RDG
579 Technology in Reading and
Language Arts Instruction
Spring Semester, 2008
Catherine Kurkjian, Ed.D.
Electronic Author Study
You
will develop a PowerPoint author study that you can use with your students that
provides background information on your designated author. Link to an author
site and create a short scavenger hunt for the children to do to learn more
about the author. Provide an engaging electronic book talk for 4 of your
author’s books. Ideas for your electronic booktalk might be: inclusion of a
“passage to ponder” that might catch the children’s interest, a letter
from one of the characters to another, a simulated journal entry from one of the
characters, a character web, a list of questions you might want to ask a
character if you could talk with them, links to websites that may relate to
something important in each of the particular books. Website links might have to
do with the setting of the book, the problem, the time period, the topic etc.
and will serve to build background and will entice the readers to read the book.
Please develop your electronic author study so that you can really use it with the children you teach. Gear it to their level and make it visually appealing and engaging. Try for no more than 10 slides or web pages for this project. Remember you are just giving them “a tasty morsel” of information about the author's books to whet their appetite.
Sample Projects:
Leo Lionni by Jodi Klimas Carol Smurak by Joy Cooper
Louis Sachar by Michael Pearce
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Grading Checklist: Electronic Author Study and Booktalks Name:
_________________________________ Date________________ Author: Booktalk
Books: Grade
level of students for whom this project is intended: .5
1 1.5 2 low
average high 1.
Links to Author’s website and develops a brief but engaging activities
that are written clearly and help students notice and learn about aspects
of the author's work. ___________X2=___________ 2.
Scavenger hunt includes some open-ended responses and encourages the user
to build background information and interest in the author and his or her
books. ___________X2=___________ 3.
Book talks are visually appealing and entice the reader into reading the
book. ___________X
2=__________ 4.
PowerPoint is easily navigable for the age group it is intended for and
the content is age appropriate. ___________X
2=__________
5. Author study
includes a rubric that focuses on performance and student learning
about the author being studied. 6.The Author study
has be designed and implemented to differentiate instruction in light of
element 2.2. _________X 2.5=____________
Total
Points Possible: 25 points Total
Points Earned: ____________ Note: Please hand in this sheet on the day of your technology presentation. Thank you! |
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