If you answered yes to these questions, then this 39page value pack is ideal for you and your students. The student wrote about the main character on the tomato slice. Creative teaching focuses both on the methods a teacher uses to deliver learning and the overall effect those methods have on students and the outcomes produced. This activity is also great if you have book clubs or literature circles as students can provide their peers with this guide. This book report project is a lowtech version of a television made. These websites will help you create new and captivating lesson plans for your curriculum using powerpoint, creative writing methods, and onscreen flashcards. Technology, after all, is necessary in helping classrooms stay up to date, getting students with different learning styles to better adapt, and creating an environment that prepares young adults for todays workforce. Using technology must start with knowledge of what types of technology are available and how these might connect to the curriculum. Since my book reports are large and colorful, and i provide a free display banner for you to use on your bulletin board, it is easy to make a brilliant bulletin board display of your students work. Here are some simple tech tools students can use to create awesome projects. How to enhance book reports using technology huffpost. Three types of effective book reports are plot summaries, character analyses, and theme analyses. An understanding of the tools involved, how they work and why is developed.
This is a list of 50 creative and unique book report ideas. This library can be given to your students ahead of the lesson, making the lesson more effective. Technology trends in english language learning and teaching. See more ideas about book projects, teaching reading and 4th grade reading. Digital book reports are herewhether you love technology or you are adjusting to distance learning, this digital book report is fun and easy to use. With the varied levels of todays students jane has given us a book with activities to enable all students to achieve success. College hacks educational technology educational websites. Our course content is meaningful and relevant for you to integrate into your daily lesson planning and instruction for increased student success and best practice in every area of study. Award for innovative uses of technology that change teaching and learning.
Regardless of your brand, product, or service, your annual report is always an opportunity to engage and connect with people, whether its stakeholders, employees, or customers. Nov 19, 2019 teaching novels in the middle school classroom. Technology trends in english language learning and teaching in todays modern world, technology has an everchanging effect on many things and this includes english language learning and teaching. Write an acrostic poem about the book using the letters in the title of the book or the name of a character or author.
Turn them into creative projects complete with artwork, technology applications, acting or writing with a creative twist. Such ideas as making a talk show with a host and guest from your book and writing out questions important to your book to discuss, assembling a magic box and placing imp. Teaching and learning technology integration and innovation. Top 10 educational technology resources teachervision. Seesaws creative canvas lets students capture their learning visually and share it with the class. Probably the strongest sign that technology enhances creativity is that, as richard florida argues in the rise of the creative class, creativity is becoming an intrinsic part of working life. She is passionate about critical and creative thinking and loves to bring out the very best in students and teachers. Top 10 educational technology resources engage students in your classroom with our top 10 favorite interactive educational technology resources.
An understanding of the problem and the theories behind it and the solution are required. The possibilities here are endless, useful for student clubs or sports teams, classroom or gradelevel newsletters, or magazines put out by groups of students who share a common interest, like gaming systems, soccer, or books. The creative curriculum solutions teaching strategies. Technology has gained a more prominent place in classrooms in recent times and is of particular use to blended teachers. Using a 3d model can help you show the importance of symbolism in your book by bringing to life the important symbols used in a story. Instead of a book report, my students wrote a video. This project would be perfect for a book tasting in your classroom. Creative use of technology in education creativity games. This is by no means an exhaustive list of alternatives to book reports, but i hope its spurred some thinking about how to get students to respond to books they read.
The most dreaded word in school reading for students. Below, we present some alternatives to that classic classroom assignment, the book report. These will work for almost any book and are especially good when students are reading independent book selections. You and your fellow classmates have to figure out which person is which character. Writing a book report helps you practice giving your opinion about different aspects of a book, such as. Brainpop educators is proudly powered by wordpress and piklist. Technology in the classroom these articles, blog posts, and videos feature ideas from veteran ell educators who have experience using technology with students of varying backgrounds and proficiency levels. Using technology to create is by far the best use of technology in education. The book not only provides instructions and rubrics for the activities but schedules, suggestions for group interaction, classroom management tips, and very importantly, authentic pictures of the finished products. On the back of the book cover, explain why you are giving the award to the book. Students draw scenes from a selected part of the bookperhaps a scene that represents the beginning, middle and end if youre working on understanding chronology. Even book reports based primarily on writing dont have to follow the traditional format. Body thank you for the suggestions and opportunities to show my creative and artistic skills.
Draw a classroom mural depicting a major scenes from the book. Teaching students creative and critical thinking minds. Mini book reports mini book reports hold big ideas. There are 6 creative book reports in this pack and each report consists of different tasks that require different types of creative writing and design. Time for a test students create a quiz to check their own book learning. Fortunately, there are a plethora of alternative methods to accomplish the same goal. Jan 05, 2016 by jessica sanders using comic books in the classroom may seem unconventional to some teachers, however, many educators have found that they provide a variety of benefits in the classroom, including. Yet teaching is not treated as a design profession. Using technology to teach reading in the content areas. Every day, teachers design and test new ways of teaching, using learning technology to help their students. Video tape oral book reports and then have the children take turns taking the video home for all to share. Students can work together in cooperative learning groups or independently depending on your access to technology in your school district. Students will love adding images to make their story come to life.
Book reports need not be boring retellings of stories. On the top slice of bread, each student wrote the title and the author of the book. See more ideas about teaching, middle school and middle school classroom. Teachertested ideas to help kids respond to their reading with enthusiasm.
Book reports lesson plans and lesson ideas brainpop. Nov 10, 2011 below, we present some alternatives to that classic classroom assignment, the book report. Do you want to save yourself money and valuable time in planning. They simply search under tag and theyre offered a wide array. Blogs are a great way for the development of creative thinking and writing in students. Technology has a unique way of bringing some boring tasks back to life. Along the same lines as an ebook, students could use a similar template to create a pdf magazine or newsletter that is shared online on a regular schedule. Students could retell their story using green screen technology. As you look, think in terms of the theme, setting, plot line, as well as characters. For example if innocence is used throughout your book you could use a babys cradle as your base. There are many, many great ways for students to respond to literature. A great blog post about using technology in the classroom. Students can create free comic strips on bubblr using flickr creative common images. Ten great creative book report ideas minds in bloom.
Many of the suggestions integrate technology into student presentations. Writing a book report book reports can take on many different forms. The creative curriculum solutions for nearly 30 years, teaching strategies has believed that the best and most powerful way to improve child outcomes is through effective teaching. Download our free ebook the content marketers guide to data storytelling for more tips on bringing your data to life. If the book is rich in setting, then asking them to illustrate where the story takes place can also be revealing. These articles, blog posts, and videos feature ideas from veteran ell educators who have experience using technology with students of varying backgrounds and proficiency levels. Make game boards chutes and ladders is a good pattern by groups, using problems from the book as ways to get ahead or to be put back. It debates the issue of it integration in language teaching with the intention of discussing its advantages and disadvantages from the point of view of actual users and professionals from.
But in the midst of using technology for learning, we are sometimes skipping over an extremely important factor. For example, ask students to write a letter to the author, expressing appreciation for the story or asking questions. A video book report students create commercials for books theyve read. Nov 23, 2019 a far cry from boring book reports, here are book projects that students can do to share what theyve read. Create the questions that you and your classmates can use to fig. Using that app, doink, or the computer programs, imovie or wevideo, students could report straight from the setting or reenact one of the main. Here are, in my opinion, ten of the best creative book report ideas. Oct 26, 2010 after reading a book of history or historical fiction, make an illustrated time line showing events of the story and draw a map showing the locations where the story took place. The act of teaching in a novel and useful way that promotes student growth related to the development of original thought and action. Book reports are a valuable tool for assessing students understanding of independent reading, but writing report after report can become rote for studentsand reading them can be equally tedious for educators. Fun and creative book report ideas for middle school students. See more ideas about teaching, teaching reading and book report. Work to get fifty such words, phrases, or sentences so the whole sheet of paper will be covered. Book report alternatives for middle school education.
Then, do it many times over, and you will have a library of your best teaching videos, teaching all the challenges, in your way. Making in english language arts use creative technology tools to engage struggling readers and writers. Three classmates are each assigned the role of one of the characters in the book. See more ideas about biography project, teaching social studies and teaching. Instead of a book report, my students wrote a video by kim blomqvist, secondary teacher assigning book reports was slowly creeping up. A quick web search will reveal that there are many ideas out there for creative book reports, but they are not all good ideas. Easy to track storylines bright, attentiongetting imagery familiar characters that students want to read about new vocabulary, not otherwise found in childrens books if. Design a poster or new book cover depicting the climax of the story.
This archive offers 36 book report ideas that are sure to keep students interested and engaged. There are so many super creative, openended projects you can use mint tins. Using technology to teach reading in the content areas students can use technology to develop skills to excel at reading across the curriculum. Teaching and learning technology integration and innovation resources endorsed apps. Book reports, an animated resource page with lesson plans and teaching tips, for kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, shows how to write a book report with an introduction, summary, and conclusion. Do your students grumble every time you mention the words book reports.
Teaching creativity with technology facultyenlight. It gave me a good insight into who preferred which learning style while all of them got to enforce and practice their creative skills using mysimpleshow. Our talented and highly qualified instructors are permanently certified educators working in classrooms, just like you, everyday. On the lettuce, the student wrote a brief summary of the book. Another idea involving green screen technology would be to have students design and create a diorama that displays the main setting of the story if the book has multiple settings then this project may not be the best fit. Creating studentcentered classrooms, details the 10year 19851995 longitudinal research study by five apple classrooms of tomorrow acot school sites across the country, a collaboration between public schools, universities, and apple. While gold can be used with any developmentally appropriate curriculum, it has the ability to transform teaching and assessment in your classroom when used together with the creative curriculum. On the mayonnaise, the student described the books setting.
Like other design professionalsarchitects, engineers, programmersteachers have to work out creative and evidencebased ways of improving what they do. This would be another method students could create book reports by using technology. Then look through magazines for words, phrases, and sentences that illustrate or tell something about your book. Alternative book reports for the 21st century whooos. Story maps and boxes students use a storymapping template to create a story box. And thats why weve created forwardthinking, comprehensive, researchbased and researchproven curriculum resources. Create chatterpix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. Technology for technologys sake is not effective teaching. Education world presents 25 ideas for you to use or adapt. On one side of the cover, come up with 10 song titles that represent characters, events, or settings in the book.
Have you ever tried video book reports, edible book reports, paperless book reports. Teaching students creative and critical thinking minds in bloom. This teacher blogger describes the process of creating book reports. Technological innovations continue to make the world a smaller place, changing the nature of work and communication. Spice up those old book reports with some new, creative ideas. After reading an informational book, make a scrapbook about the topics. By jessica sanders using comic books in the classroom may seem unconventional to some teachers, however, many educators have found that they provide a variety of benefits in the classroom, including. In order to fully participate and thrive in a world steeped in information, students must be able to.
Fresh ideas for creative book reports education world. You can buy a premade doll cradle, make one from paper, or get even more creative using materials you find. This book explores the conditions under which technology can best be utilized, so that its potential benefits are harnessed and the obstacles tackled. Pamela moeai is an educational technology specialist, a trainer, a coach, a teacher, a mom, grammy pammy, and a baker of pies. Use these twentyfive ideas to shake up your bookrelated activities. Students identify a theme or topic of the book, then use that as the basis for a letter to the editor at a local newspaper. The explainer engine is also worth mentioning the most intelligent part of the tool in my opinion. Not your grandma s book report harpursville middle school. Yes, technology, which is something that students love and use the most, can be of great help to us in this endeavor and heres how various technological tools help enhance student creativity. Creative teaching focuses both on the methods a teacher uses to deliver learning and the overall effect those methods have on students and the outcomes. Writing a book report helps you practice giving your opinion about different aspects of a book, such as an authors use of description or dialogue.
My students are proud of their final drafts and enjoy evaluating their own work using my grading rubrics. Making in english language arts use creative technology tools to engage struggling readers and writers technological innovations continue to make the world a smaller place, changing the nature of work and communication. Beyond the book report a list of 35 ways to respond to reading. Creative alternatives to book reports lexia learning. For that reason, my own teaching practice has largely been about increasing student ownership of the class through choicedriven methods.
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