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Creative Writing3rd Grade Unit

Allison KennedySpring 2016

Background source throughout this Power point:

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Technology Integration RationaleTechnology is incredibly important in helping students cultivate their creative writing potential. It aides them in increasing their vocabulary, preparing the planning of their writing, collaborating with peers, and sharing their finished work. Technology allows students to work together, peer-edit, and publish their works of writing in a creative and non-conventional way. In this presentation, we will learn how students can benefit from incorporating technology into learning about different styles of writing especially creative writing. There are many different means in which teachers can integrate blogs, videos, smart board activities, and websites that incorporate creative writing tools.

Technology Integration RationaleThere are many benefits to adding technology into teaching subjects for students, which will be seen within this presentation. Students are able to view the teaching topic through many different platforms, and on a level that they are able to relate to. Students can participate in interactive games, collaborate on their writing pieces, and be able to write and illustrate their own pieces into a final draft with many different technological tools presented in this PowerPoint. The 21st century incorporates technology into many different areas of these students lives so it makes sense that teaching creative writing should be no different, and find ways to incorporate technology into the lessons as well.

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Evaluation and Citation of Internet Content All websites used in this presentation were found from reputable sources such as a university or government site, and have proven to be reliable sources of information.It is so important to ensure that trustworthy and dependable sites are used when discussing educational matters, in order to have the most reliable and up-to-date information to be educating your students with. All websites have been cited within the presentation in order for the viewer to be able to be directed to the original website in which the information originated from.

Blog

Write Away with me is a blog that prides itself on inspiring young students to become passionate creative writers, and to assist teachers in sparking that passion within their students. This blog runs professional development opportunities, after-school programs, and workshops for teachers, students, and parents to help develop these skills. They pride themselves on developing students writing, creative thinking, and storytelling skills throughout their programs. Click on the picture to go straight to this teachers blog and learn about the programs and opportunities to learn about creative writing!

http://www.writeawaywithme.com

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Blog

This blog post is dedicated in helping teachers instill excitement within students creative writing opportunities. This blog shows teachers how to make students writing public using QR codes with an app on their phones. This makes writing even more fun and engaging for students to share with their teachers, friends, parents and connects it to technology in a fun, interactive way. Click on the picture to view this teachers blog, and learn more about making QR codes within your classroom for your students writing!

http://www.luckylittlelearners.com/2015/05/improve-writing-with-qr-codes.html?m=16

PodcastThis podcast by KCNJDavis is a great tool for teachers in reviewing the steps in order to implement effective teaching in creative writing.While giving teachers the steps in teaching this form of writing, the podcast also delivers student work from a 6th grade student who just completed her own creative writing piece.

Click the speaker button to listen to the Podcast!

http://kncjdavis.podbean.com/e/teaching-creative-writing/7

Youtube video

Click on the picture taken from this fictional world creation lesson in order to watch the Ted-ED lesson for yourself!This TED talks educational mini-lesson video gives viewers a lesson on how to create their own fictional settings within their creative writing pieces. It gives examples of how great writers such as J.R. Tolken, and J.K. Rowling created the dimensions of the universes within their novels, and how we can create them within our creative writing pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTQSbjecLg8

Instructional video

Click on the picture taken from this instructional creative writing video in order to understand what ideas and strategies this third grade lesson teaches! This instructional video can be a brief opening lesson for students in order to understand what goes into the creative writing process. This image from the video describes the form in which an essay is written, using a hamburger example with the condiments being all of the details that need to be added within creative writing pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVI9HcsdIuA

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Internet ResourcesInternational Literacy AssociationLiteracy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, compute, and communicate using visual, audible, and digital materials across disciplines and in any context. International Literacy AssociationReading RocketsMost children enter school with a natural interest in writing, an inherent need to express themselves in words Reading RocketsThis site gives teachers with building an engaging and involving creative writing curriculum for their students, to help flourish their interest in writing.Teaching Creative Writing in Elementary SchoolThis site discusses the absolute importance of being actively involved in teaching creative writing to your students, and how beneficial it is for them as learners. It gives suggestions for how to teach the subject, how to give feedback, and how you can instill the importance within your students.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/teaching-creative-writing

http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-3/writing.htm

http://www.literacyworldwide.org10

Kidspiration

A Kidspiration lesson example whereby students can create their own characters for a creative writing exercise. This helps students with their imagination, and their detailed writing skills in order to make them skilled creative writers, all while using technology to aide them in this process.Click this image to view this Kidspiration lesson site, and to download this creative writing file!

http://www.inspiration.com/community/Kidspiration-Activity-Harry-Potter-Creative-Writing-Exercise11

Kidspiration

More Kidspiration exercises that can assist students in their creative writing skills. This exercise, dealing with the use of adjectives, can help students become more descriptive when discussing the creation of their setting or their characters within their story.

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Kidspiration

Kidspiration exercises that assist in creating more descriptive language within students when discussing character traits. This activity allows them to interpret what each character would wear depending on the event that the child is attending, then allowing them to create their own event to dress a character for.

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Teaching Materials: worksheet

This worksheet is a hands-on way for students to be able to think creatively with some aides, as they are starting their education in creative writing. They are allowed to roll the dice to see where their story will take place, a character that will appear, and a problem they will need to solve and the rest is up to them!

http://msjordanreads.com/2012/08/11/roll-a-dice-literacy-fun/14

Teaching Materials: worksheet

This is a graphic organizer worksheet that can be helpful for students to understand different parts of a story that they have read, in order to understand the different elements they must add in their own creative writing stories.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Common-Core-Graphic-Organizers-for-Reading-Literature-Grades-3-5-388799

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Teaching Materials: worksheets

More creative writing worksheet prompts, to help students in beginning the creative writing process. Click on any picture to go to the website and download these worksheets!

http://www.freehomeschooldeals.com/free-creative-writing-prompts-community-helpers/

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Theres an app for that!

This iPad app, along with many others that are listed in the site linked to this image, is a great resource for kids to make creative writing a fun and interactive experience. This app allows students to create their own stories as well as pictures and background scenes that go along with it.

http://www.technologytailgate.com/2013/01/create-apps.html?m=1

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Theres an app for that!This is called Book Creator for iPad, and is one of the top rated creative writing apps I have found. This app allows students to create their own iBooks which means they are able to share their pieces to teachers, peers, and parents. They can add music, narration, videos and illustrations to make their books come to life.

Click the picture to read more about this app! They have since updated this app, which isnt noted on the website, but it is now free and works with not only an iPad, but an iPod/iPhone, and other smart phones, as well.

Many great app resources within these two websites:

http://www.technologytailgate.com/2013/01/create-apps.html?m=1http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ipad-apps-for-creative-writing-monica-burns

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Smart Board uses

This is a creative way to utilize the Smart Board during an activity, like writing, that is more independence-geared. This gives students a visual time span so they know how long they have to write, they know what they should look like, sound like, and feel like while writing, with reminders to keep writing!

Smart Board usesThis is such a fun use of the Smart Board in creating a fun story starter that kids will enjoy! This Scholastic website allows teachers to spin the wheel on the Smart Board in order to choose a random and fun story starter for kids to begin their creative writing pieces about. Many teachers have reviewed this site and only said positive things about how excited their students were to write after using this fun story starter activity.Click the image to go straight to the Scholastic site to try the website out! Its also a great tool for iPads!

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/20

Subject-Specific Internet-based ResourceRead Write ThinkI would use this website within my classroom to support my topic of creative writing with the many tools and teaching opportunities that this resource has for teachers and students. This website gives many teacher-friendly resources such as lesson plans and subject-specified units, as well as student interactive activities and iPad/tablet apps to assist students with their learning. This website gives professional development opportunities as well as parental and after-school support for students who need extra help in this area of subject matter. This resource gives many different activities that are differentiated by grade-level in order to teach creative writing to many different age ranges.

http://www.readwritethink.org21

Uses of the InternetThis website allows teachers and students to search through a large selection of childrens stories. This can aide students in understanding the products of their creative writing and can give them inspiration or ideas around their own creative writing pieces.

Click on this picture to go straight to the Online Childrens Storybooks website to view the many different selections they offer!

http://www.magickeys.com/books/

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Uses of the InternetScholastic gives teachers many different resources and lesson plans in order to aide them in the creative writing teaching process. It breaks each lesson plan into grade-level and subject-level in order for teachers to differentiate their lessons.An additional website, Creative Writing Teaching Ideas gives teachers so many fun and interactive ways to incorporate creative writing into their curriculum. These prompts and story ideas give teachers and students an exciting way in which they can use their imagination when coming up with creative writing stories.

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/writing-fiction/creative-writing-ideas

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=65823

Web 2.0 Uses of the Internet

This computer program, Storybook Weaver Deluxe, is a software that allows students to participate in their own creative writing with use of backgrounds, characters, and pictures in order to stimulate their creativity. This program assists students in improving their creative writing skills while being able to illustrate their own stories in a fun, and interactive way. Click on the picture to learn more about this program, and to be able to download the program to your computer!

This computer software includes a Teacher Resource CD to include lesson planning and user guides in the classroom setting in order for students and teachers to use this site and collaborate together with their writings. 24

Web 2.0 Uses of the InternetThis is an amazing social networking website that can be created within classroom environments in order for students to collaborate and share their work with their peers and teachers. This site is controlled by the teacher, so nothing can be posted that is not school appropriate. Click on the picture to learn more about this social networking site!

#creativewriting #iloveschool !

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