1. PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Presentation Friday July 15th, 2011
Creative writing across the curriculum
LAS NOTICIAS
Using a thinking hat!
La Opinion:
1. Dissect the news paper and find all the possible sections.
2. Compare a news paper from weekdays and one from weekends
3. Compare La Opinion to an English speaking paper
4. Computer lab and explore online papers from South America and Spain
4 corners to select a section of the news paper: sports, CA, USA, world.
Oral reading
Silent reading
Current events
Musical reading chairs (short text for them to read at each chair) or the comics
Art: using letter cut outs create signs, postcards, letters, etc
Use the newspaper to make a: skirt, coat, dress a Professional in groups (ballerina, doctor)
Highlight specific things in an article: example: find verbs!!
Find compound words
Find cognates
Find adjectives
Find syllabus one, two, three
Find professions, places,
Find accents and categorize them
2. Dramatize a story from an article
Pictures of the paper given to students for them to try to figure out the event
Advanced students to record an article or teacher and ply it back to the entire class
Lower level student listen and follows along
News cast presentations in class: live in the classroom or record it
Real or fake news (remember the storm inside the class: cookie tray spray water flash light) (commercial
interruption) (narrated a recorded game himself) (interacting with the recording of an anchor at a remote
location)
Project base learning: FINAL
Create a school news paper (pictures, editorial, news, games,
Field trip to La Opinion
2 articles in LA Opinion about my students