Responding to Literature with Timeliner

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Image from Timeliner Product Info.	What does it do? TimeLiner 5.0 makes it easy to create, illustrate, and print time lines. Simply enter events and dates, and TimeLiner 5.0 organizes the events into chronological order. Print your time lines in any size to display student work and decorate your classroom.
How does this tie in with comprehension strategies in Grades 4-8? Students can read content area informational texts or literary pieces and respond in creative ways. They can product visual representations of the information gleaned while extending their understanding with related notes, photographs, sound effects and other resources. Students can practice sharing the new knowledge form they've constructed with the others by selecting the view that best depicts the message intended for their audience.
Online Resources Timeliner Online and Timeliner Challenge of the Week (also includes integration ideas like writing plan, plot organization, and group writing activities) Carol Hurst's Timeline Activity with Literature Education World Article on use of timelines 6th Grade Timeline project with important events Education World's Millenium Series (monthly explorations of important historical events) People's Century: Stories of 1900-1999	Online Examples of Timelines (not necesarily created in Timeliner) Interactive Storm Timeline from Scholastic Timeline of the Holocaust Underground Railroad from National Geographic Medieval Technology Pages Our Gold Rush Community and Timeline Food Timeline Timelines in Appleworks

Responding to Content Area Texts with Timeliner

Text: Anne Frank, The Diary of A Young Girl
Software Tool: Timeliner by Tom Synder Productions
Additional Internet Resource:

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
The Holocaust from a 5th Grade Perspective
We Remember Anne Frank from Scholastic Network

Other Ideas:
The Watson's Go to Birmingham (Timeline of Civil Rights Movement)
Immigrant Kids, by Russell Freedman (Immigration Timeline)
The Middle Ages, Westward Expansion, biographical timelines

Here's a screen shot of a portion of a timeline created in Timeliner that depicts the lifetimes of the Presidents of the United States.

Here's the same information shown in a different view.

Here's a screenshot of the options available for each entry on the timeline with the newest version, TimeLiner 5.0. The information in timelines can also include ranges of dates in history. Notice the options available in the designer box shown below; you can add notes, link the entry to a certain photograph, movie or clip art, add sound to this entry or even link directly to a website with more information on the Internet. All of this can easily be entered into this dialog box by clicking on the appropriate color tab. This information is automatically transferred to the timeline.

The slide show viewer in Timeliner allows the timeline to be viewed one entry at a time in a slide. Any accompanying visuals, sound effects or links to online resources will be displayed on this slide at the time of presentation.