Language+Arts+writing+goals

Special Education Language Arts Kyle Colbert Edu 514

You will be working on writing a 4-6 sentence story about what you enjoy about school. Start by brainstorming about a topic you enjoy in bubbles. When you have come up with a topic to write about in bubbles you will then add 4-6 supporting bubbles to your topic in which you will support why you like the topic. In its completion your bubbles should look very similar to a writing graphic organizer. Here is what mine looked like. Bubbles Demo.

When you have finished your graphic organizer for your story you will then create a comic about your story. You will be using Comic link to create your comic. Each sentence in your story should be a slide in your comic, you should be as accurate to your story as possible. This is what my comic looks like. My comic strip

Once you have finished your comic you will then talk about your comic. You will pull up the program screencastle so that you can look at your comic and record yourself reading the comic on the computer. You should read the comic word for word, at the end of the comic you may continue talking about why you chose your characters and what your thought process was. This is my example of reading my comic. screencastle example

Once you have finished your screen recording of your comic, I want you to watch it over and make sure you like it. If you need you may try this activity as many times as you would like to obtain the fluency in your reading. Remember you will be showing this to your classmates when you are finished. Once your recording is completed I would like you to reflect upon what you think of the technology you have just used. Think of words to describe how you feel when you do an activity such as this. Next I will have you pull up a new website called wordle. In this site you will place all of the words you have come up with in large text box. When you have ten words or more you may hit go. This will create an image out of the words you have submitted. This is what my wordle looked like.Wordle Example

At the completion of each project you will be posting the projects to my My Google Drive account so that I can see you have completed them. Make sure that you use the rubric to ensure that you receive all of the points from each project. Most importantly have fun!