Activity

Storytime Startup

Grades 3-5
Subjects: Career Connected Learning, English Language Arts, Personal Wellness, Visual Arts

Overview

Entrepreneurs are problem-solvers who identify needs, challenges, or opportunities and create solutions. In this lesson, learners explore how a local author recognized a need, created engaging books for young readers, and founded a publishing company to share those stories with others. Inspired by the author’s journey as a creator and innovator, learners become authors themselves by creating an original character, planning a story, and writing a fictional narrative.  

Learners discover how creativity and storytelling can be used to communicate ideas, connect with others, and make a positive impact. 

NB Curricular Connections

English Language Arts:  

  • Strand: Interactions - Big Idea: Exchanges – Skill Descriptor: Respond personally to presentations, oral stories, and multi-modal text.  
  • Strand: Representations – Big Idea – Composition – Skill Descriptor: Organize ideas and create written and media texts collaboratively and independently. 
  • Strand: Reading – Big Ideas: Reading Comprehension – Skill Descriptor: Connect and respond personally and critically to text. 
Personal Wellness:  

  • Strand: Career Connected Learning – Big Idea: Thinking about potential career pathways. Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate an informed vision for the future linked to own interests, preferences, values, and abilities. 
Visual Arts: 

  • Strand: Create – Big Idea: Exploration and Process – Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of art and principles of design to develop skills, language, techniques, and processes. 
  • Strand: Communicate – Big Idea: Reflect and Respond – Skill Descriptor: Reflect on and respond to artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works. 

 

What you’ll need

  • Recording of Author presentation 
  • Character Creator Organizer 
  • Graphic Organizers 
  • Writing Templates (optional) 

Instructions

Please see the attached documents for the activity instructions.

Reflection Activity 

Please see the attached PDF for several choices on how you and your learners can reflect on today’s activity.

Downloads 

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