RAINBOW MAGIC
So I finally got my rainbow project funded by Donor's Choose. My students read leveled books about rainbows an also researched online with EPIC. If you have never tried EPIC I would encourage you to do so. You can choose video books, videos, books read to kids, among other options. I did not use this for my newcomers because they don't have the vocabulary to jump this far ahead in reading. My intermediate students went onto EPIC, did the research, took notes, and compiled their findings into multiple paragraph reports. I think they did a pretty good job. Some of the lower intermediates did facts on paper strips and attached them to cloud shapes. Here's the result:
