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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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Reading Fiction & Non-Fiction: Bats |
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Reading and Writing |
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Reading and Writing |
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Unit Integration Ideas
Poetry |
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Trade Books:
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Share poems out loud with students, reading first without showing picture and then while showing picture. Discuss how illustrations add to message conveyed. Encourage students to imagine shapes as you introduce new objects. Read selected shape poems from Little Dog Poems. More background for the teacher provided in this Shape Poems lesson |
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Explore and interact with poetry through visual imagry, animation and voice. Listen to model readers and practice along with them. Select a favorite poem to read out loud to the class. |
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Use drawing tools and text tools feature to create an original shape poem. Add animation if desired or record your voice reading poem. Prepare a "readable" version of the poem to share with others as well, as demonstrated in the last Internet link below. |
Internet Web Sites
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Explore various poem formats; create your own poems, publish online and exchange with other classes through telecollaborative projects; be inspired by online samples of shape poems and explore two variations on shape poems. |
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Reading Non-Fiction: Penguins |
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Trade Books
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Share stories out loud with students. Discuss non-fiction versus poetry genres. Encourage students to notice how penguin poems include facts. Call attention to how information can be gotten from photographs and their captions in non-fiction books. Encourage small groups of students to revisit books and focus on certain topical areas for further study. Learn about the differences between penguins and puffins from Bruce McMillan's book. |
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Explore animals through interactive games, videos, sounds, pictures and fact books. Complete treasure hunt activity sheet guiding exploration. |
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Use drawing tools in Kid Pix Studio or import photographs from the Internet into PowerPoint. Choose a certain topic of study about penguins with a small group of students and write a paragraph summarizing what you've learned. Be prepared to share your slide (or slide show) orally with the rest of the class. |
Internet Web Sites
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Learn lots more about penguins from websites created by students and teachers. Find out how penguins in danger in South Africa. To get an idea of what second graders can produce, check out Perfectly Puzzling Penguins |
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Reading Fiction & Non-Fiction: Bats |
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Read Stellaluna out loud with your students and encourage them to review what kinds of things they learned from bats from this fictional text. Then read Lily Wood's Bats (non-fiction easy reader) and compare the types of texts and things learned. Encourage small group exploration of the incredible photographs in the Eyes on Nature book to gather even more facts. Have students participate in some of the Internet activities below to help them compile all the facts they've learned. |
Computer Software
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Hear Stellaluna up close and interact within the setting this beautiful story. When you're done, take a bat quiz adjusted on three different levels to find out how much you've learned about bats. |
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Use drawing tools in Kid Pix Studio or import photographs from the Internet into PowerPoint. Choose a certain topic of study about bats with a small group of students and write a paragraph summarizing what you've learned. Be prepared to share your slide (or slide show) orally with the rest of the class. |
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Explore the activities in two webquests for second graders, view the results of a collaborative project about Stellaluna, get background on everything about Bats while you gather some writing / publishing ideas for students. |
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Character Study: Grace, Sheila Rae and Lilly (Author Study: Kevin Henkes) |
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Trade Books
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Share stories during Guided Reading activities and have students identify the techniques that authors use to let us know more about characters. Build a discussion around creating a list of words that describe these particular characers (bold, brave, outgoing, witty, unique, bossy, adventurous, etc). Discuss how the characters are similar and different. Encourage students to read other books by Kevin Henkes that feature characters that are brave and outgoing. |
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Explore the interactive storybook about the brave and outgoing main character named Sheila Rae. Play map games and sing along with the popular songs. |
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Internet Web Sites
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Use the Internet to provide background knowledge about author Kevin Henkes and his development of unique characters. Take time to enhance their vocabulary with a brief discussion about people and events mentioned in Amazing Grace. |
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Famous American Women in History: Harriet Tubman |
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Share the book Minty out loud with students to build background knowledge after creating a K-W-L chart. Read epilogue at end of book too. Fill in K before, W after. Guide students through A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman with purpose of answering W questions. (Use Inspiration tool to help add to K-W-L list). Share Aunt Harriet's Undergroung Railroad, Sweet Clara and the Freedaom Quiltand Follow the Drinking Gourd after to inspire further research about slaves following constellations and then preview websites below. |
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Internet Web Sites
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Explore many online interactive activities about Harriet Tubman created by second graders. Learn more about The Drinking Gourd, visually follow the journey that many slaves traveled and review information learned about the Underground Railroad. |
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Magic Tree House Series / Mysteries |
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Share The Titanic: Lost and Found out loud with students and have them revisit the book in small groups to build background knowledge and prompt discussion. Encourage discussion about the feelings of the people on board. Read Tonight on the Titanic out loud with your students or have them read it silently over the course of few days. Again, focus on the character's feelings and how it makes you feel to be trapped on the Titanic. Introduce concept of mysteries and discuss examples in this book. |
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Take a virtual tour abourd the Titanic and explore the setting of the stories first-hand. |
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Using the online account of a 12 year-old girl and Mary Pope Osborne's story as models, pretend to have survived the sinking yourself and write your own "survival" account to share with others. Base your story on facts you learned. |
Internet Web Sites
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Take a virtual tour aboard the Titanic, explore related websites, interact with author Mary Pope Osborne, and read the accounts of a 12-year old girl who survived the sinking of the Titanic. |
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Most Important Autobiographies |
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Share The Important Book out loud with students, calling attention to the text patterns in the book as well as the great use of descriptive language. |
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View some online examples of Important Books that other young children have written. Teachers can also access other ideas through this online All About Me unit. The pattern can even be extended to things other than me, like the website on mothers, objects or insects. You can expand this all about me theme to a descriptive paragraph too. |
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