Happy Meal Commercial

First of all, I saw the commercial for McDonald's that we analyzed in class the other day, and I couldn't help but notice the film shots we talked about! :) Has anyone else seen it and done the same thing?!
Today we are editing our commercials and I am pretty anxious to see how they come out! I think it is such a great activity to do for youngsters and I hope that I am in a school that is financially able to provide cameras to do that.

Literacy Moves on Chapter 6-10

Chapter 6 talks about the Beanie Baby fad that spread across the nation. I think anyone can recall the day they collected every beanie baby they could, and made sure to eat a happy meal every day just so they could get each beanie baby of the happy meal toy set. I was one of those people! Looking at this, I can see why it would be in a teacher's best interest to bring fads like this into the classroom for children to reflect critically and discuss in terms of literacy. This reminds me of our happy meal toy invitation in class. Who would have thought there could be so much literacy involved in a happy meal toy!?

Our Literacy Invitation

I am pretty excited to be able to create a literacy invitation for the classroom. Our group is focusing on learning more about pollution from oil drilling, and we are doing various literacy activities surrounding this topic. I think it is a great way for students to learn more about a topic relevant to their own life, and do literacy activities surrounding it. One example of an invitation we are doing is a poem in reaction to a still image of an animal covered in oil. Something like this will provoke emotions and feelings from a student, and in end the end create a beautifully written poem!

Literacy through film making

To be honest, at first I was really confused on how the film making workshop would advocate literacy in the classroom, but was very surprised to see how much literacy is involved! From writing a scrip, reading about film shots, and conversation among group members to create the film, literacy is involved through out it all! I must say I really did enjoy it and thought it was a fun and creative way to use literacy in a classroom. I know elementary students would thoroughly enjoy this type of workshop.

Some remarks on readings in Literacy Moves On

To begin this book, the introduction states how there is now a vast range of text available to young readers. That is such a true statement!! Literacy is so much different from when our parents were in school. There are so many outlets for children to explore and I find that to be really neat. As stated through out these chapters, it is important for teachers to understand how text and modes work, as well as to encourage students to use multimodal representation to communicate their ideas. I think it is important to explore different modes of text because it allows students to become more engaged with literacy. It could help students from becoming bored and create a more well-rounded education for the student.