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Integrating Technology Resources
Into Your Comprehensive Literacy Curriculum
Integration
Ideas for Kindergarten
Teachers
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 and Writing |
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Unit Integration Ideas
Rebus Rhymes |
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Trade Books
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Use listening skills to build background and familiarity with nursery rhymes as modeled by teacher; revisit texts to share orally with partners or silently |
Computer Software
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Use listening skills and background knowledge about familiar nursery rhymes to lead characters back to their corresponding rhymes |
Productivity Tool
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Use stamping tools and drawing or text tools to create a rebus sentence or poem with a partner / small group |
Internet Web Sites
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Revisit rebus rhymes with partners (printed out or online) after they are used as teaching models on chart paper; Print out and cut text and pictures up for children to reassemble; view and listen to interactive rhymes online |
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Riddles |
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Trade Books
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Share out loud with children, modeling good intonation and differences between questions and statements in clues. Encourage predicting and verifying and point out repetitive patterns of this in the story. |
Computer Software
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Listen to a series of clues presented orally and then select the correct object that answers the riddle. |
Productivity Tool
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Fill in a template designed for small groups of students to create a riddle on one page (help typing in) and an animated second page that reveals the answer with a drawing and a student's voice reading the text after an interesting transition. Discuss pattern of predicting and verifying. |
Internet Web Sites
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Solve easy riddles that match animals to their footprints; share online riddles and knock-knock jokes with students by modeling reading out loud; listen to animal sounds to repeat book's pattern of predicting and verifying; |
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Rainforest |
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Trade Books
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Share all stories out loud with students and discuss. Encourage students to choose one to read in small groups or with a partner. Encourage use of picture clues and point out repetition of easy sight words. (do, too, she, and, this, is, a, it) Students should try to follow with finger and encourage use of initial letters for decoding strategies. Make a word wall of animals that live in the rainforest. |
Computer Software
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Explore behaviors of rainforest animals, locate animals in certain rainforests, use index (reads-aloud to children) to search for particular animals and hear / read facts about them; learn scientific names of animals; print out information |
Productivity Tool
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Capture images and sounds of rainforest animals using Internet sources, software or scanning or drawing. Fill in a template textbox to create one page of a multimedia slide show. Record voice reading text and combine into a class slide show. |
Internet Web Sites
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Access close up photographs of rainforest animals; listen to video and sound clips captured from the jungle; review an online ABC book and print out picture to color; see a slide show created by students (use as model for own slide show); visit Enchanted Learning's Zoom Rainforests Unit to expand study with age-appropriate information to share out loud. |
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Alphabet Books |
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Trade Books
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Share out loud with students. Discuss highlighted letter and large letter on each page. Discuss alliteration. Point out sight words (with, on, in, under, at, for) and encourage use of pictures to aid decoding. Encourage students to revisit the book with a partner. Locate large and small letter on each page. Explore the humor of Dr. Suess's ABC and of Everything to Spend the Night. |
Computer Software
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Internet Web Sites
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Share and discuss these online alphabet books and use as models of an ABC class book you could make using Kid Pix Studio. Learn more about dinosaurs, how to pronouse words in Swahili, and objects that begin with each letter of the alphabet too. There are many, many alphabet books online (check out this huge list of online alphabet activities) |
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Shapes and Patterns |
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Trade Books
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Share out loud with students. Discuss shape names and identify rhyming words in text. Locate shapes in illustrations and in environment. Encourage students to revisit the book with a partner to locate shapes and "quiz" each other on shape names. |
Computer Software
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Productivity Tool
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Internet Web Sites
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Follow directions to create drawings using simple shapes; read about identifying characteristics of shapes (or share out loud) for a guessing game; practice watching / repoducing how shapes are drawn; print out color sheets with shapes around us; expand on pattern theme by locating repeating non-geometric shapes in photographs of nature |
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Animal Habitats |
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Trade Books
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Share out loud with students. Introduce "habitats" and predict first. Discuss other habitats and animals living within each. Encourage students to use illustrations and initial letters to decode animal names. Discuss forming plurals of each animal. Leave time for students to revisit the book to share out loud with a partner. |
Computer Software
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Locate different animals inside their homes in different seasons; learn about animal behaviors and learn how to pronouse names correctly; sort animals based on type, habitat, or characteristic |
Productivity Tool
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Use textbox template in either program to create slide show about animals in a certain habitat. Use Kid Pix Studio's drawing tools to draw animals and habitat; use PowerPoint to import photographs or animals from Internet or scanner; Use repetitive text patterns to learn new sight words; Use Inspiration to create sorting activity of animals and habitats. |
Internet Web Sites
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Explore a variety of habitats and learn more about the animals that live within each. Play a game to guess which animals live in which habitats. Access information to download or export into slide shows or print out for coloring, reading and discussing. |
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