Turning Our Predictions/Connections into Interview Questions

I believe that students deepen their learning through social interaction. We have been reading, I Am Malala as a read aloud. During the last few weeks, we have been making connections, predictions, and identifying unknown vocabulary.

This week, my students wrote connections, predictions, and identified unknown vocabulary for pages, 11-21, in I Am Malala. They then turned a connection and a prediction into two interview questions. We looked at the Making Stories with Jeff Kinney book. It is a biography in interview format. This is a great way to connect books. It is also a great resource for how to ask well-informed interview questions. Plus, all of my students love his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. (My students also noticed that in biographies and autobiographies, the author starts from childhood and then writes in a sequence, or time (chronological order) of the person's life. I LOVE AHA! MOMENTS!!

My students sent me their connections and predictions through Google classroom. I was able to provide them feedback for their questions. They used their questions to interview a friend, then created videos for their online portfolios. I have shared the process, and some of their pictures and videos below. Enjoy :)