Week 9-Keystone Draft

After speaking to ELA teachers who I work with it sounds like they see the use of technology as a way to motivate their students to write and share their writing. Mrs. Muller is the co-head of an afterschool program that is geared to teaching Israeli children English. Most of these children have one 45 minute session per week that is meant to equip with proper reading and writing ability. Often times these children need extra motivation to complete extensive assignments since the work in this program in on top of their regular school program. Therefore Mrs. Muller tries to integrate technology in as many ways as possible to motivate the children to practice their writing and reading skills. Mrs. Muller finds this to be a bit challenging since the parent body of these students does not support the use of the internet. After discussing this for a bit we brainstormed on some ideas of how to integrate technology into the classroom in a safe and user friendly way. We thought to improve the student's reading skills to record their voices of them reading a book so that they can share the recording with family and friends. In addition, to motivate the children to practice writing, students can write scripts for videos to record, for digital comics, electronic magazines, etc. Mrs. Muller emphasized that in addition to using technology as a motivational tool, students need to feel that they are reading and writing for a purpose. When these students are given an audience, the quality of their working increases tremendously.

Draft Lesson:
Objective: Students will learn the "ea" rule.

Procedure: The teacher will introduce the rule of "ea" through describing its sound and mentioning examples of words with ea-seat, meat, heat, beat, neat, wheat, etc. Students will then copy these words into their notebooks. Students will then be asked to create a story using as many of the words on the list as possible. Students will then record these stories on to a voice recorder to share with their families and classmates. Students are going to be told to be mindful of their audience's reactions since they will have to write up an article about it for the class' powerpoint presentation.