Language Arts

[Jared OLeary]

How could you integrate coding with language arts? What BootUp projects (platform and lesson number) integrate well with this subject area? What additional ideas, resources, projects, etc. might assist with this kind of integration?

See this studio for some ideas.

• This topic was modified 10 months, 4 weeks ago by Jared OLeary.

[Jared OLeary]

Previous responses:

• Here are some ScratchEd resources on language arts that might be useful.
• Joshua a teacher in Ogden, Utah had this idea for ScratchJr Project 2 “Can’t Stop Dancing: “Sequencing applies to literacy because just like in a story, there is a particular order that is followed in coding. We start with the first block and make our way to the last block, just like we start with the first chapter/sentence/paragraph etc. and go to the last.”
• Here’s an example mad lib project I created in Scratch
• Here’s a random story challenge I created in Scratch
• This website has some resources on integrating computational thinking into ELA. Note, many of these resources are for older kids.
• This resource from Ignite My Future in School provides curriculum connections between computational thinking and ELA
• You could use the dialogue one and put some punctuation in the speech bubbles. It would be a good way to use quotation marks.
• I changed project #1 “Animate Your Name” project to “Animate a Character Name”. The students pick a fictional character from a chapter book they are reading (school appropriate, only please). They animate the name in a way that would reflect character traits. Backgrounds, sounds, looks, and any added sprites all had to reflect parts of the character or events in the book. They were encouraged to pick elements and traits that would not be as obvious to reflect that they had read the book. The students have enjoyed trying to see who can come up with the most obscure detail of Harry Potter and put it in there project to stump their classmates.
• The randomizer would be great for having students write stories with a given, theme, setting, problem, etc.

[Janet Chenoweth]

A great way to integrate the Animated Card project with Language Arts is to make a card for a character in a book. The gift should be something that that character could have used to help them with the conflict in the book. You could even add more than one gift.

[Maria Simmelink]

We read a lot of fiction stories about farm animals, and also work on story elements quite a bit at the beginning of the year. Students could use the farm yard lesson to create their own story. The setting would be the farm, they would choose farm characters as sprites, and then the have to have a problem and (hopefully) solution in their story (depending on the timing during the school year, it could be as simple as a pig in the mud or a horse getting out of the pasture, etc)

[Christina Senac]

Students could create a scene and then write a story about what they have created after.

Students could also recreate a story that they have listened to.

[Troy Davidson]

For ELA, you could have students sequence a story using Scratch.

[Brenda Bass]

Great idea. You could also have students draw what they think the character looks like.

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