Predictions+and+Story+Writing

Grade: First Grade Subject: Reading and Language Arts Benchmark/ Standards: Identify characters. Make predictions. Write the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Requirements: The students will identify and create their own characters using a variety of creation tools. The students will be required to make predictions about a story, using creation tools, to record their predictions. Students will be required to write the beginning, middle, and end of a story in comic book form, using a creation tool. The creation tools the students will be using are Voicethread, Glogster, Bubbl.us, and Read Write and Think.

As a brainstorming activity, the students will make predictions about the story using [|Voicethread].

The students will use [|Glogster] to find pictures of characters and display them on the Glogster page. The students will discuss why they chose the pictures to represent characters.

The students will make predictions about the story __Froggy__ __Goes to__ __School__ by Jonathan London. The students will write their predictions on [|Bubbl].us, in the form of a web. The students will discuss their predictions. The teacher will read the story. The students will identify which predictions posted on Bubbl.us were correct. The students will discuss the beginning, middle and end of the story.

The students will create a Comic Strip using [|Read] Write and Think. The students will choose characters for the story, and a setting. The students will write the beginning, middle, and end of the story. The students will also use the talking bubbles to write what the characters are saying. The students will present their comic strip to the class. With their Sixth Grade helpers, the students will post comments about their classmates' stories on Edmodo.

Publish: Students will publish comments about their classmates' work on [|Edmodo] using the code if303f.

Project [|Rubric]

Examples of the above activities:

[|My Glog]

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Comic Strip

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