Bk Report Gr1Ð3 Tutorial

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Book Report Grades 1–3 TutorialNote: This tutorial requires that you have installed IntelliPics Studio 3. Authoring featuresnecessary to complete this tutorial are not available when using IntelliPics Studio 3 Player.Copyright 2003, IntelliTools, Inc.Copyright Notice© 2003, IntelliTools, Inc. All rights reserved. The distribution and sale of this software and manual are authorized forthe original purchaser only. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of federal copyright law. Images that appear inClassroom Suite may not be used in any commercial application without the prior consent of IntelliTools, Inc.Trademarks and AcknowledgmentsIntelliTools (and logo), IntelliKeys, IntelliMathics, IntelliPics, IntelliTalk (and logo), Overlay Maker (and logo),SwitchIt!, and ClickIt! are registered trademarks of IntelliTools, Inc. All other IntelliTools product names and logosare trademarks of IntelliTools, Inc. Other companies’ brand names, product names (including Windows, Macintosh,QuickTime, and Adobe Reader), and logos mentioned herein are registered trademarks, trademarks, or brandnames of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged.CreditsClassroom Suite was produced through the collaborative efforts of many staff members at IntelliTools, including(alphabetically): Kacey Arnold, Jeremy Bolan, Ann Brundige, Virginia Burt, Ben Cushman, Beth Davis, Erik Eisen,Suzanne Feit, Chris Finley, Linda Finley, Dale Goetsch, Michelle Graham, Sean Hamilton, Paula ...

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Book Report Grades 1–3

Tutorial

Copyright 2003, IntelliTools, Inc.

Note

: This tutorial requires that you have installed

IntelliPics Studio 3

. Authoring features

necessary to complete this tutorial are not available when using

IntelliPics Studio 3 Player

.

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

Copyright Notice

© 2003, IntelliTools, Inc. All rights reserved. The distribution and sale of this software and manual are authorized for

the original purchaser only. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of federal copyright law. Images that appear in

Classroom Suite may not be used in any commercial application without the prior consent of IntelliTools, Inc.

Trademarks and Acknowledgments

IntelliTools (and logo), IntelliKeys, IntelliMathics, IntelliPics, IntelliTalk (and logo), Overlay Maker (and logo),

SwitchIt!, and ClickIt! are registered trademarks of IntelliTools, Inc. All other IntelliTools product names and logos

are trademarks of IntelliTools, Inc. Other companies’ brand names, product names (including Windows, Macintosh,

QuickTime, and Adobe Reader), and logos mentioned herein are registered trademarks, trademarks, or brand

names of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged.

Credits

Classroom Suite

was produced through the collaborative efforts of many staff members at IntelliTools, including

(alphabetically): Kacey Arnold, Jeremy Bolan, Ann Brundige, Virginia Burt, Ben Cushman, Beth Davis, Erik Eisen,

Suzanne Feit, Chris Finley, Linda Finley, Dale Goetsch, Michelle Graham, Sean Hamilton, Paula Irons, Bobbi Keene,

Arjan Khalsa, Patty Kilroy, Jez Lickter, Dave Magliocco, Kathie Maltby, Ed Murphy, Philip Nittenberg, Ann Olsen,

Meida Pang, Aakash Patel, Kathleen Post, Jennifer Ray, Lucinda Ray, Alan Rhody, David Robertshaw, Fred Ross-

Perry, Chris Santeramo, Scott Schafer, Lisa Sheean, Karen Sheehan, Michelle Shelfer, Caroline Van Howe, John Van

Straalen, Byron Wilkes, Mary Ann Zapalac.

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Instant Activity Kits

Classroom Suite

includes 30 instant-activity kits. Each

kit includes an Activity ready for students to use, a

Template ready for teachers to create additional similar

activities quickly, and a PDF file of this tutorial.

Book Report Grades 1–3

The Book Report Grades 1–3 instant-activity kit

includes the Book Report Hatchet activity, the Book

Report Grades 1–3 Template, and a PDF file of this

tutorial. You can find these components by opening the

Language Arts Templates folder and then the Book

Report folder in the New area of

Classroom Suite

.

The Book Report Grades 1–3 Template is designed for

you to prepare an activity focused on one of three

available stories (

Charlotte’s Web

, by E. B. White,

Little

Red Riding Hood

, and

Three Billy Goats Gruff

). In

addition, you can import your own pictures and create a

similar report form for a story of your choice.

In this tutorial, you will start by exploring the Book

Report Hatchet activity. Later in the tutorial, you will

learn to create customized book report activities, using

the Book Report Grades 1–3 Template.

Universal Design

The activities you create using the Book Report Grades

1–3 Template and

Classroom Suite

are designed for all

students, including those with physical or cognitive

disabilities.

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

1

Introduction

Create a Folder for Your New

Activities

When you use this template, you will be creating new

activities for your students to use. To organize these

activities, you will want to create your own folder in the

Activities area of

Classroom Suite.

1. At the Navigation Page, click the Activities button.

Click the New Folder button on the right side of

the screen. A dialog box will ask you to name the

folder. Give it the name of one of your classes

(e.g., Mrs. Smith’s Class).

2. Open the Book Report Grades 1–3 Template (see

page 3).

3. When you complete your work with the template

and click the Finish Activity button, the Save As

Activity dialog appears. Name your new activity,

select the folder in which you want to place your

work, and click OK. Your new activity will now be

available for you to assign to students.

This tutorial requires that you have installed

IntelliPics Studio 3

. Authoring features

necessary to complete this tutorial are not available

when using the

IntelliPics Studio 3 Player

.

Note

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

2

Part 1: Exploring the Book Report Hatchet Activity

Students use this activity to report on reading and

study of a specific text,

Hatchet

, by Gary Paulsen. The

activity can be used as the focus for a class discussion,

as a book report, or as a presentation.

Opening Book Report Hatchet

1. Sign in to

Classroom Suite

as a Teacher (see

Getting Started in the

Classroom Suite

binder). The

Navigation Screen displays.

2. Click the New button, if it is not already selected.

Open the Language Arts Templates folder.

3. Open the Book Report folder and choose Book

Report Hatchet.

Exploring Book Report Hatchet

Book Report Hatchet opens with an animation of a

plane flying over a mountain scene. Editing toolbars

display at the top of the page. At the right, a toolbar

provides images that relate to the story.

1. Click the arrow in the center of the picture. The

menu page that displays links to pages about

various story elements.

This is a nonlinear report. Select pages in any

order and return to the menu page to choose

another topic.

2. Click the Setting button. The Setting page displays,

with three text boxes containing discussion points.

Click the answer fields in the text boxes to write

about the topic.

No answers have been specified for the answer

fields in Book Report Hatchet. However, all

student responses entered in answer fields will be

recorded and printed if you generate a student

report.

3. Click the map of Canada, in the toolbar to the right

of the page. The map appears on the page behind

the text boxes. While it is still selected, click twice

on the Make Bigger button in the Transform

toolbar. The image now fills the page.

The Transform toolbar is only active when a

picture is selected. Click the text box. The

Transform toolbar turns gray (not active).

4. Click the picture of the open book, at the top right

corner of the page, to return to the menu page.

Note

Note

Note

Adding a Keyboard to the Screen

1.

Click the Show Letters button. A keyboard displays

at the bottom of the screen.

Pressing the 1..2..3 button will change the

keyboard to a number pad. Pressing A..B..C will

return it to a keyboard.

2. Click the Hide Letters button to hide the keyboard.

Using Spell Check and Word Prediction

Book Report Hatchet helps develop writing fluency by

providing students with tools to assist them, such as

Spell Check and word prediction.

1. Return to the Setting page by clicking the Book

button and then the Setting button.

2. Complete the sentence in box two by typing

the

wilderness of Canada.

Remove the “d” from

wilderness, so it is misspelled.

3. Click the Spell Check button. Select the option that

is correct.

4. Click the Word Prediction button. Begin typing in

the next answer field:

the airplane crashes in

the woods

. Notice that a toolbar of suggested

words displays at the bottom of the page. Click any

word on this toolbar to enter it into your text.

5. Click the Word Prediction button again to close it.

Recording Sound

If you have a microphone connected to your computer,

you can add sounds to each page of the book report.

1. Select a page to which you would like to add a

sound. Click the Add Sound button.

2. A Record Sound dialog box opens for the page you

have chosen. Record a sound of your own, or click

the Import button to add a sound you have saved in

another location.

3. Close this activity without saving it.

Once students have completed their book reports, they

can save their work and click the Slide Show button to

view their story as a slide show. You can use this Book

Report activity immediately with students.

In the next part of this tutorial, you will use the Book

Report Grades 1–3 Template to create additional book

report activities for your primary grade students.

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

3

Part 1: Exploring the Book Report Hatchet Activity

Note

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

4

The Book Report Grades 1–3 Template is designed to

help you to create book report activities suitable for

primary grade students. This template provides

resources for

Charlotte’s Web

,

Little Red Riding Hood

,

and

Three Billy Goats Gruff

. You can easily add

resources for other books your students are reading.

Opening the Book Report Template

1. From the Navigation Screen, click the New button.

2. Open the Language Arts Templates folder.

3. Open the Book Report folder and choose the Book

Report Gr1–3 Template. The Book Report Gr1–3

Template displays.

4. See the instructions on page 1 of this tutorial to

learn how to create a special folder to store the new

activities you make with this and other templates in

Classroom Suite

.

5. From the File menu, select Save As Activity. Save

your activity as

Report Red Riding Hood

. It will

now be saved into the Activities folder.

Editing the Book Title

1. The Book Report Template has a toolbar with

authoring instructions at the top to help you create

your activity.

2. Click the Little Red Riding Hood button at the right

edge of the screen. Eight buttons with pictures

from Little Red Riding Hood display at the bottom

of the screen.

3. Click the green Start Over button to see the other

choices. Click Little Red Riding Hood again to

continue with this tutorial.

4. Select the word Title and type in the title of your

story, Red Riding Hood.

5. Hold down the Control key and simultaneously

click the text box (

[Ctrl]+click

).

6. The Properties of Text Box dialog box displays.

Click the check box next to Read-Only Text, so that

the story title cannot be changed.

If you want your students to name their own

stories, skip steps 5 and 6.

In the next section of the tutorial, you will learn to

customize the questions provided in the report

template.

Part 2: Using the Book Report Grades 1–3 Template

Note

5

Customizing Questions

1. Click the blue arrow to move to page 2, the menu

page.

2. The menu page includes five buttons: Characters,

Setting, Plot, Illustration, and Recommendation.

Each button links to a page where students write

about that topic.

3. Click the Characters button. The Characters page

displays. Text boxes ask students to provide

information about the characters in the book they

have read.

4. Click the text box. Notice it reads aloud. Answer

fields provide space for students to add their own

text.

5. To edit the text in any text box,

[Ctrl]+click

the

text box. The Properties of Text Box dialog box

displays.

6. Deselect (remove the check mark) from Read-Only

Text and click OK to close the dialog box.

7. Edit any of the text in that text box, to ask the

questions you want the students to answer.

8. When you have finished editing the text,

[Ctrl]+click

the text box and place a check mark

next to Read-Only Text. Now the new text will read

aloud.

9. Click the book button at the top right corner of the

page to return to the menu page. Continue

modifying questions on each page, if you like.

In the next section of the tutorial, you will learn to

specify answers, if you wish to do so.

Part 2: Using the Book Report Grades 1–3 Template

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

Specifying Answers

1. To specify a certain answer to any of your

questions, place the cursor in the middle of the

answer field and

[Ctrl]+click

. The Properties of

Answer Field dialog box displays.

2. Follow the on-screen instructions to enter your

expected answer and specify the criteria for

determining correctness. Click the yellow Help

button for more details.

3. Click OK to close the Properties of Answer Field

dialog box.

All responses entered in answer fields will be

printed on student reports, even if you do not

specify correct answers.

When you generate a report for a student, using

the Reports feature of

Classroom Suite

, you will

have an opportunity to specify scoring options. Since

much of the text students will enter in a book report

will not have specific correct and incorrect answers,

you may wish to choose the Do Not Score option. You

may also wish to remove the check from Treat Answers

Left Blank As Wrong.

Finishing the Activity

1. When you have finished modifying questions and

adding answers, click the purple Finish Activity

button to save your work and make the activity

ready for your students.

2. When prompted, replace the previous version of

your book report by clicking the Replace button.

3. Finish Activity will remove all the extra toolbars

and make sure your work is saved as an Activity.

Congratulations! You have just completed a Book

Report activity for Little Red Riding Hood. You can

assign this to your students whenever you are ready.

In the next section of the tutorial, you will learn how to

use the My Book button to create a book report for any

book you like.

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

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Part 3: Using the Book Report Grades 1–3 Template

Note

Note

You can create a Book Report Activity for any book

you like using the My Book toolbar. Select pictures

from the

Classroom Suite

Picture Library or use your

own photos or pictures as part of a Book Report

activity.

Creating a Custom Book Button

1. Open the Book Report Template (see page 4).

2. From the File menu, select Save As Activity. Save

your activity using a distinctive name, such as

Book Report Tortoise Hare.

3.

[Ctrl]+click

the My Book button at the bottom of

the toolbar of book titles at the right of the page.

The Button Properties dialog box displays.

4. Change the name of the Button from My Book to

Tortoise and the Hare. Click OK.

Adding Pictures

1. Click the new Tortoise and the Hare button. A

toolbar of eight blue Picture buttons display at the

bottom of the page.

2.

[Ctrl]+click

the first blue Picture button. The

Button Properties dialog box displays.

3. Click the Insert Picture From Library button. The

Picture Library dialog box displays.

4. From the Category drop down list, select the

Animals category and choose Tortoise. Click the

Insert button.

5. In the Button Name text box, replace the word

Picture with

Tortoise

. Click OK.

6. Repeat steps 2–5, placing pictures and names on

each of the Picture toolbar buttons (other

suggested pictures: Rabbit(fast), Rabbit 2,

Backgrounds category: Park).

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

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Part 3: Customizing the Book Report Grades 1–3 Template

Adding Your Own Pictures

You may have photos or scanned images that you

want to provide for a specific book report. You can use

these pictures, rather than pictures from the Picture

Library.

1.

[Ctrl]+click

the first blue Picture button. The

Button Properties dialog box displays.

2. Click the Insert Picture From File button.

3. Navigate to a picture you wish to use that you

may have stored elsewhere on your computer, or

on another CD.

4. When you locate the picture you want, select it

and click OK. It will insert in the toolbar.

5. In the Button Name text box, replace the word

Picture with a name for the picture you have

added. Click OK to close the dialog box.

6. Repeat steps 1–5, placing pictures and names on

each of the Picture toolbar buttons.

Customizing Title and Questions

Proceed with the instructions on pages 4–6 of this

tutorial to customize the title page, modify questions,

and, if desired, specify answers for the new book

report.

Finishing the Activity

1. When you have finished modifying questions and

adding answers, click the purple Finish Activity

button to save your work and make the activity

ready for your students.

2. When prompted, replace the previous version of

your book report by clicking the Replace button.

3. Finish Activity will remove all the extra toolbars

and make sure your work is saved as an Activity.

Congratulations! You have just created a customized

book report. You can assign this activity to your

students whenever you are ready.

Use the process you have learned in this tutorial to

create a variety of book report activities for your

students.

Book Report Grades 1–3 Tutorial

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Part 3: Customizing the Book Report Grades 1–3 Template