone has a finished story. When we are done,
we will watch all of them.
Assessment Each student will complete the story map today. Everyone
should have at least one picture for his or her storyboard by the
end of the day. Completed stories will have a minimum of 3
facts.
Next Step Tomorrow, we will finish our digital stories if they did not
finish today.