Aim: To enable students to describe past events in a literary text (tales).
- General Aims: To produce an anthology of tales created by the students.
- Language aims: To extend vocabulary and to learn specific expressions used in tales and stories by reading examples of stories, in order to produce their own tales of minimum one page and to improve the writing abilities of the students .
- End Product: Anthology of student’s tales and oral presentation of them.
- Subproducts: Drafts of tales.
- Location: School premises.
- Resources: Tales and books from the biblioteca de aula and others from other sources, photocopies from the stories, bilingual dictionaries, chart with genre classification.
- Student preparation:
- Ask students to read the tales and identify the parts of the stories, the main characters, the vocabulary and expressions used and to infer the tense the tales are written in.
- The teacher explains to the students the generalities of the project.
- Procedure:
- Share and discuss the tales they have read and identify tales expressions, characters, verbs used, time and location, parts of the tale (introduction, knot and solution) genre or topic of the tale, sequence words and the length of the tale.
- Both the teacher and the students brainstorm key words and key expressions to create an example draft of a tale with actions in past tense. All the group check and observe what type of tale they are expected to create. The teacher clarifies doubts and states specifications. Teacher presents the list of genres to the classroom for reference.
- Students divide themselves or with the help of the teacher according to the genre of the tale they want to write: adventure, fiction, love, fantasy, horror, mystery, suspense, etc.
- Each team brainstorms key words and expressions to create their tale.
- In their teams, students decide the characteristics of their story: characters, plot, time, place, etc.
- Ss decide the title, and write a draft of the tale. The teacher checks the use of language, coherence and cohesion. Students correct and rewrite the tales, and turn in it for a second revision and spelling. SS correct their mistakes.
- Students write the final version and add pictures and/or drawings.
- Ss present their tales to the group through an assigned storyteller. And further more, to their parents.
- Tales are collected and organized in a book. The group decides who can make the cover and the index of the anthology.
Follow – up: T Monitors students for the use of language within the teams for communication and within the project. Evaluation of the process and end product.
Variation: The group decides which tale like the best to present it in the weekly civic ceremony, parents meeting, reading festival, literary events and/or digitalize and publish the anthology in the Web.
Comments: Students involved in this project will be acknowledged in a public ceremony in order to motivate them to continue developing skills.
Students have used the Biblioteca de Aula books and in Spanish class they have been working with stories, novels, legends and tales throughout the second grade, and therefore have experience reading and interpreting these type of texts