Easy Book Reports with iMovie
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Write First
Practice Practice Practice
And don’t forget to practice filming!
Fluency Fluency Fluency
Then Film
NOT JUST FOR STORIES
How would you change or structure this activity for your
specific level?
CREATIVITY
COMMUNICATIONCOLLABORATION
CRITICAL THINKING
The Four C’s
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What other areas might you use iMovie for and what would
that look like?
Wifi FotoTransfer
How to Use…
Type this in your
computer URL
Your iPad Camera Roll will now be visible on
your computer
Open the camera roll and choose
a picture
Right click…
Choose location and save
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Did you know…..?On the integrated model of literacy…
Although the Standards are divided into Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and
Language strands for conceptual clarity, the processes of communication are closely intertwined…
California Common Core State Standards 2013 The integrated model of literacy Page 3
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Did you know…..?
Teachers are therefore free to provide students with whatever
tools and knowledge that professional judgement and experience deem to be
most helpful for meeting the Standards.California Common Core State Standards 2013 A Focus on results rather than means Page 3
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Did you know…..?
They (students) are familiar with the strengths and limitations of various technological tools
and media and can select and use those best suited to their communication goals.
California Common Core State Standards 2013 They use technology and digital media strategically and capably page 6
Which of the New ELD Standards
did students cover in the iMovie Book Report project?
1. Exchange information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and academic topics
2. Interacting with others in written English in various communicative forms
3. Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges
Collaborative
1. Listening closely to spoken English in a range of social and academic contexts
2. Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed explicitly and implicitly through language
3. Evaluating how well writers and speakers use language to support ideas and arguments with details or evidence depending on modality, text type, purpose, topic, and content area
4. Analyzing how writers and speakers use vocabulary and other language resources for specific purposes (to explain, persuade, entertain, etc) depending on modality, purpose, audience, etc
Interpretive
1. Expressing Information and Ideas in formal and presentations on academic topics
3. Writing Literary and informational texts to present, describe, and explain ideas and information, using appropriate technology
4. Justifying own arguments and evaluating others’ arguments in writing
5. Selecting and applying varied and precise vocabulary and language structures to effectively convey ideas
Productive
Expanding and Enriching Ideas
1. Using verbs and verb phrases
3. Using nouns and noun phrases
5. Modifying to add details
Connecting and Condensing Ideas
1. Connecting Ideas
2. Condensing Ideas
Using Foundational Literacy Skills
1. Native language and literacy
3. Similarities/differences between native language and English
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