March 12, 2008

After our last class, I understood our multigenre projects much better.  I am doing my project on Matt Kenseth and I’m having fun doing it.  It’s very addicting!

February 28, 2008 

After looking at the multigenre project pictures on the ppt…WOW!  They were impressive and very creative!!!  I am a little overwhelmed now.  I know that I can use multigenre with first graders and ReadWriteThinkhad some great multigenre lessons for the primary grades. I thought some of the lessons would be very challenging for my class especially the research part.

I have been thinking about my topic for a while but I’m not sure if it is a good idea.  I would love to do my project on a NASCAR driver (yeah, I must be a redneck) named Matt Kenseth because I want to learn more about him. Racing is how I connect with some of the boys in my classroom and I grew up watching (and sleeping through) races every Sunday with my dad.  Would this be a good topic?  Who is going to be my audience?  Is it other teachers in this class?  My family and friends?  My students?

 After looking at the lists of genres, I already use poetry, plays, songs, posters, timelines, and drawings in my classroom.  I would like to use more fun ways of sharing information such as radio reports, board games,  and bumper stickers.  I have an ABC book that I made about first grade that I can bring to class.  I can use my ABC book to model and show the children how to create an ABC book.  Plus, there are lots of ABC book literary models available.  I cannot think of any additional genre right now that I would add to the lists on the websites, the Moulton article and page 5 in Writing Without Boundaries.  These lists have a lot of possible genres!

I also want to add that I love the student materials on ReadWriteThink.  For example I like  the acrostic poem site (for primary students)http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/ and graphic organizers http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/animal-inquiry/