Narrator AR

Narrator AR Lesson Plan

Group Name: Anastasiia, Jess

Short description

This Narrator AR lesson was created for early education purposes to help children work on their writing skills. The activity is supposed to be conducted in class, everyone will need a phone with an installed Narrator AR app on it.

Contextualization

Target Age: pre-schoolers
Target Language Level (based on CEFR):

Pre-A1 (Can understand short, very simple questions and statements provided that they are delivered slowly and clearly and accompanied by visuals or manual gestures to support understanding and repeated if necessary. Can recognise everyday, familiar words, provided they are delivered clearly and slowly in a clearly defined, familiar, everyday context. Can recognise numbers, prices, dates and days of the week, provided they are delivered slowly and clearly in a defined, familiar, everyday context.)

Location (indoors, outdoors, gym, classroom, etc.): classroom

Lesson Aims

Reception and Written Production
The primary aim of the present lesson is to ensure recognition of the alphabet letters “P’’, ‘l’, ‘A’, ‘N’, to create simple handwriting movements, to teach kids to form lower and upper case letters, to combine letters into CVC words and use correct letter spacing based on the AR activity offered in Narrator AR App

Learning objectives (SWBATs)

Background knowledge needed for this lesson is related to knowing how to use a phone camera on the phone.
Students will be able to..

Use an AR technology effectively
Learn to use the Narrator AR app Recognize 4 more letters of the alphabet Practice handwriting movements Combine Letters into words.

Materials

Smartphones or Tablets
Narrator App
Internet Access
A handout with an active QR code

Brief description of each phase of task cycle

Pre Task (5 minutes)
- Download and Install the Narrator AR App

Main Task (30 minutes)

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  -  Introductory conversation:
  
  The teacher starts talking about stories. They ask some CCQs like Who reads a story before bed? What’s your favourite story? Then, the teacher shows a small story for the class to discuss. This contextualization helps to introduce the activity. The teacher says: Today you are going to create your own story. You will trace some words and then draw your own ending.
  

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  -  Handwriting:
  
  The teacher gives each child their own activity AR sheet and asks them to choose a coloured pencil. Then, they ask them to write their name on the cover. Finally, each child traces the word on each page. In the end, the teacher talks to class about their story ending and suggests they draw it.
  
  Post Task (10 minutes)
  

-  Animating in Augmented Reality using the App:

The teacher asks the class to open the app and instructs them to select a character, hold tablet over the page so that the QR code is visible on screen, an orange button will appear with “Have you finished writing?”, click on the orange button, watch an animated, augmented reality demonstration of how the letters of each CVC is formed

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  -  Discussion on what they learned from the goosechase activity
  

Examples of materials and app in use (attached image)