For our reading lesson, we read "Maui and the Giant Fish."

The task was for students to pinpoint the most important parts of the story and then translate just those key elements into an emoji sequence.

Extended plan here

Reflection

I think that the lesson went well. It would have been good to have had some time at the end to share our emoji stories with each other. It would have also been good to have a range of texts we were using to translate into emoji stories instead of all doing the same one.

Things to note

If I were to do this again I would make it a collaborative activity where they each retell different parts of the story to see if it stills flows.