My Read Aloud Technology Lesson

I have not had the opportunity to teach my technology lesson yet, but I will be teaching it on Friday morning right before my class goes off to lunch. I plan on introducing the comprehension strategy, just as I would right before I read a book aloud. Then, instead of reading a book aloud, I will play the Photo Story that I have prepared and have the students watch it. After the reading, we will do a post-reading activity to make sure they understood how the comprehension strategy works in the book. The Photo Story would have my voice recorded reading with expression. The comprehension strategy that my lesson will target is sequencing the events in the story. We will start off reviewing putting things in sequential order, watch the Photo Story, and then put the Photo Story in sequential order. I think that this technology will help students to have a highly visual picture in their minds in order to better remember the sequence of events.

Technology Lesson Ideas

To be honest, I have had a little bit of trouble thinking of ideas that I could use technology with the lessons which my teacher and I have planned out to teach for the rest of this month. However, as I was contemplating further on the topic today, I was thinking that using a Photo Story could make a shared reading or read aloud a lot more exciting for the kids. I think that listening and watching the story could help the students to remember it better, as well as the fact that it is something a little different so that could be way fun for them. I think that doing a Photo Story is probably my best idea that I have so far. I would prepare the students for the Photo Story just like I would to read a book, introducing them to a comprehension strategy we are working on, and then we would listen and watch the Photo Story, and then afterward, we would discuss how the comprehension strategy worked in the Photo Story. My classroom has a computer projector available so the Photo Story would definitely be a feasible idea!

Classroom Inventory

In my classroom, there isn't a whole lot of technology available to the students. The teacher has a computer at her desk which she does grades and attendance on, and there is an overhead projector, but other than that, the students do not interact with technology a whole lot. They go to the computer lab every Monday and seem to enjoy that, but there is not a whole lot of technology to evaluate. One cool thing though is that the three ELL's in the classroom are set up on a program called Imagine Learning which helps them to learn more effectively in the classroom. I thought it was pretty cool that they had access to this resource to help them to learn and to accommodate their hindrances in their learning.

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