Phil Smith teaches French in Ireland and Tina and I were lucky enough to meet and work with him in Agen last summer in our evening coaching sessions. After this year of creating stories with images created by his kids he sent us a few of them with some valuable insights. I particularly like the Bob et Shane story. It shows what is possible when kids and inspired teachers get together using the Invisibles Star process:
Ben –
Here are a few stories my classes created this year, and illustrated by members of the class. Bob and Shane and Shuen Shuen le rat (so named by a Chinese girl in the class).
A couple years ago if you told me this is the type of thing I would be doing in class I would not have believed it. I was really inspired by what S. Krashen said in Agen about compiling student stories and creating a library of resources that grows year by year. I also like the idea in the readings of taking screen shots of their drawings and including them in the final copy of the story. The students absolutely love to see their drawing included in the final version of the story.
Phil