Language Arts and Technology

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Language Arts and Technology

• Kaytlynne Conover
• Elementary Education
• Montana State University

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The Five Building Blocks of a Comprehensive
Reading Program

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Vocabulary
• Reading Comprehension
• Reading Fluency

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Phonemic Awareness

• must be taught before the other four building
  blocks.
• is the oral skill that students learn. (Letter
  Sounds)

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Technology Activities that Encourage Phonemic
Awareness Development

• Match Rhyming Words a teacher makes a template
  on a drawing program and students draw a line to
  the words that match.
• Rhyming Poetry students start by brainstorming
  words that rhyme then write a poem. Once the
  poem is written, students word process the poem
  and use either bold or italic style to highlight
  rhyming words.
• Students should also use the spell-checker.

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Learning the Letters

• This is a website that students could use when
  beginning to learn the sounds each letter makes.
  http//www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?
  f

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Phonics

• Students learn the sound symbol relationship.
• Students blend the sounds together to begin to
  make words.
• Students learn words and then learn the sound
  that each letter or combination of letters make.

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Activities with Phonics

• Recognition of Beginning Sounds In this
  activity, students are given 6 letter boxes. They
  find pictures or stamps in the program to put
  into the boxes that start with those letters.
• Recognition of Beginning Sounds Matching
  Students match the letter to the beginning sound
  in the picture.
• Alphabet Book Each student is given a letter
  then finds as many pictures as he/she can that
  start with that sound.
• Syllable Recognition Students are given a
  template and they type the word in the box that
  has that number of syllables.

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Learning the Alphabet Symbols

• Click on the following website to see a movie
  that could be shown to students explaining how
  the alphabet got its order.
• http//www.starfall.com/n/skills/alphabet/load.htm
  ?f

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Vocabulary

• Students are learning new words based on root
  words, suffixes and prefixes.
• This may happen with word walls or many other
  activities in the school.
• Students learn what the word is along with the
  meaning of the word.

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Teaching Vocabulary with Technology

• Synonyms Using a word processor, students are
  given sentences and they use the thesaurus to
  find words that are synonyms and replace the
  italicized words.
• Antonyms Students are given a list of antonyms
  on the computer and they draw a line connecting
  the antonyms.
• Homophones Using a drawing program, students
  are given a pair of homophones and they must make
  two pictures depicting the different meanings.

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Word Play

• An activity where students click on the word to
  have the word demonstrate the meaning.
• http//pbskids.org/lions/games/
• A game that teaches synonyms-- better for the
  older levels.
• http//www.scholastic.com/wordgirl/synonym_toast.h
  tm

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Comprehension

• happens when students read text and the level of
  understanding is measured.
• Some students must be taught how to make sure
  they are comprehending what is being read.

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Activities the Encourage Comprehension

• Students read a story---then play a game or
  answer questions at the end.
• The following website has many examples of
  stories.
• http//pbskids.org/lions/stories/

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Fluency

• The goal of fluency is to read with rapid word
  recognition and comprehension.
• Fluency also includes expression and knowing
  where and how long to pause when reading.

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Other Aspects of Language Arts
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Parts of Speech

• Often students will be learning the eight parts
  of speech noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb,
  verb, conjunction, interjection, preposition.

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Activities for Parts of Speech

• Spelling Check students are given a list of
  words that they type into a spreadsheet.
  Students will use the spell check to make sure
  words are spelled correctly, then they categorize
  each of the words into what type of speech each
  is. Students then make a graph.
• Nouns Students are given a noun and they find
  the definition. Then, using a paint program, they
  find or create a picture that represents the
  noun. On the page, students also create a
  sentence using the noun correctly.

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Parts of Speech

• Verbs each student is given a worksheet. He/she
  must highlight the word that is a verb in the
  list. Then they must construct a sentence using
  that verb.
• Adjective Students are given a worksheet with a
  picture and several words that are printed in
  boxes. Students must use the paint bucket to
  fill in boxes that are adjectives.

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Teaching Parts of Speech with Games

• Teaches the difference between the types of
  nouns.
• http//www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/
  index.html
• Grammar games
• http//www.gamequarium.com/partsofspeech.html

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Writing Ideas

• Story Starters Students are given one or two
  sentences on a card. They type the sentences and
  continue writing/creating a story.
• Tall Tales Students are given a tall tale
  topic. They write a story then draw a picture to
  exaggerate the story.

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Word Play Comic Strip

• Students can create a comic strip and words to go
  with it. This may be a way to get students
  interested in writing, if they are not.
• http//www.scholastic.com/goosebumpsgraphix/makeyo
  urown/index.htm

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Great Websites for Language Arts

• http//pbskids.org/lions/
• http//starfall.com
• http//scholastic.com