The book I created was written by one of my fifth grade
students. She has been out of gym
all year because of an injury. I
asked her to write a story about sportsmanship. She came up with the silly story about a purple monkey. I would have loved for her to also
illustrate it but we ran out of time.
My cooperating ELA teacher, Sam, gave me some pointers for creating this book. She said to give Therese a topic and
include length requirements.
She also said to just let her write and be creative.
Sam and I were discussing ways to include this in her ELA
classes and she is very excited to give it a try. She is going to have students create biographies about
themselves. She wants the students
to find a picture to represent each year of their life and create a timeline
about their lives.
This was a great project and I have been inspired to use
this book builder with my students. I am thinking about having the students on
medicals, who aren’t able to participate in gym but are still being graded,
create their own books. I will
have them choose between topics likes sportsmanship, teamwork, cooperation, and
honesty.
That is great that you were able to actually do this assignment with a student! I like the idea of using UDL Book Builder to create biographies. I think the students would enjoy that. I also feel that they would like having their books published.
ReplyDeleteI love the story! It is really cute that the student came up with a good story like that and used the monkey as the main character to express her feelings. Great choices on these cute little monkey pictures! I also love the idea of putting timeline together to tell the "story of my life." Great work! :D
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