Julia Steiny reports on a BestPractice from The International Charter School, a dual language, elementarypublic school of choice, located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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Third grade teachers developed aproject that links the students’ language and culture with photography,storytelling and presentation. The skill and artistry of a professionalphotographer who teaches the eight and nine year-olds to compose photos is adefinite plus. On the big night students explain their personal projects tovisitors.
To complete their project each onehas imagined an idea that will tell others about his/her culture, photographedthe idea and written about it in two languages. The use of two differentlanguages, not translations of one another, point out the differences incommunication of the two cultures.
What fun! See the entire article athttp://www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/julia-steiny-a-social-studies-project-lets-us-peek-through-windows-into-3rd-grade-lives/
