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Ideas to Extend this Project
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Show students how to find open-source images and insert them into their folktale or story. Open-source repositories include:
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Ask students to draft pre-reading questions, comprehension questions, and discussion questions. Students can try them on each other and give feedback prior to submitting a final draft.
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Review authentic author bios as mentor texts. Encourage students to notice what kind of information is in the bios. Students can also be encouraged to notice grammar such as pronouns and verb tenses. Students then interview each other and write bios about each other. Use sentence templates to support students’ writing. If students agree, take pictures to accompany the bios and include them in the book. Look here for a sample of sentence templates and author bios from The Folktale Project.
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Ask students to create a digital version of the story or folktale. They can each create their own or they can collaborate in groups to create one of the group’s stories.
