PS 347 American Sign Language and English Lower School

PS 347 American Sign Language and English Lower School Kindergarten Library Media Center Skills 2010-11

Unit 2: How do you make a book? Telling stories and making Approx dates implemented: November – January 2010 books (in collaboration with Artists-in-residence) Common Core Standards:  Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.  With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.  Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.  With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. Rationale: Why is it important to learn these things? Now that students are taking books home, and rating them—becoming critics, they need first-hand experience of the bookmaking media and structure. Key Teaching Points: Includes specific grammar and punctuation study. Read Aloud and Literature Discussion / Mentor Texts: Denise Fleming books esp. Lunch and Time to Sleep  Each book has an author and illustrator (if there are pictures) Denise Fleming website  Denise Fleming is BOTH an author and illustrator  What do authors do?  What do illustrators do? (Art studio)  How a book is made  Telling an original story or retelling a story across pages  What kind of book is it? A list....a cause and effect story?  Illustrating a story (Artist-in-residence) Vocabulary to model, imbed in conversation, encourage and notice: Assessment/Final Product: How will you know your students have learned this? Include metalanguage for students to use to talk about their learning and thinking. Dictation of story Illustrated Book made from dictation Book, pages, cover, title, author, illustrator, binding, spine, page layout, end papers, title Narration/ASL of the scanned copy in Voicethread page, narrate, voice, ASL, call numbers in Picture book section How do you make a book? Answer the essential question as pre- and post-asessment

Evaluation: What worked well, what needed to be changed, what resources were Learning Environment: How will this learning be visible in your room? helpful? It was extremely effective while teaching them about an author to show We will display book on Voicethread and in the library as hard copy. them where to find books that author. Denise Fleming is now a household name. The dictating of the story takes a lot of facilitating, so that all kids are involved, the story develops structure, but also willingness to listen to the children. It is a very interesting, collective process.

Revised by Sara January 2011