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Connecting Comprehension and Technology: Adapt and Extend Toolkit Practices
When we begin our technology journey by grounding it in time tested comprehension instruction, we ensure that our use of technology is meaningful and authentic. We help students see the natural links between strategies they use in print text and the strategies they need to use when navigating the vast digital world.
-Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, Katie Muhtaris, and Kristin Ziemke Active literacy strategies matter now more than ever! Our students are growing up with dynamic information systems and constantly changing online texts. Connecting Comprehension & Technology will help you expand your students' literacy toolkit to incorporate practices that help them thrive in this digital world. Through their celebrated Comprehension Toolkit series Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis present an active literacy learning framework that grounds students in the nonfiction reading and thinking strategies they will need throughout school and into college and careers. In Connecting Comprehension and Technology Steph and Anne invite teachers to join them in Katie Muhtaris' and Kristin Ziemke's classrooms to envision and embrace technology as a powerful tool for extending these Toolkit practices and enhancing literacy instruction and innovation. Offering the know-how born from years of classroom experience and clear steps for getting started, Connecting Comprehension and Technology provides practical lessons that teach students how to navigate, evaluate, collaborate, and communicate through digital resources. Not limited to specific hardware or software, lessons are designed around technical functions; tools readily accessible to students in their world and easily adopted in your school, whether you are taking your first steps into technology or looking to leverage existing resources. Organized around Steph and Anne's active literacy learning framework, Connecting Comprehension and Technology will help you to teach your students how Monitor Comprehension Activate & Connect Ask Questions Infer & Visualize Determine Importance Summarize & Synthesize Samples Not limited to specific hardware or software, lessons are designed around technical functions; tools readily accessible to students in their world and easily adopted in your school, whether you are taking your first steps into technology or looking to leverage existing resources. The accompanying DVD provides live-from-the classroom video footage of the lessons in action and a rich sampling of student work.
-Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, Katie Muhtaris, and Kristin Ziemke Active literacy strategies matter now more than ever! Our students are growing up with dynamic information systems and constantly changing online texts. Connecting Comprehension & Technology will help you expand your students' literacy toolkit to incorporate practices that help them thrive in this digital world. Through their celebrated Comprehension Toolkit series Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis present an active literacy learning framework that grounds students in the nonfiction reading and thinking strategies they will need throughout school and into college and careers. In Connecting Comprehension and Technology Steph and Anne invite teachers to join them in Katie Muhtaris' and Kristin Ziemke's classrooms to envision and embrace technology as a powerful tool for extending these Toolkit practices and enhancing literacy instruction and innovation. Offering the know-how born from years of classroom experience and clear steps for getting started, Connecting Comprehension and Technology provides practical lessons that teach students how to navigate, evaluate, collaborate, and communicate through digital resources. Not limited to specific hardware or software, lessons are designed around technical functions; tools readily accessible to students in their world and easily adopted in your school, whether you are taking your first steps into technology or looking to leverage existing resources. Organized around Steph and Anne's active literacy learning framework, Connecting Comprehension and Technology will help you to teach your students how Monitor Comprehension Activate & Connect Ask Questions Infer & Visualize Determine Importance Summarize & Synthesize Samples Not limited to specific hardware or software, lessons are designed around technical functions; tools readily accessible to students in their world and easily adopted in your school, whether you are taking your first steps into technology or looking to leverage existing resources. The accompanying DVD provides live-from-the classroom video footage of the lessons in action and a rich sampling of student work.
280 pages, Spiral-bound
First published May 15, 2013
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August 20, 2013
It has been five years since I have read a text that enlightens me as an educator to want to try something completely new and exciting learning techniques in my classroom. This text not only has done this, but has also scared me and challenged my thinking and way of learning/working in my every day classroom. I cannot wait to attempt some, if not all of their ideas.
If you are not using technology in your classroom, you are hindering the children of today and tomorrow. This book informs the reader of not only up-to-date iPad apps, teaching ideas, websites, books, but also gives examples and anchor charts and oh so much more!
This year we will implement iPads 1:1. Although I have had one of my own for two years, this book taught me so much of what I am missing out on, an entire global world of thinkers, wonders, and curiosities that I cannot wait to bring to my classroom! I now feel ready to use this new tool with my teaching. Mind you, I am still nervous, but this book has given me a new confidence to be able to teach 21st century skills with every subject matter so that students are actively engaged in their learning.
If you are not using technology in your classroom, you are hindering the children of today and tomorrow. This book informs the reader of not only up-to-date iPad apps, teaching ideas, websites, books, but also gives examples and anchor charts and oh so much more!
This year we will implement iPads 1:1. Although I have had one of my own for two years, this book taught me so much of what I am missing out on, an entire global world of thinkers, wonders, and curiosities that I cannot wait to bring to my classroom! I now feel ready to use this new tool with my teaching. Mind you, I am still nervous, but this book has given me a new confidence to be able to teach 21st century skills with every subject matter so that students are actively engaged in their learning.
January 4, 2015
I'm a big fan of Stephanie Harvey, and I stalk @kristinziemke on twitter so I was excited to get hands on this book. I bave used used several of the lessons with various classrooms throughout the Fall semester. Though I think they could have used a School Librarian on their team. There are places where I would have embedded more information literacy instruction, and the suggested online tools didn't always impress me. In their defense, publishing any sort of professional text with "resource links" is like hitting a moving target. So Heinemann people, if you're reading this, I live northeast of Indianapolis only 3 hours away from Ziemke's school. Just saying.
February 16, 2015
Inspiring!!! Love the ideas for using tech as a mode to create and share learning. Filled with practical ideas and lots of guidance for how to.
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August 15, 2016This is an awesome book! Invaluable resource for my classroom lesson planning!
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