Shared Reading with Technology!

On Thursday I am doing my technology lesson. I will be incorporating technology into my shared reading lesson. The students are going to be doing a choral reading of a poem from You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together. I will have the words on a PowerPoint and project the words and some of the images from the book onto the screen. I am going to have a pointer so that the students read altogether and stay reading at the same rate. Although it is helpful for all the students to be able to see the words at the same time, I felt like this was not using technology to the greatest advantage. I have linked some of the words in the poems to outside articles or images. After we read the poems, we are going to discuss them and I will have students click on the links that interest them. I've started creating the PowerPoint, and I am pretty excited about this lesson. My mentor teacher also is excited for me to teach this, and I hope the students will be engaged in the lesson and learn from it as well!

Shared Reading Idea

One idea for a technology-enhanced lesson that I might be able to do involves technology and a shared reading. I would like to create a powerpoint with slides for each page of a book. In order to incorporate the students using the technology, I would like to create a link from some of the words to either an activity or some kind of image that would help reinforce the text. This would make technology essential for the lesson and would add value to the lesson by extending the understanding of the students. I will first need my mentor teacher to give me text that she would like me to use for a shared reading, but I think that this activity would benefit the students.

Classroom Technology Inventory

The classroom technology inventory was quite informative. I found that the school has two computer labs that we can schedule and that my mentor teacher has used it before for special lessons so she could help me figure out what kind of technology would be good to use for lessons. Also, the grade has a laptop and projector that is shared between the classrooms, so I could easily use that for in my lessons. I also thought that it was interesting that the school has software that helps the students publish their writing. That will help them feel more like authors, which is really important. After seeing the technology available, I am excited about the possibilities for my lessons.

Virtual Tour Link

Here is a link to my Lincoln virtual tour!