Week+5


 * Week 5 (Feb 06 -12, 2012) **

During this week participants will:

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 * have an overview of the possibilities for developing learner's **reading** skills in a digital world
 * discuss what they´ve acquired for their teaching toolkit and assess their own learning during the session
 * evaluate the workshop

**Week 5 Tasks ( February 6 - February 12, 2012)**


 * # [|Task 1 - I've Got it Covered-Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts]
 * 1) [|Task 2 - Using Plays to teach about characters, plots, setting and conflict in Dramatic Tragedy]
 * 2) [|Cool Extra Idea - Publish your ebook]
 * 3) [|Online resources for educators]
 * 4) [|VERY IMPORTANT - Session Evaluation]
 * 5) [|Help Desk]
 * 6) [|Completion Checklist] ||

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= **Task 1** **-** I've Got it Covered-Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts =

1. Read through this great lesson plan: I've Got it Covered-creating magazine covers to summarize texts.

2. Choose **ONE** of the texts in the page below to read:

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3. Access ReadWriteThink interactive tool and create your own magazine cover, newsaper page, or brochure to summarize your text.

4. You can print it if you want, but take a screenshot of it and share with us in your digital portfolio. Add the link to your digital portfolio post in our edmodo page. Remember to give us the direct link to the text you decided to read.
 * (To take a screenshot, you generally have a Prt Scr key on your computer that you can use to capture your screen and make it an image) **



5. Other tool options that you might consider are:

- Use the newspaper clipping generator **Fodey** to write your summary

- Access **Bighugelabs** and create a **MAGAZINE COVER** with your text summary

**How to use this idea with your students**

Choose some examples of informational texts for your students. The students will read the text and use a graphic organizer or take some notes of specific facts. Then have them access this online student interactive tool which will guide them through the process of summarizing a piece of text using a brochure, flyer, newsletter or booklet. Students will type in their information. Once the brochure is finished, the students add their images or drawings to complete the brochure.

Here is an example of a brochure summarizing a newspaper article in progress.

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= **Task 2 -** Using Plays to teach about characters, plots, setting and conflict in Dramatic Tragedy =

1. Read through this wonderful lesson plan Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict and Plot in Dramatic Tragedy.

2. Think of you own teaching contexts. Which story would you choose to work with your students?

3. Share with the group how you'd adapt the original lesson plan to use with your students. Include in your post the plot you'd choose, and how you'd carry out the reading/writing activity with your students.

4. Write a post about it in your digital portfolio and share it with us in the **comment area** below.

= **Cool Extra Idea -** Publish your ebook =

Here's our final idea for you to try out and then use it with your students.

Creating readers one at a time!

Create the best readers by publishing with ebooks and [|epubbud].

You can focus on what readers want to read, what keeps readers engaged, how to tell a story and then by using social media, how to connect readers with your authors!

If you want some suggestions for an activity to try with your students so they can create an 'ebook', check this out.

Once you create your own activity you can upload that and share it with the world.

Here is the activity created for this last week to give you an idea of its potential

**Online resources for educators**
**[|Reading Comprehension on the Internet: Expanding Our Understanding of Reading Comprehension to Encompass New Literacies by Julie Coiro]**

**[|Read Write Think]- list of lesson plans and resources**

**[|Read Write Think]- student interactives**

**[|Publish an eBook]** **- publish an ebook** 

= VERY IMPORTANT - Session Evaluation =

We´ve come to an end of our journey, which doesn´t mean it is over! We´ll be together in Edmodo, we´ll keep interacting and sharing ideas.

Now, it is time to evaluate our session so that we can keep improving our online training that we put together especially for you, educator.

Please, take your time to answer this survey and to tell us what you thought and gained from this experience: **@http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V88MLQ6**