Grade Level Appropriateness: 3rd Grade Technology Content Standard Addressed: The Book Report Lesson Plan is going to meet the ISTE standard for teachers by designing and developing digital age learning experiences and assessments through a software resource called, The Duck Software Book Reporter. Using this software, it will address the ISTE standard of modeling digital age work and learning by demonstrating fluency in the software and transferring knowledge into that software. The ISTE standard for students it will be addressing is research and information fluency. Other Content Standard Addressed: A standard from Reading that this lesson plan will address is being able to describe feelings of characters in a story and how their actions impact the story. Another Reading standard, the lesson plan will address is writing informative texts to examine a topic and using that writing by language skills that include: spelling correctly and using nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs correctly. Objective: The student will learn how to use a computer generated book report system to create creative and thoroughly researched book reports. They will use this as a guideline to make physical book report poster boards as a visual representation. (They will learn how to input information they have gathered through typing it into the book report program, and how to create a digital book report) Materials needed to facilitate the lesson: Book of choice, notebook, pen, Duck Software Book Reporter, Computer. Suggested group size: 25-35 Procedures: 1. Choose a book to do a book report on. 2. Research information about the author, the summary, and the theme of the book. 3. Record the information in a notebook with a pen. 4. Download the Duck Software Book Reporter from the school computer lab or classroom computers. The site is found here: http://www.ducksoftware.com/bookreporter.html 5. Make a new page by clicking the above left hand corner side button titled Students, and click the option for Enter New Report. 6. A student Sign-In box will pop up; enter in your first and last name. 7. A book report fill in box will show, type in your name, the author, the chapters and in the blank box, type in your summary (label it as summary on the top of your paragraph) and your theme (label it as theme on the top of your sentences) 8. Save the page and print one copy of the book report page to be used as a guideline for the visual portion of the project. Assessment: Read through each students book report. Check if the steps of the procedure have been thoroughly followed. The summary and theme should reflect the childs comprehension of the main idea of the book and the ability to express it in words and sentences that are grammatically correct and spelled correctly.