This document discusses how technology can be used to support the Common Core standards for 5th grade English Language Arts and literacy. It provides examples of standards involving using digital sources to find information and using multimedia to enhance presentations. It then describes new comic creation software that allows students to create comics using online images. It provides literacy and content area ideas for comic projects. Examples of completed comic projects are also included. The document emphasizes planning projects before starting and discussing copyright issues related to images. It also mentions other digital tools like Voki that allow creating talking avatars to explain concepts or retell stories.

1. Technology in the
Common Core

2. Some of the Language…
5.RI.7 Draw on information from multiple print or digital
sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a
question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
5.RL.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements
contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text
(e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of
fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
5.W.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 two pages in a
single sitting.

3. 5.W.7 Conduct short research projects that use several sources
to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects
of a topic.
5.SL.5 Include multimedia components
(e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations
when appropriate to enhance the development of main
ideas or themes.

4. Next Generation Science Standards
Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and
fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the
distribution of water on Earth.
Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless
of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing
substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
Use models to describe that that energy in animals’ food (used for
body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was
once energy from the sun. [Clarification Statement: Examples of
models could include diagrams, and flow charts.]

5. New comic creation software
in Lab 129 only.
Create comics using pictures
from the internet.
Literacy Ideas
– Convert a favorite part of a book to a comic – or recreate the
rising and falling action.
-Writing an original story.
-Change an ending to a story.
-Show What You Know about a Literacy unit.
-Change the setting of a fiction book.
-Point of View Stories.
-Bring a Poem to Life.

6. Social Studies Ideas
-A famous battle or event
-Time line
-Travel guide through a region
-Interview a famous person
-Holidays explained
Math/Science Ideas
-Explain a concept
-Explain Math Word Problems
-Comic from an animal, rock, planet… point of view
-Explain how a geometric shape is used/seen in the real world
-Mathematician report from the Mathematicians Point of View
-Math in the Real World

7. Things to keep in mind:
1. Always storyboard your story before you even enter the
lab.
2. Collect pictures based on the storyboard. Remember to
talk to your students about pictures that are copyright free
or that are cited.
3. Make sure students save to their Documents, then export
as a PDF (it will use less ink that way).

8. Examples
Interview With The Blood Timeline Poem
Exploring with Columbus How-To Student Newsletter

9. Make a Writing Assignment

10. http://www.parcconline.org/samples/english-language-artsliteracy/grade-5-elaliteracy
http://teacher.depaul.edu/Reading_Passages_NONFICTION.html
http://teacher.depaul.edu/Reading_Passages_FICTION.html
http://www.mathwire.com/problemsolving/probs.html#gr56
Math
Literacy
http://math.wiki.cvsd.k12.pa.us/Open-Ended+Questions
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/187117#anchor
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/187117#anchor

11. Click Here For An Example
Voki creates talking avatars by typing your text, phoning it in, or using a
microphone.
Voki is free but there is also a paid CLASSROOM Voki account.
Students can make Vokis in any subject area.
Math – create and share word problems, how they solved a problem, famous
mathematician, using math in the real world examples
Literacy – great for retelling stories, retelling part of a book from the view of a
character, proofreading, fluency
Science/SS – There are historical figure Vokis, have them retell a part of history
Explain a science concept, tell what you know about a topic
Teacher – put on website, introduce a lesson, morning or afternoon
announcements http://macconnell.wikispaces.com/
http://voki.com/
Voki