Today's session was a very hands on creating day filled short, sharp and longer create tasks that can be used to help embed ideas and capture readers interest from your students.
Dorothy took us through the pedagogy and research behind WHY create is so imperative to our teaching and student learning. We are the gatekeepers! We need to make time and intentionally provide opportunities for create in our students' learning.
Check out my slide deck for some of our create tasks.
Slide 1 - Creative illustrator and performer - We used one of the 2 prompts provided to come up with our own take on an image that would match the text. I created mine using Gemini as it is provided for our students in their Google suite. Other apps suggested were Craiyon and Canva.
Slide 2 - 'Tighter & looser' session - This gave us ideas on how tight or loose we made our scaffolds/templates for the student create tasks. We were provided with many ideas of the types of templates, then had to create our own based on a text we were planning to use in the up coming weeks. My text was about Lizards in the L2 School Journing - June 2024.
Slide 3 - One shot film - We got to create a book trailer to try and sell a text to our class. I used quick time to record mine on my laptop in one of our podcasting rooms with the blue background. I then used imovie to put in the blue screen and produce my promo video for Selina Tusitala Marsh's book - Mop Head.
Kiri also took us through some great examples of longer create units that have been used throughout the different clusters. These are great examples I'd really like to get to one day - especially if I get a chance to start novels with a group of higher readers in my class.
One thing I will be implementing next week - Will be a short create task before we read the whole text - just like we did in todays lesson. And I will also make an effort to make time for a 'tight' create task for all my groups next week.
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ReplyDeleteFantastic create activities here. I love the lizard and I hope your learners enjoy this. Your use of gemini AI for the poem background worked well, something that your learners should be able to do too.
I loved your choice of book for your book trailer as MopHead is one of my favourites. My granddaughter has lots of very curly hair and it always reminds me of her.
Although your learners may not be quite ready to take on novels yet perhaps there are elements of some extended reading they may be able to manage with the support of some create tasks. Perhaps chapter books or a shared reading book over an extended period of time. At least you will have the ideas ready. It would be great to see if they could manage a one shot video talking about their favourite books. Something perhaps for later in the year.
Good luck with the planning and implementation of your create tasks for next week. I'll look forward to hearing about how it goes, as it is a great way to engage and aid transfer to long term memory. It'll be those tasks that your learners will be reminding you about in a few years time!
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Janet