Shannon

Imaginative Narrative: Fractured Fairy

//**The Easter Bunny **//

//**and the **//

//**Three Peeps **//

By: Shannon W. EDUC 355

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6th Grade Fractured Fairy Tale Writing Prompt You are to select your most favorite or least favorite classic fairy tale. Set the story in the present day or future. You can also change the country, region, or city in the story. Change your characters from what they are in the original fairy tale. Be sure to change some of the original elements of the story and change the ending. Be sure to use: **When you are finished with your draft, you will meet with your 6:00 partner and revise and edit each others papers.
 * dialogue
 * transition words
 * descriptive language
 * organization of events
 * conclusion
 * planning, revising, editing, with peers

Standard W.6.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. Standard W.6.5: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
 * **W.6.3.A:** Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
 * **W.6.3.B:** Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
 * **W.6.3.C:** Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
 * **W.6.3.D:** Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
 * **W.6.3.E:** Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experience or events

Overview

I really enjoyed using the Voicethread program to narrate my Imaginative Fairy Tale. At first, I was a little apprehensive about using the program because I was worried about how my recorded voice was going to sound since I have such a heavy Southern draw. Surprisingly, it did not sound that bad or at least I do not think it sounded that bad. I liked being able to see my drawings and my story come together by listening to it instead of reading my story on paper. The entire program was very user friendly.

I believe that Voicethread would be a very valuable classroom interactive collaboration tool. Voicethread is very engaging for students and would be a great learning tool for visual learners within the classroom as well. Voicethread could offer my students an alternative way to discuss literature by listening and reflecting through audio and images. Students would able to "show" what they are learning. Depending on the grade level I am teaching, I would either put my students into pairs or let them create their own individual Voicethread stories. The program is so user friendly that I do not believe that time constraint would be an issue in the classroom while my students were using it. Before beginning the program, I would make sure that I spent time with each student teaching them the correct way to use Voicethread. I think that students would be very excited and eager to learn with this type of tool in the classroom.