Lesson Plan
Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End
Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to analyze how visual or multimedia elements enhance a reader’s experience throughout fiction texts.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Post a T-chart labeled "Fiction Text" on one column and "Visual/Media Elements" in the second column. Fold the chart so that only the "Fiction Text" portion shows.
- Have your students turn and tell a neighbor about two or more books, videos, or movies that have strong visual or multimedia features (including pictures or illustrations, an odd physical form, vivid language, or directions for the audience). Listen in as they share with a partner.
- Call your class to attention and have students share a title they shared or heard with the whole class. As they do, note comments in fiction section of the T-chart, with the associated visual elements in the "Visual/Media Elements" column.
- Explain to your students that this is an example of how they’ll show how observant readers note visual elements in fiction and their effect on the reader’s experience throughout a text.