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Oh Say can you seed trade book trailer

Oh Say can you seed trade book trailer 

Creating a trade book trailer was extremely interesting and very informative. By creating my owntrade book trailer to use as a mini-lesson for my unit plan I learned how beneficial they could be to both a child's literacy and science education. The research paper Beyond the talking groundhogs: Trends in science trade books written by Kristen T. Rearden and Amy D. Broemmel  states "That children assigned to a classroom using a literature-based program integrated into literacy and science instruction scored significantly better on all literacy measures and on two of three science measuresthan either the literature only group or the control group." Using a trade book is an amazing way to integrate two subjects into each other a trade book trailer can be used as an interdictory lesson to a much more challenging scientific concept. I kept this idea in mind when I was choosing a book for my book trailer. I had already taught a fourth grade class a direct and inquiry lesson about plant classification  and overall, the class had a hard time grasping this concept. So I thought "how can I make this topic easier to understand. And at this point in the semester, Dr. Smirnova had started talking about trade book trailers and how they could help. For my trade book trailer I chose the book Oh say can you seed written by Bonnie Worth I choose this book because I thought students might understand plant classification more if they had background knowledge of plants. But before creating the trade book trailer for my trade book I had a few things to do One was to create a book talk about my trade book which contained a lot of background information including the publisher, the year it was made and so much more. We also had to choose the program we would use to create our book trailers on. The main programs I experimented with included Animoto, Screen-O-Matic and Voice thread. I had a lot of fun getting used to working with all of these programs. I loved Animoto but it was missing one key thing which was the ability to record audio. When using audio in a book trailer it can cause your students to pay more attention then if it was just music playing in the background. I find that if there is no audio in a book trailer then children have a tendency to get easily distracted. Animate having no audio caused me to move on to the next program Screen-O-Matic but that program had its faults too. With Screen - O- Matic it has the audio component but you have to screenshot what you want to record and that can get very tiring after a few attempts. After this setback, I moved on to voice thread and I have one thing to say. I love this program it is very easy to use and I will definitely use this in my future classroom.  Voice thread had allowed me to create multiple audio files. And If I messed ups at some point I wouldn't need to start from scratch. I also found that voice thread allows you to draw on your trailer in order to draw your student's full attention to a certain point in the trailer. 


Here is the link to my trade book 




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