Purpose of the project

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Purpose of the project

• To integrate technology in the classroom
• To present the children work in an innovative way
• To be able to share with other teachers our work
• To be able to teach our children to be part of
  the technological world.

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Patricia Polacco

• Author Study
• By Fatima Ricardo and Margarita Glassberg P.S.128

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• Born in Michigan, on July 11,1944
• Of Jewish and Christian background
• Learn to love story telling from both sets of
  grandparents
• Learned to read at fourteen due to learning
  disability(dyslexia)
• Communicated her feelings through her art work
• Writes about multicultural themes, traditions and
  how alike we all are.

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Teaching Goal

• Our goal in this project was to teach the
  children to appreciate the value of literature.
• Teach that books are interesting and have
  valuable lessons
• Get the children familiarized with an author
• Get the children to understand an author style by
  analyzing her work

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Some Books by Patricia Polacco
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Patricia Polaco Author Study Attribute Chart
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Student Forum Discussion
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Student Participation
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Students Involvement
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Classroom Procedures
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Interest graph
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Student book Reports
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Students work Sample

• By using the venn diagram reading strategy the
  students compared and contrast characters in the
  story.

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Student work sample

• Character study to compare two characters in the
  story.
• Children filled in each character description to
  compare them.

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Student created worksheet

• Students created a worksheet to respond to
  literature by using the program Writing Blaster
  6-9 by Davidson.

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Pay Off

• Children showed comprehension of stories
• Children understood a writing style
• Children made self to text connections
• Children gained motivation and interest in books
  by an eye of an author
• Children learned appreciation of other cultures