Using the Story Exchange with Books

Using the Story Exchange with Books

In this short, self-paced course, Content-Area Teaching with the Story Exchange, you will learn how to use the Story Exchange as a tool to help you meet learning standards and increase the joy and rigor of your teaching. Math, science, English, art, drama, music, world languages, social studies, advisory – this is a planning framework for every teacher. We’ll show you how to move from:
 
big ideas in the content you teach
to a Story Exchange prompt
to a project relevant to students’ lives
You’ll leave this course with a collection of N4 resources and ideas for your own classroom. 

In this short, self-paced course, Using the Story Exchange with Books, you will learn how to use the Story Exchange to increase the joy, rigor, and relevance of your teaching of whole-class texts. 

We’ll show you how to:

  • Use the Story Exchange to connect students’ lived experience to the books you teach;
  • Create relevance by providing contemporary resources with thematic links to the books you teach;
  • Consider how to carry the ideas from students’ investigation of a whole class text into their lives.

You’ll leave this course with a collection of N4 resources and new ideas for teaching the books in your classroom library. 

Session 1: Why Center Student Learning in Their Stories?
Session 2: Before Reading, Use the Story Exchange
Session 3: Identify Important Questions and Understandings
Session 4: Contextualize Whole-Class Texts

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