Chase Young, Ph.D.

Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

Developing Literacy through Creativity and

Technology

Overview

Readers Theatre

Scripting

Student Produced Movies

• Monday: Select scripts and read for meaning• Tuesday: Choose parts and focus on automatic word recognition• Wednesday: Focus on expression• Thursday: Practice Performance• Friday: Performance

Readers Theater (Young & Rasinski, 2009)

Readers Theater Performance

Enhancing Authors’ Voice Through Scripting (Young & Rasinski, 2011)

• Parody• Sophia Finds a Turtle

• Take it a Step Further with

SPMs

• Mentor Text• As is…or…slight variation• Voice Variation of Billy Goats Gruff

• Scratch• King Kong vs Second Grade

VIDEO

• Phase 1: Grouping • Phase 2: Idea Development • Phase 3: Script Treatment • Phase 4: Storyboard • Phase 5: Scripting • Phase 6: Preproduction Conference• Phase 7: Filming• Phase 8: Post-Production

Student Produced Movies(Young & Rasinski, 2013)

SPM Written and Produced by Second Graders

Genre: Comedy. Method: Parody

Video

Sophia Finds a Turtle

SPM Written and Produced by Second Graders

Genre: Horror. Method: Mentor

Video

The Bad News

DOAWK: Playground SceneSPM Written and Produced by Second Graders

Genre: Comedy. Method: Mentor

Video

Benefits of SPMsStudents reflected on their reading preference, identified different genres, composed summaries, drafted sequences, used their knowledge of story structure to deconstruct text and turn it into a new creation, rehearsed the script focusing on expressive and meaningful reading, proficiently wielded multiple technologies, and offered their unique understandings of text.

• Consider reading preferences (Pachtman & Wilson, 2006)

• Explore genres (Risko & Walker-Dalhouse, 2011).

• Visually represent sequences of text (Naughton, 2008),

• Compose summaries (NICHD, 2000)

• Transform texts into dialogue ideal for movie production (Culham, 2011; Dorfman & Cappelli, 2007; Young & Rasinski, 2011)

• Students utilize software to produce a movie (National Governors Association for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010)

Literacy Skills and Processes Possible Research

chase.young@tamucc.edu

Questions?

Young, C., & Rasinski, T. (2009). Implementing Readers’ Theater as an approach to classroom fluency instruction. The Reading Teacher, 63(1), 4–14.

Young, C., & Rasinski, T. (2011). Enhancing authors' voice through scripting. The Reading Teacher, 65(1), 24–28.

Young, C., & Rasinski, T. (2013). Student produced movies as a medium for literacy development, The Reading Teacher. 66(8), 670-675.

References