Crankie Contraptions
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Tell an illustrated story with a screen-based machine! Assemble a folding frame, illustrate a story and roll out the sequence or narrative on a paper scroll “screen.” Strengthen planning, drafting and sequencing through creative visual storytelling.
Suggested Grade Levels
K - 5
Educator Provides
Drawing materials.
Event/Activity Time
20 min
Extended Learning Time
60 min
Resources
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Coaching Guide
Standards Alignment
Features
CASELÂ Skills
Math Common State Standards
NGSSÂ Standards
K-2-ETS1-1
3-5-ETS1-3
ELA Common State Standards
- Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
- Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
- Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges
- Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text
- Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- Write narratives in which they recount a well- elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
- Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
- Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
- Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher- led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly
- Orient the reader by establishing a situationand introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
- Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text
- Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
- With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts)