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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
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.
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