Tara+O

Imaginative Narrative: Fractured Fairy Tale Sleeping Beauty-full

By: Tara Ollis

EDU 355 media type="custom" key="29117337" __Standards and Objectives (4th grade)__ **W.4.3** Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. **W.4.3.A** Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. **W.4.3.B** Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. **W.4.3.E** Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. **W.4.5** With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. __Prompt__ Using the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty", fracture it to create your own twist of the popular story from the perspective of an average girl or boy. As you write your story remember to:
 * Use descriptive details to support the topic/subject of your story.
 * Make sure your story is complete and has a beginning, middle, and end.
 * Check to be sure that you are writing good paragraphs.
 * Focus your story on what happens up until after main character is woken up.
 * Complete a flow chart.
 * Meet with the teacher as well as a fellow student to assist with revising/editing.
 * Use your best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

__Reflection__ Using Voicethread will be useful in my future classroom because it will allow me to be creative with my students, giving me an entertaining yet educational tool. This is definitely something upper level elementary students could do with their writing assignments for a fun project. Being able to make their stories come to life through voices and pictures of their choice will provide motivation to create a really good story because they know their classmates will be able to watch what they have done. It could also be a collaborative activity where they must work with a group of peers to create the Voicethread. However, I feel that the students would need a thorough tutorial from myself on how to use this technology because it was kind of difficult to figure out. I had issues figuring out where to record the audio for each slide as well as how to share it onto the Wiki website. I would set aside a day just for learning how to utilize the website and making sure the students fully understand how to operate it. After that, assigning Voicethreads for my future class should be easy and an exciting way for my students to be involved in technology considering it is such a huge part of society now. Students should be exposed to various types of technology in order to broaden their experiences and skills. Also, some students might learn more efficiently through the use of technology so attempting to provide differentiation for those students is vital. I hope to be the teacher who prepares their students for as much as possible and doing so with the help of technology like Voicethread.