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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. **


 * What is your compelling question? ** How can the use of the digital tool Storybird motivate readers and writers to create a unique published product around a central theme chosen by the students? **
 * What initial ideas do you have for your PBI? **Students will be strategically placed in groups of three. A unit on theme will have already been taught to the entire class. Anchor charts will have already been created listing examples of common themes found in rich literature. The students in each group will choose a common theme from the lessons previously taught to create a story that is centered around this chosen theme. Together the group of three will write a unique story and publish it using the digital tool Storybird.**
 * What is your target age group? **3rd and 4th graders**
 * Think about TPACK. What content will you focus on? What pedagogical approaches will you use? What technologies will you use? **We will focus on creating a story starting with the theme in mind. Students will utilize the writing process as they create their own unique story around a chosen theme. The story must include a beginning, middle and end as well as a problem and solution. Lessons will be taught using direct instruction on the topic of theme and identifying the central message of stories, songs and poems read aloud to the class during mini-lessons. Lessons will also be taught on how to create a writing plan and then how to write a draft using said plan. Teachers will model how to use Storybird using a projector and laptop as the class works with the teacher to create a Storybird example retelling a previously read story from our theme unit. This will allow the students to learn how to use the digital tool and the expectations that are set for this project based on a rubric given and explained to the students during this time. Technologies that will be used include ipads, desktop computers, laptop computers, projector, apple tv, document camera, and Storybird.**
 * What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address? ** [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2] **
 * Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. **
 *  [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2] **
 * Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. **
 * [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3] **
 * Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. **
 * [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3] Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. **
 *  [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.4] **
 * With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.) **
 * [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4] **
 * Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.) **
 * [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.5] **
 * With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 3 [|here] .) **
 * [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.5] **
 * With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 4 [|here] .) **
 * [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.6] **
 * With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others. **
 * [|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.6] **
 * With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting. **
 * What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI? **We would like to have this done by the end of October. We will spend 1 week teaching theme; 1 additional week for project expectations, modeling how to use Storybird, modeling how to use a writing plan and then how to use said plan to create a draft. We will then spend 2 weeks creating the projects. During this time students will create a plan, write a first draft of their story, revise and edit this draft and then create and publish a Storybird product.**
 * What materials and resources do you need to be successful? **Picture books with a strong theme present; graphic organizers to use to create a writing plan;** ** ipads; desktop computers; laptop computers; projector; apple tv; document camera; Storybird. **
 * What part of the PBI do you find or anticipate will be most difficult to plan? **Creating a rubric of expectations for this project**
 * How do you plan to prepare to overcome these anticipated difficulties? **We will start our preparations with creating the rubric to get that behind us so that we are planning with the end in mind, knowing how we would like for the projects to look at the end.**
 * What other questions to you have about the PBI project? **We do not have any other questions at this time.**

Hi! This is a great question. Storybird is a good tool for 4th grade. Mary Lynn--you mentioned coordinating with a teacher from another country on your Forum post. If you want to connect with Min Li from Beijing Royal School, please do. She teaches 4th grade. Her email is limin@bjroyalkids.cn Min Li was in this same class last Fall and received her NLGL degree this August. Thanks, Hiller 9/30/2015

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

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