ECI 546: New Literacies and Media
Course Artifact:
The Inquiry Learning Project required students to create and implement an investigative project utilizing technology. My partner and I decided to focus on Kindergarten students and their abilities to identify basic story elements and enhance their comprehension skills.
My Project:
We began our project by reading Jeanette Sanderson’s version of the classic story, The Three Little Pigs to a group of three kindergarten students. After the story was read, each student created three pictures depicting the beginning, middle and end of the story. Students then shared their three pictures and provided an oral retelling of the story, which was recorded using iMovie. The entire class then viewed the three movies created. The three movies served as inspiration to write our own version of The Three Little Pigs, which we used as our script for our puppet show. To further increase student comprehension, each student created puppets of the main characters and worked in teams to draw scenery that depicted the story’s setting. Finally, to conclude our project, students worked in teams of five to present a puppet show based on the own version of the story that we wrote as a class.
Inquiry Learning Project Questions:
1) How can having students create a digital story enhance their understanding of story elements (i.e. beginning, middle, end, main characters, and setting)?
2) How can creating a play, based on fellow classmates retelling of a story, enhance the classes’ comprehension of basic story elements?
Curriculum Connections:
North Carolina Standard Course of Study:
English LA Objective 2.01:
Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
English LA, Objective 2.09: Identify the sequence of events in a story.
English LA, Objective 3.04:
Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text (listening to and re-visiting stories, discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories, & discovering relationships).
The following video is our Inquiry Learning Project:
The Inquiry Learning Project required students to create and implement an investigative project utilizing technology. My partner and I decided to focus on Kindergarten students and their abilities to identify basic story elements and enhance their comprehension skills.
My Project:
We began our project by reading Jeanette Sanderson’s version of the classic story, The Three Little Pigs to a group of three kindergarten students. After the story was read, each student created three pictures depicting the beginning, middle and end of the story. Students then shared their three pictures and provided an oral retelling of the story, which was recorded using iMovie. The entire class then viewed the three movies created. The three movies served as inspiration to write our own version of The Three Little Pigs, which we used as our script for our puppet show. To further increase student comprehension, each student created puppets of the main characters and worked in teams to draw scenery that depicted the story’s setting. Finally, to conclude our project, students worked in teams of five to present a puppet show based on the own version of the story that we wrote as a class.
Inquiry Learning Project Questions:
1) How can having students create a digital story enhance their understanding of story elements (i.e. beginning, middle, end, main characters, and setting)?
2) How can creating a play, based on fellow classmates retelling of a story, enhance the classes’ comprehension of basic story elements?
Curriculum Connections:
North Carolina Standard Course of Study:
English LA Objective 2.01:
Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
English LA, Objective 2.09: Identify the sequence of events in a story.
English LA, Objective 3.04:
Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text (listening to and re-visiting stories, discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories, & discovering relationships).
The following video is our Inquiry Learning Project: