Ideas from Peers

I have to laugh as I am writing this blog post because I was talking to several people about how it is almost impossible to use technology in a Guided Reading lesson, and then low and behold, one of the girls in my group used technology in her Guided Reading lesson. I couldn't believe it! I learned that it could actually be done! :-) She used a Power Point Presentation to teach the students about quotation marks and how to read/say the words in between the quotation marks.

The second thing that I was very impressed by was a digital story board. One of the girls in my group used technology over the course of several weeks to have the students create a digital story board. The interesting thing that I learned from this was the fact that the students would read their part and record it and then she would play it back to them. When the students heard themselves they said, "Is that what I really sound like, Do I really slur my words together like that?" Once they were aware of how they sounded when they read they wanted to record it again. Every time after that the students were very concerned about reading with fluency and accuracy. So, such a project can help improve fluency!