Lisa describes how she used the curriculum from “A Tale Unfolds” to have her fifth graders write, perform, and produce their own movie from start to finish.
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Lisa discusses A Tale Unfolds, a literacy-based filmmaking resource based in the UK. The writing skills are based on Alan Peet’s focus on sentence types.
She explains how she implemented it, how successful it was, and how it helped her students become much more confident and better writers.
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Lisa aligned the UK curriculum to show the CCSS it addresses