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You will use the PBI process to develop your project.
====Be sure to design toward your rubrics for your 5 minute video and 8-10 page paper.====

**I. PBI Planning Draft of your INITIAL PBI plans. Collaboratively with your partner, complete the following questions by September 29. Write your answers here on the wikispace under each question below. If you don't some of the answers yet, share what you can at this point. **

> **, RL 2.1 ( Ask and answer such questions as // who, what, where, when, why //, and // how // to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.) ** > **, and RL 2.5** **(** **Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.**) Hi! This is a great compelling question. You can reference the Writing to Learn research to support the idea of using writing to enforce comprehension. Teacher modeling is a great way to get the student on board with blog responses. Let me know if you have other questions. This is going to be a great PBI.
 * What is your compelling question? **Using the tool Edublog, how does writing about what you've read improve reading comprehension skills?**
 * What initial ideas do you have for your PBI? **Use a whole class read aloud story to facilitate a discussion about the particular story. Our students will then use their knowledge of the discussion and understanding of the text to answer teacher created questions through blogging. Once response is posted, students are to choose one classmate to respond to using discourse such as "I agree..." or "I disagree."**
 * What is your target age group? **2nd Grade**
 * Think about TPACK. What content will you focus on? What pedagogical approaches will you use? What technologies will you use? ** We will focus on reading comprehension for our content. Our pedagogical approach will be through facilitated discussion and writing/blogging. We will use Edublog as our technology. **
 * What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address? **RL 2.7 ( Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.) **
 * What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI? **Our projected time frame to implement with students is 4 weeks.** **Week of September 28: Introduce Edublog to students by teacher modeling how and what to blog after reading questions. Week of October 5: Students will begin to blog during Daily 5/CAFE centers about the read aloud in class. Teacher can model discourse on student posts to show what response posts will look like the next week. Week of October 12: Students will respond to a classmate using discourse. Week of October 19: Videotape student responses about the blogging process.**
 * What materials and resources do you need to be successful? **Technology (ex. iPads or computers), read aloud books, Edublog, and teacher created questions.**
 * What part of the PBI do you find or anticipate will be most difficult to plan? **One of the most anticipated difficulties will be teaching students to respond to classmates via the technology tool while demonstrating understanding of CCSS and text.**
 * How do you plan to prepare to overcome these anticipated difficulties? **The teacher modeling one week prior to activity engagement of how to respond should help students overcome this barrier of what/how to complete this task.**
 * What other questions to you have about the PBI project? **How much research on how writing about what you've read needs to be implemented into our PBI paper?**

Here is a resource on writing to learn: Ganske, K. (2014). Write Now!: Empowering Writers in Today’s K–6 Classroom.

This meta-analysis showed a positive effect size for grades 1-5:

Bangert-Drowns, R. L., Hurley, M. M., & Wilkinson, B. (2004). The effects of school-based writing-to-learn interventions on academic achievement: A meta-analysis. Review of educational research, 74(1), 29-58.

Hope this helps! Hiller

===II. Design space for paper planning===

===III. Design space for video documentary development===