Yesterday I got to hang out with Mrs. Gilmartin’s friends at Echo Lake Elementary. Her students had been working on story elements such as setting, characters, plot, problem and solution. She wanted our lesson to focus on these elements and also introduce her students to the new iPad cart at Echo Lake.
For this lesson we divided the students into five teams, we assigned each group a picture book. These books were Enemy Pie, A Bad Case of the Stripes, Library Lion, Stellaluna and Chester’s Way. Students used their new iPads to access the new StoryLine Online app. They listened to their story and followed along with the picture book.
After they had listened to the story they worked together as a team to identify the story elements from their book. Then they each grabbed an iPad and created a collage in PicCollage. Students were able to change the background, take pictures from the illustrations in their books and add labels and text to their collages. They saved their finished product to the camera roll and then uploaded it to Seesaw so I could share their projects with their teacher. It’s not often that I get to help with language arts lessons so I was pumped to give this one a try!
