Literacy Components: Technology Integration

7: Comprehension

1: Phonemic Awareness

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/

Comprehension occurs when students connect new information to what they already know and when think actively about what they are reading, applying the variety of reading skills and strategies they have to gain a clearer understanding of the text. The following link leads to interactive reading comprehension assessment activities.

http://pbskids.org/island/preview/gamepreview.html?btl-wordmorph

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words. An example of how beginning readers show us they have phonemic awareness is combining or blending the separate sounds of a word to say the word. Words are made up of different sounds, and putting those sounds together to make a word is called blending. Blend different sounds like "wr" and "ap" together to make a new word of their two sounds, like "wrap." The following game is an example of a blending activity.

6: Writing

http://www.funenglishgames.com/writinggames/letters.html

Writing is a fundamental skills parallel to reading that will be required of a students both in school and beyond. There are many types of writings, such as descriptive writing, persuasive writing, informative writing, narrative writing, and creative or fiction writing. The following link leads to an interactive activity that helps students learn how to write a letter.

Literacy Components:

2:Phonics

5: Spelling

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Spelling
• Writing
• Comprehension

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-initial-sound-game-1.html

Phonics is a form of instruction used to cultivate the understanding and use of the alphabetic principle, that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes. The following is an activity that helps children practice sounding out words, which will help them develop into better readers.

http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/subject/spelling-games/

Being a good speller usually means a child will be a good reader as good spellers understand words are made up of separate speech sounds and that letters represent those sounds. Therefore, its important for students to be given opportunities to practice spelling and its always more motivating and engaging when practice is done via gaming and technology. The following link leads to a series of spelling games.

3: Fluency

4: Vocabulary

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

http://pbskids.org/martha/stories/truestories/

Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. The following is a link to an assortment of reading activities which can be used for the DIBELS ORF (DORF), which assesses the student's ability to read connected text fluently and with accuracy.

Ensuring that students have a rich and well-developed vocabulary is important for students to be able to read fluently and comprehend the text as well. Aside from pre-teaching vocabulary, it is also important for students to constantly read and be given many opportunities to discover new words that will enrich their vocabulary. The following is a series of stories that highlight new words and provide more practice in an engaging way.