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Connecticut Reading Assoc. Conference Literacy - Legacy for a Lifetime October 27, 2000 Presenter: Julie Coiro,
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Responding to Texts:
This idea web outlines the main points of the first portion of the presentation. The outline speaks to the issues of
A New Concept of Literacy in a Multimedia Electronic World
What does the process of pairing literature with technology look
like?
Four Thematic Examples
- Emergent Literacy: Building Patterns, Solving Problems (Grades K-1)
- Going Batty with Fiction and Non-Fiction (Developing Readers, Grades 2-3)
- Linking People with Talking Walls (Independent Readers, Grades 4-8)
- Inspirational Activities with Textbooks: Plains Indians (Independent Readers: Grade 6-8)
Emergent Literacy: Building Patterns, Solving Problems (Grades K-1)LITERATURE:Connecticut Literacy Standards
- There's a Square: A Book About Shapes, by Mary Serfozo
- Shape Space, by Cathryn Falwell
- If You Look Around You, by Fulvio Testa
Rationale For Technology Integration
- Locate, explore & create patterns with shapes & text
- Solve pattern problems by finishing pattern sentence
- Explore & respond to literature in individual and creative ways
- Interpret text by using prior knowledge and experiences
Software / Internet Resources
- "efficient" exploration with open-ended graphic tools
- manipulation of shapes in new environments
- transfer of skills to new contexts
- opportunities for shared writing with word processing tool
1. Kid Pix Studio:2. Millie's Math House: Use shapes to build a Mouse House by matching shapes
- 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
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
- Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon
- Bats, by Gail Gibbons
- Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats, by Ann Earle
Rationale For Technology Integration
- Reflect on the text to make judgements about its meaning and quality
- Analyze text (fiction / non-fiction) and task and plan strategies for comprehension
- Identify and use main ideas and supporting details in informational texts
- Engage in process of generating ideas, drafting, revising, publishing and presenting
Software / Internet Resources
- Multimedia CD-ROM increases appreciation of literature and background knowledge
- Webquests build higher level thinking skills and assists in teacher planning
- Increased exposure to writings of other students and through telecommunications
- Access to rich images and information at a range of reading levels
- Stellaluna, Broderbund
- Kid Pix Studio / HyperStudio
- Word Processor / Netscape Composer (if publish online)
- Did you Know? Informational texts about bats written by second graders
- Bats, Bats Everywhere: Find out lots of facts about bats, organized into helpful categories, and accompanied by bat games, quizzes, and a virtual tour of a bat cave
- Science Activities Bats: Creatures in the Night: Teachers can learn first hand from this thematic unit designed for second graders, complete with six center activities and student evaluation questions for each center
- Stella's Page: A wonderful example of a collaborative telecommucation project with second grade classrooms participating from around the country
- Bats Trackstar: Teacher created links to bats resources. This site uses the Trackstar tool to help teachers easily create websites that link students to pre-selected Internet resources
- Stellaluna: a reading guide for parents and/or teachers to the book Stellaluna designed by Familyeducation.com
- Easy Book on Bats: an online book about Bats written for developing readers; links to books about other topics at a variety of different reading levels
- The Bat Poet Page: follow the links at the top to read bat poems written by many elementary school students
- Everything about Bats for a Thematic Unit: A very extensive topical resource for teachers
- SCORE Bat Webquest: California teachers designed this extensive webquest which revolves around the book Stellaluna
- Ed Tech Project Bat Webquest: another excellent webquest for second graders with beautiful bat images and readable information
Linking People with Talking Walls: Grades 4-8
Edmark Software and Kids Domain Software ReviewLITERATURE: 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
- Interpret the text by using prior knowledge and experiences
- Make inferences about ideas implicit in narrative & expository texts
- Gather, select, organize and analyze information from primary and secondary sources
- Demonstrate an under-standing that literature represents, recreates, & shapes human experience
Software / Internet Resources
- Access to online interactive curriculum based projects
- Opportunities to practice and apply information literacy skills (gathering, sorting, evaluating, sharing) for authentic purposes
- New formats motivate students to respond with original creations
- Fosters student sharing of responses online to provide a learning source for others
- Word processor
- Multimedia authoring tool (HyperStudio, PowerPoint)
- HTML authoring tool (Netscape Composer)
- Talking Walls IBM Website links to all walls mentioned in both books and "Odyssey" projects for students to complete at each link. Access a listing of English / Language Arts Standards reinforced with these programs
- Create a compilation of websites about Walls like these sixth graders did for research
- Access a lesson plan for Teaching Steps to Tolerance using these books
- Explore the Talking Walls Art Exhibit by Anne Sibley O'Brien, illustrator of Talking Walls
- Interact with an example of a true extension of this book in an online virtual school museum entitled "Talking Walls"
- Visit another interpretation of Talking Walls through photography in South Korea at The Dive
- Here's another example of extending this idea from fifth graders in Cape Elizaebeth, Maine. This is a great place for research for other students.
- Purchase the Spanish translation for these books online
Inspirational Activities with Textbooks:
Native Americans of the West: Plains Indians: Grade 7 and 8Non-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 usedConnecticut Literacy Standards
Rationale For Technology Integration
- Use a variety of strategies to develop an extensive vocabulary
- Use variety of monitoring and self-correcting methods (skimming, scanning, re-reading, summarizing)
- Use texts to explore ideas and decisions, as well as political and social issues
Software / Internet Resources
- Actively explore relationships between words, concepts and ideas
- Visual imagery enhances comprehension of concepts
- Fosters revision and better understanding of relationships as new learning is assimilated with old learning
- Provides easy transition to formal writing tasks
- Promotes application of higher-level thinking skills
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.
- Access tons of information at this huge hotlist of links to Plains Indians. Especially good are the Cherokee Indians link to poetry and the Seven Indian Leaders, complete with photos and a short biography.
- Read a personal description of life on the plains for the Sioux before and after the Europeans moved west from Mt. Rushmore. This is part of an awesome American History and Geography website called Tracks.
- Very readable Native American Legends and Lore page with accompanying music and images
- There are lots of websites written by other students
- Plains Indians Culture website created by third graders
- Read third grade reports about Native American Indian Tribes, and more third grade reports from Ms. Cuff's class
- Students can actually read segments of the Knife River Indian Village Teacher's Guide; includes links to visual images for enhancing vocabulary development of chapter terms
- Try out software about Native Americans with Ancient Lands by Microsoft
- Use quia and QuizLab to create online quizzes using this information; better yet, have students create the quizzes
- Increasing vocabulary with visuals and background information
- Importance of Buffalo to the Plains Indians
- Buffalo and the Plains Indians
- Bison Fun Pages include Buffalo Box, Gifts of the Buffalo and Traditional Uses of the Bison
- various ways of hunting buffalo
- description of buffalo as a food source
- common and not-so-common uses of buffalo (includes description of jerky and pemmican, which is dried, pounded buffalo meat mixed with fat and wild berries)
- Expanding the concept of travois
- Photo of horse travois that helped Indians move their camp; can be integrated into Inspiration vocab. web
- and then access a math worksheet to make connections to concept of travois; expand even further by creating a travois in your classroom! see many other visuals about a travois with some great readable text and even a large black and white photograph; read about the origins of a travois and travois racing
- Expanding the concept of tipi
- information about Tipis and other Native American housing types
- virtual tour of a tipi
- Expanding the concept of Sun Dance
- Learn more about the The Last Kiowa Sun Dance
- learn about its origin and view photos from the Sioux religion
- find out the meaning of the symbols in a Sun Dance
- read one Indian's personal account of the Sun Dance
- a very readable summary of a Sun Dance with hypertext links to vocabulary (this is part of a great Luxton Museum 20 module unit designed with text passages, comprehension quizzes and suggested activities)
- access an incredible Thinkquest designed by students with a portion about Sun Dances
- read about a similar Sun Dance from a Canadian Indian Tribe with a link to related activities
- view a piece of great visual art entitled Preparing for the Sundance,
- another account of Sun Dance from the Hidatsa Tribe in Montana (small groups read different versions; report back to class what they learned),
- great visual photos and music and readable text about summary of Sun Dance
- Expanding the concept of jerky
- jerky: Jackson Hole Buffalo Meat
- all different kinds of jerky
- make your own beef jerky
- a little history on jerky
- a boy scout troop's tried and true recipe for Jerky
- pemmican as income source for Metis Nation
- find out the difference between pemmican and jerky
- another a tasty recipe for pemmican and jerky