By using the ClarisWorks slide show template for a book report, students are encouraged to develop higher level thinking skills as they present information about their novels. Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne, paper outline of slide show. This unit occurs in the classroom and the computer lab. The teacher shows the class an example of a slide show book report on the classroom computer. She introduces them to the slide show paper outline.
Students use class time as well as homework assignments to complete portions of the outline.
The teacher monitors completion of each portion and assists students with editing their work. Upon completion of the book reports, the class will view each others' slide shows on the large overhead projector screen. Students may choose to read their own information or the teacher may read it aloud for them. The students produce summaries of a text, represent text information in different ways, respond to a story in ways that reflect understanding, support interpretations with examples drawn from text, understand and identify literary terms such as title, author, and illustrator, analyze characters, demonstrate learning through a display, and use available technology for writing. Tasks Following the completion of Mummies in the Morning, the class discusses the story elements and completes the slide show outline.