This is my technology lesson project with the notes information on the slides. Enjoy!

1. Character Voice Lesson
BY REBECCA BIRD SHAW

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Objective: The students will match a phrase
with which character’s VOICE it belongs to.
This will help them to understand how they
can use voice in their writing.
State Core Tie:
 3rd Grade Language Arts:
 Standard 8 Objective 2(b): Use voice to fit the
purpose and audience.

3. I had previously taught a voice writing lesson

to the students and saw that they had a
VERY difficult time understanding how to
change the voice of the text when addressed
to different audiences or to represent
different characters in their story. My mentor
teacher and I decided it would be good to
have the students see many examples of
voice in writing to help them understand.

4. CHARACTER PHRASE READ
I created a lesson where I
used PowerPoint to
display character voice
phrases. The slides had
the phrases as well as
options for the students to
select the best character
voice match for the
phrase. I read the phrase
off the slide as well as the
options.

5. EXAMPLE! WAHOO!!!
“My poor aching

knees hurt every time
This is an example of
I take a step! Good
one of the character
thing I have a cane to
phrases I used. Each of
help me walk or I just
the students were
might fall and break a
required to select which
bone.”
answer they thought
Cowboy
a)
was best and write it
Old man
b)
down.
5 year old
c)
Cook
d)

6. FOUR CORNER FUN!! 
We then played a form of Four
Corners. The four corners of the
room were labeled with a letter
sign. The students would go
stand in the corner that
contained the letter they
believed to be the correct
answer. I would then ask
students standing in whichever
corners were occupied why they
believed that character fit the
voice phrase.

7. ANSWER TIME!!
The students would then
return to their seats and I
would click to the next
slide that displayed the
correct answer. I had
added in sound effects
to the answer slides in
my presentation, which
the students absolutely
loved. It helped to keep
them engaged and
excited to find out which
character matched with
the phrase.

8. REFLECTION: THINGS THAT…..
Went well: Could have been better:
 Students were excited  Students often got
to participate distracted when
standing in the back of
 They were able to
the group in the corner.
select the correct
I needed to set more
answer almost always
specific behavior
and provide a reason
expectations before the
WHY it was correct
lesson began and stick
to them.

9. PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
Students Use of Technology: No
1.
Technology Use is Essential: Yes
2.
Focus on Learning Task: Yes
3.
Added Value: Yes
4.

10. STUDENTS USE OF TECHNOLOGY: NO
In my lesson the students did not use

technology; I only used it technology. However,
my students were still actively participating
through writing down the correct answer and
moving to the corresponding corner. I was not
able to create a lesson where my students could
use technology because the only resource
available with enough materials for EACH of my
students to use was the computer lab. Because
the students are already going to the lab weekly
for computer time and 3+ mornings a week to
practice taking end of level testing in the
computer lab, my teacher thought it was best
not to plan an additional computer lab lesson.

11. TECHNOLOGY USE IS ESSENTIAL: YES
Without the questions on the PowerPoint, I

would have had to either print many many
pages to display the questions large enough for
the students to read (which would have wasted
time as I put up each new phrase), or I could
have read off each of the questions (which
would not have allowed the students to SEE the
text). I did not want to provide worksheets with
the phrases on them because I wanted to make
sure the students worked together as a class on
the phrases. PowerPoint made the activity run
MUCH MUCH better.

12. FOCUS ON LEARNING TASK: YES
This was a voice lesson. I taught nothing

about PowerPoint even though it was the
technology used. I focused on the learning
task.

13. ADDED VALUE: YES
The technology added value. The activity

would have been more difficult and less
engaging without the use of PowerPoint.

14. THE END