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Montgomery Grade 4 Reading Project

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on July 16, 2010 at 11:05:56 am
 

Julie Rapoport - Grade 4 Teacher, Montgomery Elementary School

Robert Gervais - Technology Coordinator, Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union

 

Reading & 21st Century Literacy > Comprehension, Fluency & Keyboarding

Overview:  The goals of this project include identifying key indicators of reading comprehension, providing strategies, resources, and activities that are technology rich and directly impact achievement of grade level comprehension, and providing teachers specific instruction to aid implementation of 21st Century tools in their classrooms.

 

Tools For Students    Supporting Resources and Materials for Teachers

 

Essential Questions
How can students demonstrate reading comprehension using 21st century skills?
How can students improve reading fluency using 21st century skills?
Does improved keyboarding fluency impact student communications?

Content
A. Book Report Alternatives: author, title, characters, problem, solution, setting, creativity and innovation
B. Compare and Contrast
C. Sequence of Events
D. Character and Setting
E. Inferences

F. Fluency
G. Keyboarding
Skills
A1. Identify orally, visually or in writing the author of the book
A2. Identify orally, visually or in writing the title of the book
A3. Identify orally, visually or in writing the main characters in the book
A4. Identify orally, visually or in writing the problem of the book
A5. Identify orally, visually or in writing the solution of the book
A6. Identify orally, visually or in writing the setting of the book
A7. Demonstrate orally, visually or in writing creativity and innovation
B1. Identify in writing similarities and differences between characters in the book
B2. Identify in writing similarities and differences within settings in the book
C1. Identify orally

, visually, or in writing a sequence of events in a given book
D1. Identify in writing how the character reacts in different settings of a given book
E1.
F1. Read orally passage with appropriate speed, accuracy and expression
G1. Enter text electronically with appropriate speed and accuracy
Assessment                              back to the top
A1.-A7. Using Kidblog, Zooburst, Shelfari, Toondo, Voicethread, or Issu students will respond to a given book including title, author, main characters, problem, solution, and setting
Book Report Rubric


B.  Students will get handout with reading passage and verbal directions from teacher.  Responses to the questions will be collected via a Google form.  
e.g. Google Form
C.  Students will get handout with reading passage and verbal directions from teacher.  Responses to the questions will be collected via a Google form.  
e.g. Google Form
D.  Students will get handout with reading passage and verbal directions from teacher.  Responses to the questions will be collected via a Google form.  
e.g. Google Form
E.  Students will get handout with reading passage and verbal directions from teacher.  Responses to the questions will be collected via a Google form.  
e.g. Google Form
F.
G.  Feedback from the keyboarding program, immediate feedback

Activities/Strategies           back to the top
A1.-A7  Teacher will create student email accounts in ePals or GoogleApps classroom account. Students, with teacher guidance, setup their own accounts and login to Kidblog, Zooburst, Shelfari, Toondo, Voicethread, and Issu. Within accounts students will create alternatives to book reports. Students will have the option of creating reviews, personal representations, and summaries of books with outcomes being comic books, blogs, popup books, magazines, personal book shelf, and multimedia tours of books.

B. (compare/contrast)Google draw graphic organizer, google form, raz-kids.com
C. (sequence of events) graphic organizer timeline, google earth, google form, raz-kids.com
D. (main idea) graphic organizer, google form, raz-kids.com
E. (inferencing) graphic organizer, google form, raz-kids.com

F. In order to practice and self-assess fluency, there are several options for students to record, listen, and save audio files digitally.
Students use GarageBand (Mac) or Audacity (Windows or Mac) programs on their computers, creating mp3 files, to record, listen, and save reading passages to check fluenc

y.
Students login to Voicethread, upload the image of the book from Shelfari to begin creating a voicethread for a given book., then record, listen, and save reading passage.
Students login to their ePearl account and create a new artifact for their book; within the artifact they will use the Recorder to record, listen, and save their reading passages.
To practice fluency by listening to online books students will login to raz-kids.com account.
For practice with primary books or accommodations students would visit http://www.meegenius.com/.

G. Teacher creates keyboarding class and student accounts in http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Keyboarding_Skills/launch.html or http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ (no login necessary for Dance Mat Typing).  Students will login to site and follow onscreen directions for keyboarding lessons.  Recommended strategies for su

ccessful keyboarding practice include short lessons (10-15 minutes), self-competition (tracking progress), reinforced in multiple content areas, and interactive motivation from the instructor.

Resources

Tools for Students           back to the top

  • http://www.epals.com/ - create an account as the teacher so you can create safe, monitored email accounts for your students to use when logging into online resources
  • http://kidblog.org/home.php - Safe and simple blogger site for students
  • http://alpha.zooburst.com/ - 3D digital story telling site where students can be creative with book summaries
  • http://www.shelfari.com/ - book sharing site that allows students to summarize what they’ve read, show what they are currently reading, recommend the book to classmates, etc
  • http://www.toondoo.com/ - cartoon creation site where students create cartoon comic strip identifying characters, setting, problem, and solution (no age restriction, need email address to sign in)
  • http://docs.google.com, GoogleDocs Draw - part of the GoogleDocs suite, use drawing as a graphic organizer or timeline creator
  • http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Keyboarding_Skills/launch.html- Typing skills for students
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/- Typing skills for students
  • http://voicethread.com/#home- site that allows students to give a summary of their book they have read with voice and pictures
  • Smart Notebook timeline - using the timeline reveal students can create a sequence of events timeline
  • http://express.smarttech.com - Don’t have Smart Notebook downloaded on your computer?  Use Express to draw, paint, open, save, and interact with smart notebook files on the web, no login required
  • Garage Band - on the Mac computers only, record and listen to reading for fluency check
  • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ - Open source free software (Windows or Mac) to record and listen to reading for fluency check
  • http://docs.google.com, GoogleDocs Form - part of the GoogleDocs suite, use to respond to Inferencing assessments
  • http://enosburgk12.net/ltk/ - ePearl online portfolio, students can create an artifact, record and listen to reading for fluency check
  • http://voicethread.com - students complete a “bookreport” by adding voice and other multimedia items
  • http://www.meegenius.com/ - Meegenius bookshelf contains popular stories that can be read to children and students can personalize the stories.  Available as an ipod/ipad app.  No login required.  Primary grade levels only.
  • http://www.raz-kids.com/ - online readers, books read to students, self-directed and tracks monitored assessments
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Supporting Materials and Resources for Teachers
 

  • http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs  - Short video that explains, in plain English, what blogs are and how to begin using them
  • http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting - Short video that explains, in plain English, what Podcasts are and how to begin using them
  • Form for how to sign up for some of the tools to use with students
  • Possibly Julie’s Jing on how to create a podcast and voicthread on how to upload on to an ipod
  • http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ - Allows teachers an interactive template for creating rubrics. Includes categories and sample language for

 

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