Tell Me: Children, Reading and Talk by Aidan Chambers
The author has provided a website that corresponds to the text with additional resources such a lists of novels, iPad texts, and short stories. He also lists more professional articles.
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A brief synopsis of The Crane by Reiner Zimnik
In an ever-expanding city, one young man claims the job of his dreams, operator of the tallest crane around. Since others envy his position, he never leaves his crane, always eager for the day—and work—to begin.
As the seasons pass, man and machine almost become one. "The crane was a giant with iron sinews, and the craneman was its heart." Then people begin to hoard their goods, grinning ravens multiply throughout the land, and war is at hand. But the craneman never falters, remaining at his post even when the land is flooded, ready for reconstruction to begin.
-taken directly from http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Crane.html?id=ALJ1VhEtITUC
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It appears as though the text deals with dark themes of war, devastation, and isolation but in a charming way.
The following animations were created based on excerpts the author provided to bring book talks to life: the following dialogues are nine year olds conversing with each other and their teacher. The teacher is still relatively new to the process.
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Resources
Chambers, A. (1999). Tell me: children reading and talking. Great Britain: Short Run Press.
Hello Ann, found a link to this post in Google Reader, which fortunately is still active. It is great to see you're still using your blog as well as GoAnimate. When you have a chance, let me know if you are using this blog post with your students or for your new course this semester. Great use of both GoAnimate and Blogger. I think I will show this post to the students in the EDUC 584 course still running on campus. It well illustrates the many ways GoAnimate can be used.
ReplyDeleteHi Judy!
ReplyDeleteI am using blogger for my coursework and this tool makes it very easy to have everything in one place. For my students, I use Kidblog but I don't like it as much.