How To Use Technology To Teach Reading
Take the Actively Learn platform for example. Click here to access the PDF of the SQ3R reading comprehension strategy.
Opportunities with repetition for students to build their reading skills through available technology tools starts by allowing students to direct their own learning and choose materials they would like to read Jeffs Castellani 2001.
How to use technology to teach reading. Non-digital text is preferable when reading comprehension is desired It is important for teachers to align the desired learning outcomes with the reading mode. The right technological tools can make a significant difference to students who struggle with reading. Use technology to enhance traditional reading experiences.
Technology can be used to enhance students. Word clouds can be used to highlight keywords and themes to prepare students for reading as well as prompt discussion after reading. Computers can provide powerful scaffolds Technology and Teaching Children to Read 5 or training wheels for childrens reading by presenting information flexibly assessing students work and responding to students.
And theyre right video games do help to teach critical thinking creativity making connections and many other skills that can contribute to and support effective reading skills. It allows you to embed questions comments and annotations into an ebooks text. Curation tools for student use.
For example we created the word cloud in Figure 1 based on an online National Geographic Kids article about the troubling disappearance of. As students glide the stylus along each word they begin to understand the idea that words begin and end and use this knowledge to. A reader must decode words know what they mean understand words when they are strung together in sentences understand the use of pronouns make connections between ideas using relationship markers create mental pictures make inferences sum up information and so forth.
The National Reading Panel identified five key components for reading instruction. New programs and reading platforms offer you quite a bit of flexibility in how you deliver teaching content to your students. Therefore educators should explicitly teach reading strategies to all students.
Even when students use technology to compensate for an area of weakness it is crucial that they be able to exercise their other reading skills in order to comprehend the text. If the goal is for students to survey key points and learn the main idea then digital text is as good as non-digital text. One of the best ways to teach technical skills is through modeling many said.
Vary the type of text to include fiction poetry and informational text. Recently Ive learned that some teachers are even using games to teach reading arguing that these interactive video games provide the same skills that students need to be able to read. Technology for Reading Learning to read is a process that is made up of many individual steps.
Teachers can show students how to use technology by using it themselves and talking out the process. Teach students how to select texts that are at the appropriate instructional or independent level depending on the fluency goal. Helping students select appropriate texts.
If the text is for repeated reading choose a text that is worth rereading. Student read what other students recommend and get excited about. While not designed just for sharing reading interests like the tools above curation tools like Pinterest Tumblr and Scoopit allow the selection and sharing of interests among students.
Touch-interactive technology can help children develop an understanding of phonemes syllables and the conventions of print such as word boundaries.
