It was Malene’s turn to have a lesson. She used “Voices in the park” by Anthony Browne.
It strated with talking about what the pupils thought the book was about just by looking at its cover. After that it was a read-aloud from youtube. After the read-aloud she asked the pupils (us) if our assumptions was correct and if we understood what happened in the book. The last thing we did was to write a new part of the book. In the new part you had to pick a new character whom the story was told by. Someone was a cloud, others a dog, I was a statue. All of the new stories was to made into a new book for the classroom!
I would really want to use this task as an opener for creative writing. Here the pupils have a finished story, they only have to rewrite the narrative and what that follows. I think I would have used it in fourth grade.
– Lisa
Great written and a good feedback and summary. I agree with you, it was a fun presentation. It is very inspiring to see how to use a book to get students to do creative writing. You are also good at making positive features after the presentations, and write about it afterwords in the blog. A wish is that you might come up with something you would have done differently, or give a constructive reflection to your posts about the presentations as well? If you feel like it, of course.
I found this blog post to be a good summary of Malenes presentation. And really good that you give us excamples in how you would use this in a classroom. The languahe in this post could have been a bit more varied but overall I learned a lot, and your reflections gave me some ideas to use on my own in the future.