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Children's Books

 English WS3.9  English WS3.13

WS3.9 Produces a wide range of well-structured and well-presented literary and factual texts for a wide variety of purposes and audiences using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and written language features.

  • writes more involved literary texts.
  • rereads work during writing to maintain sequence and check meaning, changing words and phrases or checking for errors.
 WS3.13
  • responds to the writing of others with specific and constructive comments about the organisational patterns in the text.
  • discusses how language engages the reader.
  • formulates a set of criteria that analyses the content and structure of narratives for a younger audience.

 

Background Information:  

Carlton Public School school recently networked the computers. To support the K-2 students develop their reading and technology skills the teachers have indicated electronic fiction books would be a great resource to have for these ravenous younger readers.

Class Task:

Design a survey and use a spreadsheet to record your investigations of the types books and their features that K-2 read. Use this information as a starting point to assist you in resolving the design and make task.

Step 1 - Critiquing Children's Books

  1. Choose 5 titles/authors indicated to be popular from the spreadsheet data.

  2. Decide on criteria to support your critique.

  3. Use the criteria to develop a table in word.

  4. Record your analysis of the books in a table.

Step 2 - Planning

  1. Refer to the trends you find in the data you have gathered.

  2. Use these trends to story board the electronic book

  3. Draft your story

Step 3 - Publishing

  1. Select the most appropriate technology to develop your electronic book

  2. Choose appropriate fonts for K-2 readers

  3. Images need to support the story

  4. Layout needs to be consistent and attractive

  5. Author profile could be included

Resources: For ideas access the following websites.

Sample Book - Peter Rabbit More Online Samples enigma books

Janet's work samples.

Click here to see a draft story. Click here to see a table in word. Click here to see a student work sample.

Using the Edu Utility a blank power point presentation named 'book.ppt', a blank excel document 'book.xls' and blank word document 'draftbook.doc' can be placed in each students work folder. The student then opens these files to complete their work. The files are hyperlinked and can be viewed in the web browser. This ensures all students have the presentation saved in the correct folder.
Click here for a blank excel spreadsheet. Click here for a blank word document for drafting. Click here to see a blank presentation.

Learning Process & Evaluation: 
Steps I went through to create this presentation:  
I have learnt:  
I am good at:  
I  need  to work more on:  
My effort for this task has been: Quality My best work Could do better
          
Comment:

 
Indicator Progressing Towards Achieved
Information    
Responds to the writing of others with specific and constructive comments about a text.    
Discusses how language engages the reader.    
Formulates a set of criteria that analyses the content and structure of narratives for a younger audience.    
Writes a literary text suitable for a younger reader.    
Rereads work during writing to maintain sequence and check meaning, changing words and phrases and checking for errors.    
Creates their own electronic book, using a combination of text, graphics, music and spoken words to tell a story suitable for a K-2 audience.
Presentation    
Includes images downloaded from internet and/or clip art and/or scanned.    
Displays text using suitable font, size and colour.    
Organises the story and images within a PowerPoint presentation.    
Student Work    
Uses class time effectively.    
Creates best work.    
Comment: 

 

 

  


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