Scrapbooking: a Family Literacy Teaching Tool - Having Fun with Family Literacy

Scrapbooking: A Family Literacy Teaching Tool - Having Fun with Family Literacy

Source: Columbus Public Schools, LVA/ABLE Family Literacy Project

Objectives:

To increase the reading, writing, and communication skills of the adult student
To help families record their own accomplishments, dreams, past, and future
To provide a creative outlet for learning the English language and/or mastering specific skills such as reading, writing, and math
To increase the use of technology as a research and learning tool

Some of the Lesson Plans for: Family Scrapbooks

Introduce the idea of a scrapbook with lots of examples and require "journaling".
Take and/or collect pictures and add them, with the journaling, to the scrapbook.
Develop a class project to further develop the ideas taught in lessons one and two.
Provide families with materials and supplies for six to eight pages.
Use the "comparing information" sheet for websites, books, and magazines.
Offer work sessions to edit writing, work on artwork, add poetry or music, etc.
Share with other class members...make a copy for student portfolios...additional explanations can be written on back of these pages.

Comparing information

Student: ______
Date: ______

1. Find three websites that have scrapbook layouts or ideas.

2. List the three websites you found to be most helpful.

Site: ______

3. Compare information. List details from each source that support the idea. Do the sources agree? Do they present different information?

First Site: ______

Second Site: ______

Third Site: ______

Lesson Plan: My New Home

Purpose

To help ESL students create a book about their environment

Materials needed

We don’t use actual scrapbooking materials for this, however, we do use the same concepts.

magazines
maps
Chamber of Commerce information
glue sticks
scissors
punches
stickers
Internet pictures
paper books

Procedure

Create small books from copy paper.

Select titles such as: home, school, hospital, grocery store.

Students cut and write and tell their own stories on these pages.

Lesson Plan:

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Resources For Scrapbooking

Books

The ABCs of Creative Lettering
Lindsay Ostrom, Zig Memory Systems, $7
available from:
EK Success
P.O. Box 6507
Carlstadt, NJ 07072

The Complete Guide To Scrapbooking
Jill Haglund and Nan Wasson
Tweety Jill Publications, December 1998, $19.95
for more information:
ISBN: 1891898000

Creative Scrapbooking
Sandi Genovese
Sterling Publishing Company, March 1999, $24.95
ISBN: 0806959134

The Idea Book For Scrapbooking
Jill Haglund
Tweety Jill Publications, June 1999, $19.95
for more information:
ISBN: 1891898027

Joy of Scrapbooking: Creating Keepsakes
Lisa Bearnson, Gayle Humphreys
Oxmoor House, Inc., September 1998, $19.95
ISBN: 0848718402

Making Great Scrapbook Pages
Fiskars--Hot Off The Press, 1998, $12.95
for more information:

Scrapbooking As A Learning Tool: A Supplement to be Used in Connection With Scrapbooking for Kids
Jill Haglund, Kristine Boshell
Tweety Jill Publications, June 1999, $7.95
for more information:
ISBN: 1891898043

Scrapbooking For Kids: Ages 1 to 100
Jill Haglund, Kristine Boshell
Tweety Jill Publications, June 1999, $19.95
for more information:
ISBN: 1891898019

Scrapbooking With Memory Makers
Michele Gerbrandt, Kerry Arquette
Levin, Hugh Lauter Associates, October 1998, $25
ISBN: 0883639289

The Simple Art of Scrapbooking
Scrapbook Guild, Kathleen Jakes
Dell Publishing Company, Inc., October 1998, $15.95
ISBN: 0440508398

Magazines

Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Magazine
P.O. Box 2119
Orem, UT 84059-2119
$4.95 per issue (6 issues a year)

Memory Makers
Satellite Press
475 West 115th Avenue #6
Denver, Co 80234
$6 per issue (6 issues a year)

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