This document provides guidance on using iMovie to create easy book reports. It recommends practicing filming and developing fluency before filming a book report. iMovie can be used for book reports and other projects to develop creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. The document also discusses how the iMovie book reports address various California ELD standards and encourages readers to create movie magic.

1. Easy Book Reports with
iMovie
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3. Write First

4. Practice
Practice
Practice
And don’t forget to practice filming!

5. Fluency
Fluency
Fluency

6. Then Film

7. NOT JUST FOR STORIES

9. How would you
change or structure
this activity for your
specific level?

10. CREATIVITY
COMMUNICATION
COLLABORATION
CRITICAL
THINKING
The Four
C’s
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12. What other areas
might you use iMovie
for and what would
that look like?

13. How to Use…
Wifi Foto
Transfer

14. Type this in your
computer URL

15. Your iPad
Camera Roll
will now be
visible on
your
computer

16. Open the
camera roll
and choose
a picture

17. Right click…

19. Choose location and
save

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Did you know…..?
On the integrated model of literacy…
Although the Standards are divided into
Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and
Language strands for conceptual clarity,
the processes of communication are closely intertwined…
California Common Core State Standards 2013 The integrated model of literacy Page 3

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Did you know…..?
Teachers are therefore free
to provide students with whatever
tools and knowledge
that professional judgement and experience deem to be
most helpful for meeting the Standards.
California Common Core State Standards 2013 A Focus on results rather than means Page 3

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They (students) are familiar with the strengths
and limitations of various technological tools
and media and can select and use those best
suited to their communication goals.
California Common Core State Standards 2013 They use technology and digital media strategically and capably page 6

23. Which of the
New ELD Standards
did students cover in the
iMovie Book Report project?

24. Collaborative
1. Exchange information and ideas with others through
oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and
academic topics
2. Interacting with others in written English in various
communicative forms
3. Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and
persuading others in communicative exchanges

25. Interpretive
1. Listening closely to spoken English in a range of
social and academic contexts
2. Reading closely literary and informational texts
and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is
conveyed explicitly and implicitly through language
3. Evaluating how well writers and speakers use
language to support ideas and arguments with
details or evidence depending on modality, text type,
purpose, topic, and content area
4. Analyzing how writers and speakers use vocabulary
and other language resources for specific purposes
(to explain, persuade, entertain, etc) depending on
modality, purpose, audience, etc

26. Productive
1. Expressing Information and Ideas in formal and
presentations on academic topics
3. Writing Literary and informational texts to present,
describe, and explain ideas and information, using
appropriate technology
4. Justifying own arguments and evaluating others’
arguments in writing
5. Selecting and applying varied and precise
vocabulary and language structures to effectively
convey ideas

27. Expanding and Enriching Ideas
1. Using verbs and verb phrases
3. Using nouns and noun phrases
5. Modifying to add details

28. Connecting and Condensing Ideas
1. Connecting Ideas
2. Condensing Ideas

29. Using Foundational Literacy Skills
1. Native language and literacy
3. Similarities/differences between native
language and English

31. Go make some movie MAGIC!
Marlena Hebern
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@mhebern