“The best way of teaching literacy is to have someone who is passionate about stories”
~Alice Lucey (Head of Middle School Division)
~Alice Lucey (Head of Middle School Division)
What Images Stand Out?In This Activity: Within this activity the students will be asked to 1) read a short story, 2) storyboard images, 3) find or create photographs that tell the narrative, and 4) as a final project create a class mural portraying the story using selected images from each student.
Literacy: Storytelling,Visual Literacy, Reading Why?: Using visual literacy to tell a story with no words. Giving students the opportunity to explore images and their storytelling abilities Age: Sixth-Eighth Grade Class periods: 2 (will take longer than one class time) |
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http://poestories.com/stories.php
Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe http://cdslatin6.weebly.com/daulaires-book.html D’Aulaires’s Book of Greek Myths: 6th Grade Latin, Greco-Roman Mythology |
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