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Including Technology 
inYour Students' Responses 
to Literature


Connecticut Reading Assoc. Conference
Literacy - Legacy for a Lifetime
October 27, 2000
 

Presenter: Julie Coiro, 
Literacy & Technology Specialist
 

Responding to Texts:
This idea web outlines the main points of the first portion of the presentation.  The outline speaks to the issues of
Four Thematic Examples


Emergent Literacy: Building Patterns, Solving Problems (Grades K-1)

LITERATURE: Connecticut Literacy Standards Rationale For Technology Integration Software / Internet Resources
1. Kid Pix Studio:
  • Create pattern sentences in a template file and ask students to finish the pattern.
  • Make a blank template and encourage students to create unfinished patterns; compile in a class book for classmates to solve
  • Create an entire environment using shape tools; reproduce pages and have others locate all the shapes hidden in the environment
2. Millie's Math House: Use shapes to build a Mouse House by matching shapes

3. Explore geometric shapes in Zoo Zillions and solve patterns or create a shape environment using Carnival Countdown by Edmark

4. Writing Prompt: shared writing assignment: follow text patterns in If You Look Around You to create group poems about "A line is..." or a circle is...";

5. Design an age appropriate webpage with links to the following sites:

  • learn illustrator tips on how to Draw and Color with Uncle Fred
  • use interactive book titled Draw Me Shapes to follow along and fill in own journal with partners; use correct colors, write "color/shape" beneath each entry ("blue circle") matching to the book.
  • explore Patterns in Nature: view as whole group; click on each to discuss patterns; revisit later in small groups to access again and draw a picture of favorite pattern in nature in journal.  Student can be encouraged to add text to the picture describing the pattern and labeling picture

  • Acess and print out shape color sheets with Sesame Characters; complete "further adventure" ideas at bottom of sheet
Going Batty with Fiction and Non-Fiction (Developing Readers, Grades 2-3)
LITERATURE: Literacy Standards Rationale For Technology Integration Software / Internet Resources
Linking People with Talking Walls: Grades 4-8
Edmark Software and Kids Domain Software Review
LITERATURE:  Talking Walls and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue written by Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O'Brien.

Connecticut Literacy Standards

Rationale For Technology Integration Software / Internet Resources
Inspirational Activities with Textbooks:
Native Americans of the West: Plains Indians: Grade 7 and 8
Non-Fiction Textbook: (the text for the presentation about the Plains Indians was taken from Prentice Hall's The American Nation, 4th Edition) but any textbook can be used

Connecticut Literacy Standards

Rationale For Technology Integration Software / Internet Resources
Inspiration can be used to brainstorm key words, outline the chapter, and then use as the beginning of a writing prompt.  Two templates discussed at the conference were the vocabulary concept map and the sorting of main ideas from a chapter.