Benfits
allows more flexibility to interact with Text: scaffolds emerging in reading skills
engages students with language: supports digital literacy
devices and software read words aloud to students: especially helps struggling students
Benefits
provides visual, immediate support and feedback during revisions of drafts
provides supportive environment for demonstrating revision needs
provides environmnets for modeling supporting good writing
offers more flexibility to revise while writing
gives students an authentic purpose, audience for their written works
Helps students organize their thoughts prior to writing
provides envrionments for modeling editing process and offers more editing flexibility
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Offers motivating environment for practice and motivating environment to engage students with word use
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Technology Integration Strategies for English and Language Arts
Technology plays a very important role in anyone learning process. It can offer a variety of different ways to learn and digest information. From this organizational chart teachers will be informed on the benefits of using technology with their students.
Support for Comprehension and Literacy Development
It's important that children develop a strong comprehension for literacy. Through technology their strides in comprehension can be enhanced.
Digital story telling
Supported reading with software and portable assistive devices
Using digital text to encourage engaged reading
Support for Writing Instruction
Writing can often be a challenge for children. To help children feel less discouraged towards writing assignments there happen to be various on line and computer apps that help encourage an exploration for writing.
digital publishing of student work
providing feedback on student writing with editing tools
providing feedback with thesaurus features
providing feedback with spell-check
providing feedback with grammar
modeling to support revising and editing written drafts
using word processing to produce written drafts
Strategies to encourage writing
strategies for preparing to write (pre writing)
Support for Word Fluency and Vocabulary Development
Expanding fluency and vocabulary is a key part in language development and writing skills for a child. Many of these online sites help children learn new vocabulary.
online tools to engage students in vocabulary learning
online practice in matching words and meanings
online practice in matching letters and sounds
