
For our first Keynote project, I chose to do a class project with the story "James Forten" from our anthology. One of the key problems that I have found my students struggle with in reading grade level text is making a mental picture "visualizing" what it is that they've read. So for this project I thought I would see if Keynote would help with comprehension. After presenting the background info and introducing the vocabulary for the selection, I assigned a pair of students about 3 paragraphs to read. After reading, they had to draw a picture of what they visualized as they read. Then they had to create a script summarizing their reading, describing their picture and asking and answering a fact, inference, vocabulary, and experience (FIVE question strategy) questions. After writing the scripts, they recorded them in garageband and I put it all together in Keynote.