Format
1. Using her book, "Story Puzzles, Tales in the Tangram Tradition", Valerie tells a tangram story and explains the process of creating an object with the tangram pieces.
2. Your students will explore examples of student created tangram objects.
3. We discuss "Character, Problem, Solution" and identify these elements in familiar stories.
4. Students create their own tangram objects of their choice such as a boat, tree, castle, rabbit, or person by gluing their pieces together on a sheet of paper.
5. They brainstorm and begin a short personal narrative, or fiction or non-fiction story to go with their tangram object they create.
6. Students brainstorm with Valerie as they are creating and writing.
Students will need several sheets of paper, a glue stick and pre-cut tangram pieces. Valerie will send you the pattern.
Objectives
Students engage in active learning when creating their tangram objects to go with their story.
The participant will:
1. create several of her or his own tangram pictures or objects using pre-cut tangram pieces.
2. begin writing his or her original story using their tangram objects.
3. tell her/his own version of one of the stories Valerie told.
4. be able to identify the important parts of a story.
5. compare one of Valerie's stories to a story he/she is already familiar with.
6. develop an awareness and appreciation of stories that are told orally (without the book).
7. be able to identify the geometric shapes of square, circle, rectangle, triangle, parallelogram, diamond.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Valerie will tailor her program to the standards that you want to meet with this program. If you want to cover particular standards, let Valerie know and she will include those standards.
NC/CCSS.ELA
Literacy RL K.1 to .8, RL .1 to .10
Writing WK.1 to 8.10
Speaking and Listening K.SL.1 to 5.6
Art NA-VA.K-4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.6, NA-T.K-4.2, NA-D.K-4.1,4.3
Math:
K.G.A.1,K.G.A.2, 1.G.A.1, 2. G.A.1
State Standards
Valerie will align her program to your state standards for your grade level.
For example:
Indiana: Literature: K.RL1 to 4.2,
Writing K.W.1 to 5,
Speaking and Listening K.SL.1 to 4.3