The lesson that I chose to move forward with in my fictitious classroom is titled "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative". This lesson plan includes students viewing a photograph and brainstorming a story based off of the photo and the characters within the story. In their story, the students can chose to write from one of the characters point of view, or through a narrator; they also have the choice of creating a story including the events that led up to what is going on in the photo, or the events that will occur afterward.
During this lesson, students could use the tool Storybird. Through Storybird, students are able to create page by page stories based off of pictures, which are narrated through text. The students could choose individual scenes within the photo and tell a story based off of each section. This tool could be used by students second grade and up, requiring more in-depth narratives as grade level rises.
Another online tool that could be used to present the created story is VoiceThread. VoiceThread is similar to Storybird in the sense that you are telling a story based off of pictures. Rather than the viewer reading the story in text, the story is read aloud while the viewer is looking at the pictures. This allows the creator to incorporate what they imagine the characters voices to sound like, and to set the pace for the story.
The following NETS Standards for teachers correspond with this lesson plan:
1.c. Promote student reflection using collaborative
tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual
understanding and thinking, planning, and
creative processes
2. c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles,
working strategies, and abilities using digital tools
and resources"
The following Common Core Standards correspond with this lesson plan:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1d Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.8.5 Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Here are a few other Common Core Standards I think would apply to this project -
ReplyDeleteCCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.4 With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 3 here.)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
I think the tools you chose are great for this lesson and would easily accomplish the objectives.