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Name: Sherita Brown-Mims’ Resource Review
The most appealing aspect of RWT is the quality of the resources. I am impressed and pleased that the interactive are linked to lessons/activities and they are all aligned with the state standards. Having the standards makes it easier to include the interactive activities in a pre-existing lesson of your own.
I would get most use of the interactive activities through use of the Smart Board as a means of introduction and whole group practice. The same interactive activities can later be used by individuals, pairs, or small groups and independent activities.
Lesson #1: Word Wizards: Students Making Words
This lesson incorporates technology by use of computer, online tools, and possibly an interactive white board. The lesson can be effective both with and without the use of the technology. Teachers must always prepare for the worst. Two featured resources are http://pbskids.org/lions/games/soup.html Between the Lions: Alphabet Soup and http://readwritethink.org/materials/wordwizard/ Between the Lions: Alphabet Soup. Both resources provide extra practice with word building.
The lessons purpose is to show children how to recognize patterns in words and build new words from existing words.
As our school is an “Ensuring Literacy for All” school and we must adhere to the Storytown program, I would use this lesson during my 30 minutes of Language Arts time. This lesson will be used with my DIBELS benchmark students to enhance their skills. The lesson will be first introduced using the interactive as a whole group; I would then divide my students into 2 groups. These groups will rotate from the interactive group on the Smart Board to the hands-on manipulatives group that is the teacher group. The teacher group will use letter tiles, and alphabet shaped food such as Alpha Bits Cereal and Alphabet Cheez-Its.
Lesson #2: Using Children’s Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
This lesson incorporates technology by the use of the “Flip Book” application at the finish of the lesson as a means of publishing the student work.
This lesson aims to teach students how to write descriptively. Students will expand their descriptions of objects.
I would create a flip book as a sample to show my class of the possibilities. I will keep student flip books to serve this purpose in the future. Once students create their product on paper, Students will be guided to input the approved work into the Flip Book application.
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