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E-Mail Interviews

Designed by: Virginia P. Riddle, AC Moore

1) Core Curriculum Objective: Use brainstorming, questions, interviews, reading, discussion, and role playing to generate and explore ideas.  (K-WP-2)

Grade Level:  Kindergarten     Subject:  Reading

2) Overview:  Students will assist teacher is designing an interview to be used with people that they would like to know more about. Students will then be introduced to e-mail. The students will dictate a short letter to the person (persons) that they would like to respond to their interview. The teacher will e-mail the letter and the interview as an attached file.

The teacher will assist students in retrieving e-mail when the interviews are returned. 

 

3) Purpose/Essential Question:

How can we find out information about someone?

 

4) Time frame:  two thirty minute class reading periods

5) Resources:

Chart paper

Computer

E-mail addresses

 

6) Assessment:   

Teacher will ask student how he/she could find out some information about a person.

 

Teacher will use the rubric to assess student achievement.

 

 / Student knows that an  interview is one way of finding out information and can  give some sample questions that he/she would use in the interview of a person that they would like to know more about.
. Student knows that an interview is one way of finding out information.
- Student does not know that an interview is one way of finding out information.

7) Instructional Activity #1:

Teacher will discuss ways that we could find out information about people.

Teacher will introduce the interview process and guide students in formulating questions that they would ask if trying to find out additional information about a person. Teacher will write the questions that the students formulate on a chart.

The teacher will then compile the questions into an interview for the students to use with email.

 

Instructional Activity #2

Teacher will assist children in e-mailing persons that they have chosen to interview, with the interview that they have developed as an attachment.

 

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