by Shannon Foster
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Level: 3-7 |
Content
Area: Literature |
In
this lesson students will use ebooks to discover
the characteristics of fairy tales. They will use
a word processor to create and edit their own story
and use sketchy as a storyboard to tell their story
to the class.
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Lesson Goals
- The students
will be able to recognize the characteristics of a fairy
tale. (http://www.courses.psu.edu/ger/ger100_fgg1/transparencies/fairytales.html)
- The students
will be able to create a story line using Picomap.
- The students
will be able to rewrite an existing fairy tale to fit present
times using the characteristics of the fairy tale.
- The students
will be able to retell a story.
- The students
will be able to do a telling of their own story using Sketchy
as a storyboard.
Procedures
- The class
will discuss fairy tales. As they discuss the fairy tales
they already know, they will discuss some of the similarities
and differences.
- The class
will beam the fairy tale ebooks around. The students will
be paired up. In the pairs the students will each read two
different stories. After both students have read both stories
they will compare and contrast the stories.
- After
the compare and contrast the pair will choose one of the
two stories to revise. They will use PiCoMap to make a story
line of the tale they have chosen.
- They will
then work together to brainstorm ideas to update the story.
They can story board these ideas into sketchy.
- The students
will use a word processing program such as WordSmith or Word-To-Go to
write their story.
- Once the
story is written, the student pairs will be teamed up and
do peer editing of one other pair’s story. To do this
the pairs will exchange stories by beaming. They will read
each other’s story and be allowed time to ask questions
for clarification. Then offer any suggestions they may have.
- At the
conclusion of the peer editing session the students will
once again work with their partner and decide which suggestions
they would like to accept, and do their final editing.
- At the
conclusion of the final editing the students will rehearse
their stories using their sketchy storyboard.
- There
will be a two-part conclusion for this lesson. In part one,
the students will do a telling of their story for the class.
In part two the teacher will compile all of the stories into
an eBook for the students to enjoy.
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