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Shared Reading Goes High-Tech. Using Interactive White Boards to Teach Early Literacy Skills. What is Shared Reading?. A powerful technique that teaches Reading Skills Strategies Concepts of Print Sight Word Vocabulary Targeted for beginning and emergent readers. Purpose.
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Shared Reading Goes High-Tech Using Interactive White Boards to Teach Early Literacy Skills
What is Shared Reading? • A powerful technique that teaches • Reading Skills • Strategies • Concepts of Print • Sight Word Vocabulary • Targeted for beginning and emergent readers
Purpose Simulate the reading experiences of young children when read to by a parent in a classroom setting
Practice • Teacher and students read a text together multiple times • Focus on enjoyment • Reading success • Fluency • Focus on print
Specific Strategies and Skills • Phonemic awareness • Phonics • Context Clues • Punctuation • Grammar
Requirements • “Low Tech” Method • Enlarged Text • Big Books • Poster Boards • Sentence Strips
Tools • Pocket Charts • Highlighter tape • Velcro Strips • Pointers • Fly Swatters
High Tech Solutions Interactive White Boards • Easily create enlarged texts • Text manipulation activities
Enlarging Texts • Word Documents • PowerPoint Slides • Online Resources
Projection Options SMART board Notebook • Allows students to manipulate text. • Sight word vocabulary • Phonics skills • Reading strategies
Five Examples of IWB’s in Shared Reading • Ordering • Creating new words • Masking words • Dragging to match • Highlighting
Ordering How I wonder what you are Twinkle, twinkle little star Like a diamond in the sky Twinkle, twinkle little star Up above the world so high
Creating New Words Twinkle, twinkle little star ar f c b t j
Masking Words Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are
Dragging to Match Star World Diamond Sky
Highlighting Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky
What the Research Says… • Increases student motivation and engagement • 16 percentile point gain on student achievement • Professional development focused on mastery
Conclusion • Using an Interactive Whiteboard for shared reading activities • Engages students • Captures attention • Maintains concentration • Motivates new learning