Technology Integration Strategies for English and Language Arts

Technology Integration Strategies for English and Language Arts

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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 Word Fluency and Vocabulary Development

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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 practice in matching letters and sounds

online practice in matching words and meanings

online tools to engage students in vocabulary learning

Support for Writing Instruction

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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.

strategies for preparing to write (pre writing)

Strategies to encourage writing

using word processing to produce written drafts

modeling to support revising and editing written drafts

providing feedback with grammar

providing feedback with spell-check

providing feedback with thesaurus features

providing feedback on student writing with editing tools

digital publishing of student work

Support for Comprehension and Literacy Development

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It's important that children develop a strong comprehension for literacy. Through technology their strides in comprehension can be enhanced.

Using digital text to encourage engaged reading

Supported reading with software and portable assistive devices

Digital story telling

Offers motivating environment for practice and motivating environment to engage students with word use

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Benefits

provides envrionments for modeling editing process and offers more editing flexibility

Helps students organize their thoughts prior to writing

gives students an authentic purpose, audience for their written works

offers more flexibility to revise while writing

provides environmnets for modeling supporting good writing

provides supportive environment for demonstrating revision needs

provides visual, immediate support and feedback during revisions of drafts

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Benfits

devices and software read words aloud to students: especially helps struggling students

engages students with language: supports digital literacy

allows more flexibility to interact with Text: scaffolds emerging in reading skills