Integrating Technology Resources
Into Your Comprehensive Literacy Curriculum
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Integrating Technology Resources
Into Your Comprehensive Literacy Curriculum
Click on any of the underlined unit topics in the right hand column below to link to some curriculum integration ideas using a variety of technology tools. Use the grey arrow buttons to link to integration ideas at other grade levels or to return to the main menu.
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Unit Integration Ideas
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Rhyming Words |
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Trade Books
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Share several of the books with students in a large group, taking time to notice the sets of rhyming words and the humor in many of the stories. Ask students to orally generate more rhyming words or create their own two line rhyming poems (especially after reading / singing Raffi's "Down by the Bay"). Create a word wall with rhyming words and notice spelling patterns. |
Computer Software
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Internet Web Sites
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Use a funny rhyming poem, writing tips and a rhyming dictionary as in inspiration to write a class poem; find out more about, Dr. Suess, "the king" of rhyming texts; explore other funny rhyming poems available online to read together or even them independently; access great rebus rhymes and all kinds of print-outs, coloring activities and teaching tips at Enchanted Learning |
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Author Unit |
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Trade Books: Mercer Mayer Series
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Teachers can share the book out loud and then students can revisit the books with partners, selecting passages to read together, identifying new vocabulary words, discussing author/illustrator craft, and comparing plots and characters |
Computer Software: Living
Books Series
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Students use listening skills to hear excellent reading models, build comprehension skills through multi-media animated revisits with the text; increase their knowledge of sight words and listening vocabulary; develop an appreciation for author's style and craft; and are exposed to the text in three languages (English, Spanish, and Japanese) |
Oral Language Idea
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Children respond in literature circles to
prompts to identify their favorite page, explain why and share that page
out loud with the rest of the class.
Use software to create a class book that uses the same text patterns from one of Mercer Mayer's books. Each student creates a page and adds to a class book to display electronically as a slide show. Print out a copy for your class library as well (and small copies for students to take home). |
Internet Web Sites
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Learn more about the author, write a letter to Little Critter, explore an art gallery, view a movie, read a story online and get inspired to read all of Mercer Mayer's Little Critter Books. |
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Wind and The Weather |
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Trade Books
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After sharing stories outloud, encourage students to read during Guided Reading activities. Ask students to use examples from the stories to help develop and share opinions about the wind. Discuss the similarities of story plots among many of the stories (the main character's belongings are swept away by the wind). There's many levels of texts here; there should be something for everyone in this list. |
Computer Software
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Learn weather terms, experiment with temperature, wind and precipitation and see how different variables affect weather. Kids can easily create cause-effect relationships about the wind. |
Productivity Tool
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After viewing lots of samples as a class and reading the descriptions of some very original kites at Catch the Wind, Jason's Kites or Hearthsong's Kite Samples, use the painting and drawing tools to create your own kite or windsock design and give it a name, small description and a price. Create a "class catalog" of wind toys. |
Internet Web Sites
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Explore hands-on weather activities, learn about saftety issues, try making an anemometer with your class to measure the wind speed, and view lots of graphics of kites (many are very amusing) and weathervanes. Encourage kids to be creative and color a picture or design their own kites or weather vane. |
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Animal Tracks |
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Trade Books
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Read In The Wood: Who's Been Here first to set the stage and build some background about animal tracks and other clues that animals leave behind. Take some time studying the Field Guide photographs. Discuss how footprints are made and what they can tell us. Encourage students to read Monster Tracks during Guided Reading groups in the context of this discussion. Share I Took a Walk with students out loud first, encouraging them to locate some of the animals in the pictures and talk about how many animals are hidden from our view, until we take a closer look. Encourage students to revisit the book in small groups to locate animals and perhaps read the easier sections of text. |
Computer Software
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Who Made This Track? Activity Count toes, consider behavior and habitat, and examine shape, pattern and size as you learn about animals. |
Productivity Tool
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Create your own interactive quiz using information you found about animal tracks and their owners. Post it online and share with parents at home. See a related sample at Uncas Elementary's unit with Jan Brett's The Mitten. |
Internet Web Sites
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Play animal tracks matching games, learn how to cast a track; Extend your study by tracking wild animals through untames African habitats (teaching activities included), explore animals found on California's North Coast or learn about the process of tracking animals from an expert. |
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Using Your Imagination |
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Trade Books
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Share the stories out loud with students and encourage small groups to read some of them independently as well. Guide children's discussions about the main characters and how their imagination helps them. Study the illustrations in the stories and have children discuss how they add to the storyline. Have children try and identify which main character they would most like to be and tell why. |
Computer Software
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Internet Web Sites
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Create your own monster and exchange with other students, learn about recycling materials using your imagination, build your own monster online, listen to one class' unique version of What If?, play skills games with monster characters and George, and meet Toby, a very imaginative dog and his owner Gilbert. |
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Houses Around the World |
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Trade Books
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Share the stories outloud with students first, calling attention to the different types of homes that people live in. Talk about why people build houses and encourage discussion about the difference between a house and a home. Encourage students to make a list of the different kinds of homes they know about. |
Computer Software
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Internet Web Sites
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Download, print out and build an entire town of buildings, learn more about energy efficient homes, collect data about homes in your area and exchange with other students worldwide, or explore online activities about homes and learn about homes through time. Learn more about the life and times of Syd Hoff's Stanley by visting come real caves and seeing cave paintings. |
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Integration Ideas for First Grade Teachers