Spelling Patterns

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Collaborative Learning | Transformation Level

Subject: Language Arts

Video Transcription

[Teacher voiceover]

Our first graders worked with our eighth graders to bring some technology into our classroom, and also to learn about the letters and sounds that they represent. In first grade with our phonics instruction we’re teaching spelling rules and spelling patterns, and the children really embraced this, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to bring technology into the classroom. Since I’m not that much of a technological person, I enlisted the help of our eighth graders. So we got together and I talked about what we wanted to create, which was a video to share the knowledge that we’ve learned in first grade of all the rules of the spelling patterns based on the characters that we study.

In the pre-planning stages the children selected words that represented all the spelling patterns that we learned, and then we brought the eighth graders in and they began to collaborate on skits that they would do to represent the sound. The kids worked in small groups together, and in the end they edited all the work together and added sound effects. So they took the information that we planned, along with the information that they came up with, and they made their videos. The end result is a video for anybody to learn any type of letter sound pattern that they would like to know.

Video Transcription

[Teacher voiceover]

Our first graders worked with our eighth graders to bring some technology into our classroom, and also to learn about the letters and sounds that they represent. In first grade with our phonics instruction we’re teaching spelling rules and spelling patterns, and the children really embraced this, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to bring technology into the classroom. Since I’m not that much of a technological person, I enlisted the help of our eighth graders. So we got together and I talked about what we wanted to create, which was a video to share the knowledge that we’ve learned in first grade of all the rules of the spelling patterns based on the characters that we study.

In the pre-planning stages the children selected words that represented all the spelling patterns that we learned, and then we brought the eighth graders in and they began to collaborate on skits that they would do to represent the sound. The kids worked in small groups together, and in the end they edited all the work together and added sound effects. So they took the information that we planned, along with the information that they came up with, and they made their videos. The end result is a video for anybody to learn any type of letter sound pattern that they would like to know.

Objectives

Students will select words that represent the spelling patters that they learned.
Students will make mini-posters of the word that show the spelling pattern and a picture of the word.
Students will collaborate with 8th grade students to write a script.
Students will collaborate with 8th grade students to film their video.
Students will collaborate with 8th grade students to edit their video.
Students will watch their finished product.

Procedure

Students will select words that represent the spelling patters that they learned.
Students will make mini-posters of the word that show the spelling pattern and a picture of the word.
Students will collaborate with 8th grade students to write a script.
Students will collaborate with 8th grade students to film their video.
Students will collaborate with 8th grade students to edit their video.
Students will watch their finished product.

Technology Present

Laptops
Video Cameras
Tripods

Grade Level: K-2

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