Technology Used: wordle.net
Assignment: Prior to reading the book, students were given the following instructions:
As we go through the book, write down examples of personification. Also, think about what the author's purpose might have been in writing this book.
After reading, the students were to type their personification examples into wordle.net to make a collage.
NCSCOS Objectives:
-2.03 Read a variety of texts, such as:
fiction (tall tales, myths).
-2.04 Identify elements of fiction and nonfiction and support by referencing the text to determine the:
effectiveness of figurative language (e.g., personification, flashback).
-2.10 Identify strategies used by a speaker or writer to inform, entertain, or influence an audience.
-4.10 Use technology as a tool to enhance and/or publish a product.
My Observations:
On this final day of working with the boys, they could hardly wait to get started! Instead of asking if we were going to use technology, the first thing that they asked me was what book we were going to read. This question made me so happy because it showed me that the students did care about the reading and not just the technology. Before we got started reading, I asked the students if they knew what personification was, and they did, so they gave me some examples. After talking about this for a bit, I gave them the following instructions:
As we go through the book, write down examples of personification. Also, think about what the author's purpose might have been in writing this book.
As I began reading, I noticed that all of the boys seemed extremely engaged and they automatically began writing down personification examples from the book. Every time I read a sentence with the personification, they got really excited and said "There's another one!" After reading, we had a really good conversation about what the author's purpose might have been, and about the examples that they had written down. It was clear to me that the boys were so much more excited and engaged about the books than they were to begin with.
I then gave them their technology task of typing their personification examples into wordle.net to make a collage. All three of them went to work immediately and didn't look up from the computer until their work was complete. In just three short weeks of working with the students, I could tell that their motivation for reading had increased so much, and it was all done by letting them use technology.
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