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From Comics to Trading Cards Teaching New Literacies Using ReadWriteThink

From Comics to Trading Cards Teaching New Literacies Using ReadWriteThink.org. From Comics to Trading Cards. Emily Manning Lee Elementary Denton, Texas. ReadWriteThink.org highlights. What is it?

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From Comics to Trading Cards Teaching New Literacies Using ReadWriteThink

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  1. From Comics to Trading Cards Teaching New Literacies Using ReadWriteThink.org

  2. From Comics to Trading Cards Emily Manning Lee Elementary Denton, Texas

  3. ReadWriteThink.org highlights • What is it? • A free website produced by IRA and NCTE and supported by the Verizon Foundation as part of the Thinkfinity Program • What does it offer? • Research-based lessons • Internet integration • Who is it for? • K-12 teachers • Afterschool programs • Parents and mentors

  4. Fractured Fairy Tale Tool http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=62 v • Plan and write fractured fairy tales • Helps to teach • Plot • Setting • Character • Point of view • Higher-order thinking • Works with different settings • Small or whole group • General ed. or special programs

  5. Fractured Fairy Tale Tool http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=62 New Literacies • Publish to blogs or webpages • Collaborate with other classes • Create script for digital narratives

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  7. Try it Out and Create Plan and write your own fractured fairy tale!

  8. Character Trading Cards http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=56 • Integrates popular culture texts • Helps to teach characterization • Traits • Motives • Relationships • Serves as prewriting or literature response

  9. Character Trading Cards http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=56 • New Literacies • Publish original works of fiction to: • Blogs • Podcasts • Online children’s sites • Collaborate with classmates

  10. Try it Out and Create Use a character from your fractured fairy tale to create a Character Trading Card

  11. More Student Materials • Comic Creator • http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=5 • Letter Generator • http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=21 • Diamante Poems • http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=53 • Crossword Puzzles • http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=68

  12. Try it Out and Create Try out another Student Material. See if you can include characters from your fractured fairy tale.

  13. Some of my favorite lessons • Taking Photos of Curious George: Exploring Character Through Images (K-2) • 3,2,1…Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Trip to the Moon (K-2) • Is Superman Really That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes (3-5) • Writing a Movie: Summarizing and Rereading a Film Script (3-5)

  14. Survey BYOL Evaluation Link: http://www.iste.org/byol2008

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