Templates

//This page contains templates for activities and lesson planning that will be useful to teachers who wish to integrate stories and storytelling into their world language classes.// toc

=1 - ACTIVITY TEMPLATES=

Comic Strips
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E-Books
- Links to instructions and a downloadable template

Felt Board & Flannel Panel Stories
- Template for creating a portable flannel board from a pocket folder

- Template for creating a large, portable flannel board

- Sample flannel panels with people and animals (available commercially)



Finger Puppet Stories
- Make simple finger puppets from pipe cleaners and pom pons

- Patrones para títeres de fieltro (extensive list of links to patterns for puppets with instructions in Spanish)

- Step-by-step instructions for building a fold-up puppet theater (accompanied by diagrams)

- Fantastic site with downloadable paper bag puppet patterns, resources, and materials

Foldables
- Templates for a wide variety of different kinds of foldables

- A wiki dedicated to foldables (includes templates for different types)

Graphic Organizers
**-** Graphic organizers for scaffolding scientific writing (in English)

- Excellent, very professional-looking collection

[|Graphic Organizers] - Free, printable graphic organizers from Teach-nology

- Graphic organizer templates organized by function ([|analyze], [|brainstorm], [|compare and contrast], [|evaluate], [|hypothesize], [|interact], [|sequence], [|visualize])

Pop-up Books
- A photo index of darling pop-up animals and cards (for which you can download the templates).

- Step-by-step instructions with diagrams for turning photographs into pop-ups

- Download the PDFs, print them out, and create a pop-up house (Instructions in Japanese)

- Blog in Japanese that contains lots of ideas and photos about making pop-up books

Sentence Frames
- Lists of words students can use when contrasting, comparing, describing, sequencing, or writing about cause and effect

[|Text Structure Frames] - Templates that scaffold various types of informational paragraph writing (in English)

[|Text Structures] - A single worksheet containing text structures, definitions, signal words, summary questions, paragraph frames, and graphic organizers for each of the 5 major informational text structures

Shadow Puppet Stories
- (Out of a cereal box)

[|Ocean Life Shadow Puppet Templates]

- Templates for a Chinese dragon and emperor

Smoosh Books
- Extinct Animal Project

[|Illustrated Instructions & Template]

- Photo instructions and a link to a template

[|Photo Instructions in PowerPoint]

Storyboards


=2 - ASSESSMENT TEMPLATES=

- This online tool allows you to select //Digital Storytelling// in the //Multimedia Projects// section, and then customize a rubric based on pre-set categories. You can also search for "digital storytelling" to find rubrics other teachers have created

- This online tool allows you to select a type of digital storytelling assignment, and then customize the parameters to create your own scoring guide

=3 - PLANNING TEMPLATES=







=4 - SCAFFOLDING STORY-RELATED PROJECTS=

- 5 key questions and core concepts re: media literacy


 * Literacy Development Activities
 * Pre-Listening/Reading/Viewing Activities
 * During Listening/Reading/Viewing Activities
 * Post-Listening/Reading/Viewing Activities
 * [|Questions to Elicit Stories] - A brief list
 * Techniques for Circling (This link will take you to a page on another wiki)

[|Video Warm-ups] - An extensive list of fun, interactive activities to prepare students to create stories on video

- A beautifully designed site that walks students through the pre-, during, and post-production stages of video production (note the tabbed navigation on the right)