Fish in a Tree

Week 2 – Character Descriptions – FIAT

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In novels, the deliberate creation of good characters drives the story. Effective characters can create memories for the reader, which can last a lifetime. 

Welcome to Week 2 of the Global Read Aloud Challenge. This week is about the characters that we have met so far in our novel. Characters are an integral part of a quality story. As readers, we make connections with the different characters and learn from their experiences during the story. There are many layers to a character, which the writer uses to keep the reader interested and to develop the plot.

This week, you have the choice to participate in the Padlet, the Popplet or both.

Task 1 – Padlet

This task focuses on an antagonist or protagonist in the story. For the Padlet, you need to answer the question as a class, and then post your response. Alternatively, you can take an image of your work as a class and upload the image. We will be moderating the Padlet, so posts will be approved prior to being published (this may take several hours). A big thank-you to Viki Allen, who has kindly offered to be a co-moderator for this task.

Task 2 – Popplet

The character analysis guide below is for those classes wishing to create a Popplet to share their ideas about one of the main characters. You can save an image of your Popplet and post it on the Global Readers blog, or  you can create your class response using a different method and share with the group.

Characterisation Analysis Popplet
Characterisation Analysis Popple

I hope you enjoy this activity !

🌏🌈😄 Mrs  Helena Tully (Qld Tech Brekkie Crew)

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Mrs Helena Tully is currently a Primary school teacher (Grades 5/6) with a passion for reading, writing and all things creative! She is located in Tropical North Queensland and works in a small school. Mrs T is absolutely delighted to be introducing students to the wider world through technology! She is a member of Queensland Tech Brekkie Crew. She loves to connect and collaborate with teachers from around the world and can be found on twitter @tullycrew.

 

LA 6 Heffler

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Demarest Middle School

Demarest Middle School- Demarest, New Jersey

We are 85 students in the sixth grade at Demarest Middle School. Our school houses grades 5-8. Demarest is a small town in Northern New Jersey, but quite close to New York City. In the center of town is a beautiful duck pond, and historic train station, surrounded by a few shops. We are a 1:1 school, and are lucky enough to have Macbooks for each student. We enjoy all four seasons, and are looking forward to the fall when we begin the Global Read Aloud with Fish In A Tree.

We just received a signed poster from the author in the mail!

 

Our Collaboration Begins

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Global Read Aloud

 

We have been counting down for weeks from all corners of the globe. The time has finally come around for Global Read Aloud 2015 to officially start. Our group’s collaboration consists of 30 amazing classes, two books, 1 University and tech-savvy guest contributors. Over the next six weeks we will participate in a range of activities that will integrate reading comprehension skills, creativity, technology resources and digital citizenship. Join us in celebrating quality books, authors and promoting a love of reading.

 

Fish in a Tree – Sketchnoting

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Sketchnoting

Sketchnoting builds a connection between verbal and visual components. It is a personal form of note-taking that activates the brain in the process much the same as doodling. Doodling is a way of thinking, of drawing information around a thought process.

TASK

Make visual notes (sketchnotes) about the main events from a chapter in the book. Take photos and upload your notes to the blog or use any available apps to make your visual notes. Label which chapter you are sketching about.

Consider.. Who? What? When? Where? How? Why?

What visual representations will best describe…

* The sequence of events?

* The emotions of the characters?

* The impact of what happened?

* The text you will use?

TOOLS
Paper & pencil or black felt tip pen
OR
Ipad apps – Bamboo Paper, Paper53, Bookcreator
(It’s easier to do your first sketchnote on paper)
EDUCATOR RESOURCES

Sketchnoting – Intelligent Notetaking – explains my passion for sketchnoting, what and why we sketchnote with basic shapes and examples to support beginners.


Sketcho Frenzy – Basics of Visual Notetaking – explains fundamentals of text hierarchy, words as images, and the structure of sketchnoting.

 

 

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Zeina is the Leader of Learning & Innovation at a Primary school in Sydney. She loves sketchnoting, lego and coding on her ipad. Zeina runs the makerspace (you can check us making at #stfmaker) at her school where students come to code Sphero Robots, create things with Littlebits and Makeymakeys, create amazing structures in Minecraft and sometimes even cardboard! Zeina loves connecting and collaborating with teachers from around the world on twitter. She would love to share your sketchnotes with her followers @ZeinaChalich

 

FIAT Padlet Predictions

Mrs Pratt Fish in a Tree, Week 1

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Hi everyone!

For this predicting activity, I have created a word cloud using Wordle. The word cloud was generated by entering the book’s blurb into Wordle. If you are familiar with Wordle, you will know that the more often a word occurs, the larger the word in the word cloud.

To participate in this activity, view the word cloud with your class, and discuss your predictions. I think that given the large number of participants, it will be a lot easier to create one post per class to share your students’ thoughts about what the book is going to be about.

Clicking on the word cloud will take you directly to the Padlet that was set up for us to share our predictions. Please note that the Padlet is going to be moderated by myself and Tam so we keep it safe (this means your post may not be published instantly, but we will check and publish at regular intervals every day).

On another note, the irony of using a word cloud featuring a variety of colours and an unsual font in the context of a dyslexia-themed book is not lost on me (!). My first thought was to use a plainer black and white design for the word cloud, but after reading that highly contrasting colours make it more difficult for people with dyslexia to read, I changed my mind. I think if we ensure that we share this word cloud orally and as a whole class, we will support each and every child to participate in this activity.

I very much look forward to reading everyone’s predictions!

Enjoy!

🙂

Emmanuelle