Friday, December 1, 2017

Storybird Narrative Assessment


Learner: Athena & Darius with LH6 (LH6)                  
Learning Coach:  DWilkes                    Date:   November 2017
Learning Area: iDevelop - Literacy - Creative Writing
NZC Achievement Objectives:   
4Cs Observed:
*Recognise how to shape texts for a purpose and an audience.
*Form and express ideas on a range of topics.
*Use language features, showing some recognition of their effects.
Success Criteria:  use Storybird to write a creative story with rhyming words.
  • WALT: Use and read rhyming words   
  • WALT:  communicate
  • WALT: Build vocabulary

Athena and Darius Collaborated with LH6 and Connected to their prior knowledge and to the pictures in the story.
Learning Observed
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Athena and Darius began to learn about Storybird when the Hickey hapu wrote the story ‘Quack the Cat’ together. Both learners were happy that Ms Wilkes made them their own accounts.  Some LH6 learners came to work with us and their buddy was LH6.

LH6 patiently helped them to login to their Storybird accounts and helped them use the program so their funny, creative ideas could become a story. Each boy used their own account for their story.  It was challenging for Athena and Darius to remember to try to use -at words in the story but they loved looking through all the pictures. It was good that LH6 helped them stay focused and they created some interesting stories with her.  LH6 helped the learners to stay on task, and together they created some wonderful creative stories which were inspired by the pictures they selected from the Storybird library.  Initially LH6 did most of the typing but all of the ideas came from the Athena and Darius. LH6 came to work with them 6 times for 25 minutes.
Athena and Darius have very unique ideas and demonstrates a growing understanding that they are writing for an audience and that the purpose is to entertain.  They used some appropriate and purposeful language features as well- such as metaphor, alliteration and rhyme.  Read the amazing stories where embedded below, by clicking on the links or by logging into Storybird.

Here the link to their story:
Evidence of learning
Next Learning Steps
I strongly encourage them to login to www.storybird.com at home using the login details: so they can continue to practice writing on their own at home.
  • Username: DT104690 →  Password: thankyou for Darius