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Links and Resources – Language Arts, Fine Arts, Narration Cube
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http://picturingamerica.neh.gov
This is a beautiful site for art images, etc.
Here are links to some Language Arts pdf’s you can use for specific practice or as a jumping off point for work in Daily Grammar (online grammar practice site) or during/before composition lessons.
Six Traits of Analytical Writing Assessment pages (I haven’t previewed all of this page, just the ones linked under traits)
Various documetnts on writing skills, etc.
And finally this great little tool for making your own Narration Cubes.
I took one of my kids small wooden block cubes and wrote on it with sharpie to make my narration cube. 🙂
I did the same thing Christie.
I like these because I can come up with more specific narration questions and then just print the pattern on cardstock, fold and tape. I’ve used them for conversation starters, ice breakers at meetings, for specific novels, etc. Print a half dozen on different rainbow colored cardstock and pile them in a pretty bowl …. it spruces up narrations for a week at least!
Could one of you give examples of what you might write on these cubes? Would it be something like, “Give five things that you can recall from the passage that we just read.” ?
Sure, that would work. Or any other of the items Sonya and the SCM team list on their narration ideas page. I’ve kept a rainbow colored list and lots of bookmarks around forever with my kids. But cubes are fun because you can roll them or toss them in the air and see where they land.
You can build cubes that are for written narrations and ones that are for oral narrations or just for family narrations. You can make them for Nature Study or walks … throw the cube down the path …. what did it land on? Oh cool, what do you see at eye level? …. or something along those lines.
That would make narations so much more fun for my kids! I also never thought about using it for a nature walk. Thanks for posting, Claire – I always love your ideas!
I am a nut for new narration ideas. My kids are demanding this way! LOL. So it’s made me get creative. I think it is important to get them thinking. A “tell all” narration is one of the easiest to do and where I usually start with my kids. But then it’s good to have them go down different paths that require them to not only remember what they’ve read or what has been read but then to create something with that knowledge. For Science narrations I often ask them to draw what was described in the chapter (an experiment or invention or event in the life of the person.)
Glad it’s helpful. I’m really trying to post more concrete examples of things I do on the forum because I want others to do the same so I can get new ideas too!
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