After TIE Lesson

Take a look at the lesson that I included the voice threads in, this will give you a better look of what the students learned and how it was taught.

The comparing and contrasting lesson went wonderfully. The students really seemed to be getting the concepts of comparing and contrasting. After reading two different versions of the gingerbread man story and comparing and contrasting the two stories, I had students create their own gingerbread man stories. The students were very excited about doing this and got very creative. After the students wrote their stories they drew a picture to illustrate what they had written. I had always planned for the students to use voice threads for this lesson, but it was hard to find the time to do them.

Today I finally found the time for the students to complete their voice threads. This activity was more of an extension from the previous lesson. The students will always continue to learn and review concepts of comparing and contrasting and this was a great way for students to continue to practice by comparing and contrasting two stories. I had divided the students into pairs, in these pairs students were to first discuss their stories with one another and coming up with a comparison and a contrast of their stories. One student was to say a comparison and the other student was to say a contrast.

To have the students complete their voice threads, I pulled two students at a time and took them to the computer lab. I was able to take them to the computer lab because it was their day to use it. I found that this worked very well, it was quiet and the students were able to talk to one another and record their sentences with no problems. The students really seemed to enjoy doing this and had fun doing it as well. Not all of the second grade students have used voice threads before so it was new to them but they seemed to understand what they were to do and got the hang of it very quickly. I did notice that some of the students were a little more hesitant to talk in the speaker than others. I had told the students that it was just for fun and only the class was going to watch it, once they heard this they felt a little more comfortable.

I also noticed that some of the students felt more comfortable when they wrote their sentence out on a piece of paper and then read what they had written.

I really liked doing the voice threads with the students and felt that they learned a lot by doing this and got a great review on comparing and contrasting. One thing that I was not able to do but had planned to was the color codes, the students did not seem to understand how it worked and the colors would not stay the way we wanted them. They kept changing every time we would go to the next slide. I stopped doing it after the first two groups. I am new to the voice threads as well so I was learning right along with the students.

Take a look at the 2nd graders gingerbread man stories.

TIE lesson

Second grade TIE lesson plan - Language Arts: comparing and contrasting

TIE lesson plan update

I have decided to change a few things about my technology lesson. I will still have the students create voicethreads but instead of just reading their stories that they have created. I will be paring the students up, on the slide show their illustrations of their stories will be side to side. They will be comparing and contrasting their stories. They will be using key words that we talked about during the lesson such as; like, alike, same, different. similar, unlike. They will be comparing and contrasting either the characters, setting, plot, and problem between their two stories. Each story element is color coded they will chose the particular color depending on the story element that want to compare or contrast. This will give students more practice with comparing and contrasting.

T.I.E Lesson Plan

For my lesson I am planning on incorporating the use of voice threads. I am teaching 2nd grade and they will be learning about comparing and contrasting. I will read to the students two different versions of the gingerbread man story. They will be comparing and contrasting the two stories throughout the lesson. Their independent practice consists of the students creating their own version of a gingerbread man story. Within the story they will make one comparison and one contrast. They will write their creative story as well as illustrate it. My plan is for the students to use voice threads to record their story. I will be taking pictures of their illustrations which will be shown while they are telling their story. By doing this it will allow students to get credited for their write by allowing others to hear their story. This will also help them with their fluency and comprehension by hearing themselves read a story.

TEKS that will be incorporated within the my lesson:

§110.13. English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 2 (6) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (B) compare different versions of the same story in traditional and contemporary folktales with respect to their characters, settings, and plot

§126.2. Technology Applications, Kindergarten-Grade 2. (2) Foundations. The student uses data input skills appropriate to the task. The student is expected to: (A) use a variety of input devices such as mouse, keyboard, disk drive, modem, voice/sound recorder, scanner, digital video, CD-ROM, or touch screen; (3) Foundations. The student complies with the laws and examines the issues regarding the use of technology in society. The student is expected to (A) follow acceptable use policies when using computers

Voice Threads

I really liked the voice thread of the young boy describing his monster. Voice Threads can be used a lot in the classroom for all subjects areas. One idea I had was the students can create a story can either be about something they have learned or just anything they want to write about. The students can be recorded as they read their story. Other student can listen to the story being read by the student who wrote it. This can be a good strategy to build student fluency. Students learn better at times when they hear themselves or their peers read or talk about something. Voices threads can also be used by teachers and incorporated in their lesson.

Google Docs

I have never used Google docs before, this was my first experience with using it. Google Docs has so many wonderful features that is very useful for both students and teachers. The students can use this to work on projects together. Google Docs allows them to make changes from any computer, which come in handy. I like the draw feature, students can practice making different things with shapes. Students can also use this feature to make different types of graphic organizers. The spread sheet tool can help teachers organize students grades as well as attendance.

HOTS integration

My Ideas:
You can have a class blog. For morning work the teacher can post a sentence that has some grammar and spelling mistakes, like D.O.L. The students can correct the sentence using the blog.
I am teaching a second grade class now and they were working on adjectives, I was thinking that the blog can be used to practice this. The students can make up sentences that describe something in the classroom using adjectives. The students can comment on each others sentences, pointing out the adjectives they used and try to guess what object they are describing in the classroom.
Blogs can also be used for students to post quick writes and than can comment on others. Students can also right a reflection about a book they just read writing what they thought about it and can recommend it to others.

I saw this blog that looked pretty neat http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337