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Technology Tools to Help Improve Literacy

Technology Tools to Help Improve Literacy. Stacey Walsh Technology Integration Specialist Crawford Central School District. Let’s Get to Know Each Other…. Who is in the audience? Poll Everywhere How this presentation came about….

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Technology Tools to Help Improve Literacy

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  1. Technology Tools to Help Improve Literacy Stacey Walsh Technology Integration Specialist Crawford Central School District

  2. Let’s Get to Know Each Other…. • Who is in the audience? • Poll Everywhere • How this presentation came about…. • Former CFF Coach, now a Technology Integration Specialist with Crawford Central School District • In-service follow up

  3. What is Literacy? • Various forms of literacy • Digital literacy • Media literacy • Information literacy • Computer literacy • Global literacy • Cultural literacy • Financial literacy • Literacy for the purpose of this presentation:

  4. Startling Facts • When the State of Arizona projects how many prison beds it will need, it factors in the number of kids who read well in fourth grade.  • It is estimated that more than $2 billion is spent each year on students who repeat a grade because they have reading problems.  • Sixty percent of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems.  • It is estimated that the cost of illiteracy to business and the taxpayer is $20 billion per year. 

  5. The Path to Literacy Comprehension Vocabulary Prior Knowledge Fluency Phonics/Phonemic Awareness

  6. Phonics & Phonemic Awareness • Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds—phonemes—in spoken words. • This ability is a strong indicator of reading and spelling success. • Activities to improve phonemic awareness: • Identify and categorize sounds • Blend sounds to form words • Delete or add sounds to form new words • Substitute sounds to make new words • Example: changing /h/ to /b/ to /m/ to form hat, bat, mat

  7. Decoding at its best... “Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingshuinervtisy, it deosn'tmttaer in wahtoredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olnyiprmoetnttihng is tahtfrist and lsatltteer is at the rghitpclae. The rset can be a toatlmses and you can sitllraed it wouthitporbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raederveylteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.” Source: Unknown. Please also read the LearnThatWord blog regarding this experiment. Taken from http://www.learnthat.org/pages/view/literacy_facts.html

  8. Fluency • Fluency is the ability to read text easily, steadily, and with expression. • This is the bridge between phonemic awareness and comprehension, because readers do not have to decode words and can focus on meaning.

  9. Prior Knowledge • It is important to learn what your students know before they acquire new information. • Prior knowledge can provide a framework to make connections to reading material. Will students know the vocabulary? Will they be able to visualize the content?

  10. Vocabulary • Vocabulary are the words that we need to know in order to communicate effectively. • The larger a child’s vocabulary, generally he/she will be a better reader. • Vocabulary should be taught both directly (introduce new words before a reading selection or studying roots/suffixes/prefixes) and indirectly (general approach where students are exposed to lots of words and read a lot). • Depth of vocabulary is a significant factor in comprehension.

  11. Comprehension • A process that leads to understanding and remembering what was read. • To be able to comprehend, students need to be able to decode what they have read and make connections to what they already know (prior knowledge). • Readers who have strong comprehension skills are able to draw conclusions, which leads to higher-order thinking.

  12. Writing • The ability to write effectively is also part of the “literacy” definition.

  13. Web Tools • Jog the Web

  14. Sources • “Define:Literacy”. Retrieved February 6, 2012 from Google. Web site: https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aliteracy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&surl=1&safe=active • Reading, Literacy & Education Statistics. (2012). Retrieved February 6, 2012 from The Literacy Company. Web site: http://www.readfaster.com/education_stats.asp#literacystatistics • http://www.begintoread.com/articles/phonemic-awareness.html • http://www.education.com/reference/article/prior-knowledge-reading-comprehension/ • http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/early-literacy-building-vocabulary-build-literacy • http://www.keystoliteracy.com/reading-comprehension/reading-comprehension-instruction.htm

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