Little bird tales

TITLE OF THE TASK: Let’s create our Egyptian story

AIM OF THE TASK: -Students will have to create a draft about a story. (This story will have to take place in Egypt, and their main characters will have to be Egyptians God, Cleopatra, slaves, pharaoh, priests, nobles, craftsmen, scribes, sphinx, among others). -Students, using the knowledge they have been developing during the whole unit, will have to write the story in a paper. -Students will have to act out the story, so they can work on the speaking skills as well as the pronunciation. - Students will have to get used to the Littlebirdtales 2.0 tool.

DESCRIPTION OF THE TASK: (What are they going to do? How are you going to organize them? Steps to follow and final product) Students are going to be grouped in working teams. (3 or 4 pupils in each group). Pupils will have to create a draft about a story. This story will have to take place in Egypt, and their main characters will have to be Egyptians God, Cleopatra, slaves, pharaoh, priests, nobles, craftsmen, scribes, sphinx, among others. They will have to follow the story structure: characters, setting, problem and solution. Once they have finished their draft, I will correct it, using the editing marks you can see in the Annex 1. They will get the feedback of the draft and then they will have to modify it. Once they have corrected they draft, they will have to choose which member of the group is going to act out each character. And they will have to practice pronunciation, intonation, etc. Later one, they will have to use the Littlebirdtales tool, in order to upload some pictures related to the story. After that, they will have to register their story, and save it. The result will be a video of their Egyptian story and its explanation.

WEB TOOL (link): https://littlebirdtales.com/

Tutorial about the web tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lqIPL-dAN8

I think it is a very useful resource because we tend to use the ordinary book to tell stories and show the images to our pupils it could be a little bit difficult because the images are small and not all pupils can see them. We can modify or adapt a story to make it easier or increase the difficulty level. We can also create our own stories depends on what we want to teach; so if we want to work some values we can make a story to transmit our students these values.

I think that using new technologies while they are developing a story and everything around it, pupils can learn a lot of things, as for example, they can interiorizes the differences between the genres, they can interiorizes the structures of the different kinds of texts, they can practice intonation and pronunciation, and so on. I think that if we foster the use of this resource we will maintain the motivation of pupils; they can make their own story. And we can plan that after they have finished their stories, students can show them to younger pupils. But we have to take care during the explanation about how does this resource works, and we will have to anticipated which kind of problems students can find during the elaboration process.