Reading and Writing with Technology K-12

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REAL: Relevant Engaging Authentic Learning The following activities explore literature-technology connections.
Activity 1	Technology-Enhanced Reading Explore technology-enhanced reading opportunities. Go to Teacher Tap: Electronic Books and Online Reading and explore online reading opportunities. Try: I Can Read Also, check out Guys Read edited by Jon Scieszka. How is technology changing the nature of reading? Create a chart comparing screen-based with paper-based reading environments.

Activity 2	Technology Tools for Writing How is technology changing the nature and process of writing? Trace your personal history related to the tools of writing. How have your tools and thinking changed over time? Create a timeline using a timeline maker tool such as ReadWriteThink Timeline Maker. Explore other ReadWriteThink tools. Explore online writing tools: Tate Museum - Imaginary City Scholastic Writing with Writers Magnet Poetry, Stories, & Mad Libs: Writing Fun On The Web Read You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You by Mary Ann Hoberman. Explore Microsoft Word features: √ Comments √ Audio √ Text Colors Picture History

Activity 3	Online Learning Environments Explore online learning environments. Shakespeare: Subject to Change Virtual Ecosphere Learner.org Exhibits ThinkPort Field Trips Teacher Tap: Interactive Websites How do the reading, writing, and thinking skills of students impact their success in an online learning environment? How do multimedia features address learning styles and contribute to learner success? Analyze a learning environment and discuss the key issues.

Activity 4	Active Questioning What's the heart of ... (your curriculum)? -- Is history always biased? Does art reflect culture or shape it? What are the reoccurring themes? -- What makes a great book great? What questions raise other questions? -- In nature, do only the strong survive? Why? Choose an online magazine or news source. Scholastic News - Here Come the Frogs! (Listen & Read) - Insect World Records (Listen & Read) - Growing Up Gater (Listen & Read) - Meet Mr. President (Listen & Read) - Welcome Back, Bald Eagles! (Listen & Read) Yahooligans News BBC Newsround CNN Student News Newseum Teacher Tap: News Select an essential question. Create an activity at asks students to identify, categorize, compare, predict. Use a Read Write Think Tool. Example: A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly & An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser: NY Cases, Historic Letters Example: Ease History Example: ARKive Example: 10x10 Example: Nature, Organisms Lesson Go to REAL: Relevant, Engaging, Authentic Learning for more detail and examples.

Activity 5	Evolving Assignments Explore online study and essay services: SparkNotes Debatabase 4freeessays Explore quality lesson sites: Marcopolo National Geographic Xpeditions Lessons ReadWriteThink Lessons Edsitement Discovery Lessons Learn NC PBS Teacher Source Teacher Tap: Lesson Plans The Gateway - Search Tool for Lesson Plans Go to United Streaming. Download a video. Develop an activity that requires students to transform or apply the information found in the video. How has easy access to information changed assignments?

Activity 6	Habits of Mind What questions cross disciplines? -- What roles and perspectives can you identify? What would you do? Evidence -- How is this like and unlike real life? How do we know about what actually happened? Viewpoint -- Whose perspective does this represent? Connections & Patterns -- How is this related to other people, places, events, and times? Supposition -- How might things have been different? What if? Relevance -- Why is this important? Who cares? Know Thyself -- What does it mean to me? Reading Activity Read the short story called The Last Spin by Evan Hunter. Connect the short story to the Habits of Mind questions above. Explore the related WebQuest. Writing Activity Develop a writing activity focusing on mystery or investigation. For example, write an accurate crime story using vocabulary from the CSI website.

Activity 7	Primary Sources Integrate technology into authentic reading and writing experiences. Incorporate authentic, nonfiction, online primary sources reading materials. Escrapbooking.com - Autobiography, Personal Accounts, & Travel Narratives - Data and Statistics - Diaries and Journals - Artifacts - Virtual Digital Collections The Diary of Louise Hancock The American Experience: Influenza 1918

Activity 8	Find the Flow 42explore: Debate Debate Comics Brown vs Topeka Board of Education Explore PowerPoint Starters. Ask students to delete, categorize, arrange, order, or tell a story. Use the photos for number problems, letters of the alphabet, numbers of wheels. Hide correct answer, word, letter, or number below picture. Repurpose other projects: Telling Stories - (PowerPoint Starter ) Dog and Cat stories - (PowerPoint Starter ) Letter or number boards (PowerPoint Starter ) Match letters and picture (PowerPoint Starter ) Match words and pictures (PowerPoint Starter) Match color words to pictures (PowerPoint Starter) Make word ladders (PowerPoint Starter ) Categorize (PowerPoint Starter) Weather categorize (PowerPoint Starter) Occupations (PowerPoint Starter) I Know An Old Lady (PowerPoint Starter) Healthy habits (PowerPoint Starter) Weather starters (PowerPoint Starter) What should I wear? (PowerPoint Starter)

Activity 9	Reading Level Issues Explore websites that provide leveled materials: EPA Naturescape Choose a specific page or pages for students to read. Design a motivating task or problem to solve based on the reading material. Use Microsoft Word to check reading levels. Copy text from the website into Word. Use the spell checker. If the readability doesn't show, check the options in Grammar.

Activity 10	Reading and Writing Resources Teacher Tap: Content-Rich Websites - English & Language Arts Fun with Interactive Resources BBC Spellits BBC Literacy Ages 4-11 , 11-16 , 16+ Between the Lions Language Arts Games Book Adventure Fun Brain Language Arts Grammar Games Kids Read Wicked Literacy Activities Issues in Technology Integration Information Literacy Copyright Citing Sources Plagiarism Search Strategies Search Tools Professional Development Learner.org Artifacts and Fiction: High School Conversations in Literature (6-12) Developing Writers: A Workshop for High School Teachers Engaging with Literature (3-5) In Search of the Novel (6-12) Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers Teaching Reading: K2 Thinkport Reading Tools

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