One
goal for Glen Acres Elementary School and Jefferson High School
is to motivate students to read for pleasure. One way to do this
is to have them understand and appreciate the total process of
creating a book. We brought a children’s author, Wendy Anderson
Halperin to teach them the creative element of finding the idea
and creating the artistic images to tell the story. Bonnie Stahleker
came to teach the processes of making a book from cover to cover.
This process included learning about the author’s work,
inspiring the students to write and illustrate and ended with
the final product:
a personally authored handmade book.
Information Literacy Standard
5 states that: The student who is an independent learner is information
literate and appreciates
and enjoys
literature and other creative expressions of information. In keeping
with that standard, the student will appreciate the intensive process
of creating literature, the process of research in creating an
authentic book, the artistic process, the writing process and the
bookbinding
process. The final product will be a book to share.
The evaluation
stage was the final book sharing with community, family and peers.
The second evaluation stage was reading and sharing their
books with students in each class in the school.
The timeline went
seamlessly. The addition we would make would be to have the students
do self-reflecting journal writing following
each day.
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