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Overview
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K, 2, 3
Focus: English/Language Arts Secondary: Technology
Language Arts
Author Studies, Retelling Stories
6 months |
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Summary With a 2nd or 3rd grade buddy, each Kindergarten student will choose a favorite story and determine the (1) important characters and (2) setting. Then each student will (3) retell the story in his/her own words. The partners will draw pictures for and write about each of the 3 sections of the project. To publish the project, each partner group will create a slideshow using Kid Pix Deluxe 3 and record sound to the slides. Upon completion of the projects, we will host an author night for the students to present their projects.
Rationale This project covers many standards of the Kindergarten and 2nd/3rd grades (buddies of Kindergartners). In Kindergarten, we use an author of the month theme to introduce students to a wide variety of literature genres and to develop reading comprehension strategies. In the fall, we study children’s authors Kevin Henkes, Leo Lionni and Jan Brett. In addition, we read a variety of stories from different authors that become our Kindergarten favorites. We want to take this opportunity to work with our buddies to “retell” our favorite story, and concentrate on several elements that our 2nd and 3rd grade buddies are working on in their classrooms (determining characters, setting, problem, descriptive writing, etc.) Before we planned this project we used Kid Pix software to illustrate collaborative class books and create class slideshows. We wanted to enhance our study of literature by using technology to electronically publish our stories (for visual and audio purposes), creating “digital storybooks.”
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