Computer Technology

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Computer Technology Early Literacy Web
Enhanced Early Literacy Instruction

• Region VII Head Start Conference
• Jeri Levesque, Ed.D. JALsails_at_aol.com
• LIFT-Missouri http//www.lift-missouri.org

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How Do You Use Computers?

• Communication
• Entertainment
• Transportation
• Utility
• Safety
• Information
• Work

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What are the connections between early literacy
and educational technologies?

• When do computers help?
• When do they hinder?

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How to Tell if You Are Looking at a Great
WebSitehttp//www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/
criteria.html

• Sites from commercial businesses usually include
  .com federal government sites end in .gov,
  K-12 school sites often include k12 in the
  address, and college and university sites often
  include .edu.
• Sites from non-profit organizations often include
  .org.
• A site with a tilde () in the address usually
  indicates that this page is maintained or created
  by an individual, rather than representing an
  organization, a business, or a school.
• Established by the first ALSC Children and
  Technology Committee, 1997

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4 Keys to Good Reading

• Understanding how ABCs work as words
• Listening to the sounds of language
• Choosing using prior knowledge to make meaning
  from print
• Reading fluently.

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Teach Brains to Read
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Brain Development and Reading

• Children develop much of their capacity for
  learning in the first three years of life, when
  their brains grow to 90 percent of their
  eventual adult weight (Karoly et al., 1998).

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Brains Read

• A childs intelligence, so long as it falls
  within a normal range, does not determine the
  ease with which the child will learn to read.
• Rather, as children grow and experience the
  world, new neural connections are made. This
  orderly and individualized process, varying from
  child to child, makes reading possible.
  http//faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

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http//www.brainconnection.com

• Given the course of brain development, it is not
  surprising that young children who are exposed to
  certain experiences usually prove to be good
  readers later.

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Parents Grow Readers

• As parents talk, sing, and read to children, the
  childrens brain cells are literally turned on
  (Shore, 1997).
• The opportunity for creating the foundation for
  reading begins in the earliest years.
  http//dana.org

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• Moreover, many pediatricians now believe that a
  child who has never held a book or listened to a
  story is not a fully healthy child (Klass, 1998).

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Developmental Milestones of Early Literacy

• http//www.reachoutandread.org/downloads/RORmilest
  ones_English.pdf

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• Just as children develop language skills long
  before being able to speak, http//www.asha.org/pu
  blic/speech/development/lang_lit.htm
• children also develops literacy skills long
  before being able to read (National Research
  Council, 1998).

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  Born to Read How to Raise a
Readerhttp//www.ala.org/alsc/raise_a_reader.html

• American Library Association
• Here is a list of some of the best with
  easy-to-do tips developed by members of the
  Association for Library Service to Children, a
  division of the American Library Association.
  This information is also available in Spanish.

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Family Resources on the Web
http//www.getreadytoread.org/images/stories/downl
oads/home_checlist_rev.pdf
http//www.famlit.org/faqs/faqreading.html
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• http//sesameworkshop.org/parents/
• http//www.nickjr.com/home/index.jhtml
• http//www.thewiggles.com.au/ca/home/

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National Reading Panel Reports

• Combination of
• Teaching Phonics, Word Sounds,plus
• Giving Feedback on Oral Reading
• is the Most Effective Way to Teach Reading

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Reading Starts with Phonemes

• Phonemic Awareness is the ability to notice,
  think about and manipulate the individual sounds
  in words and phonemes.
• Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in the
  language.
• Just 44 phonemes (speech sounds) make up all of
  the words in the English language.

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Phonological Awareness

• PA is an auditory skill. A child can have
  adequate hearing but not be able to recognize
  phonemes in context.
• Phonemes are harder to recognize in noisy
  classrooms, when they blend with other words, and
  when they occur in rapid speech.

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Why is Phonological Awareness So Important for
Reading?

• It help readers to understand that the alphabet
  relates to individual words sounds.
• It helps them notice the most common rules for
  letters representing sounds.
• It helps them make educated guesses when reading
  new words, by sounding them out.

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• The words we speak are made up of individual
  pieces of sound that are strung together so
  rapidly it's often impossible to separate them.

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Why Children Succeed or Fail in Reading

• Learning to read involves gaining the
  understanding that the letters on a page stand
  for the individual pieces of sound in speech.
• Some children will develop reading difficulties
  unless they are explicitly taught this
  relationship.
• http//www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/readbro
  .htm

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Alphabetic Principles
http//www.starfall.com/
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Seussville Universityhttp//www.seussville.com/un
iversity
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http//www.readwritethink.org/
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Literacy Engagements

• Learning Language
• Using language and other sign systems as ways of
  making meaning
• Interactive reading
• Fluency
• Process writing
• Word recognition
• Writing to learn

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Learning About Language

• Understanding how language works,
• word play,
• letter-sound relationships and spelling or
  grammar patterns,
• Comprehension
• Genre study
• Language conventions
• Vocabulary
• Word study

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Pre-K Literacy Activities

• http//www.hubbardscupboard.org/pre-kindergarten.h
  tml
• http//pbskids.org/lions/readingvideo/index.html

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Read Every Day Something New and Something True

• 100 Best Books for Children
• http//www.teachersfirst.com/100books.htm
• Parent Soup
• http//www.parentsoup.com

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http//www.bookadventure.com/

• Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation
  program for children in grades K-8.
• However, the parent who accesses this site is
  blitzed with opportunities to sign on

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TV Technology Literacy

• Some web pages are very slow to load they contain
  images and sounds.
• Children are used to rapid images and high tech
  sounds.
• Use caution - but PBS.kids.org is still better
  than an XBox.
• http//www.sesameworkshop.org

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http//PBSKIDS.org

• Arthur
• Barney
• Between the Lions
• Clifford
• Dragon Tales
• George Shrinks
• Mr. Rogers
• Reading Rainbow

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Childrens Television Workshop

• http//www.sesameworkshop.org/

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Between the Lionshttp//pbskids.org/lions
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Teacher Resources
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Academic Redshirting and Young Childrenhttp//www
.kidsource.com/education/red.shirting.html

• The term redshirting originally referred to
  postponing a college athlete's participation in
  regular season games for one year to give him an
  extra year of further growth and practice with
  the team in the hope of improving the player's
  skills for future seasons.
• Academic redshirting for young children refers to
  the practice of postponing entrance into
  kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to
  allow extra time for socioemotional,
  intellectual, or physical growth.
• This kind of redshirting is most often practiced
  in the case of children whose birthdays are so
  close to the cut-off dates that they are very
  likely to be among the youngest in their
  kindergarten class.

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Reading Rocketshttp//readingrockets.org

• Excellent Q A forum.
• First Year Teacher Tips

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Celebrating Cultural Diversity Through
Childrens Literature

• http//www.multiculturalchildrenslit.com/
• This web site contains links to annotated
  bibliographies of children's multicultural books
  appropriate for the elementary grades
  (kindergarten through grade six). Cultural groups
  currently listed include African Americans,
  Chinese Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans,
  Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans,  Native
  Americans, and Korean Americans.

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Head Start Reading Resources

• Let Us Help you teach young children to read.
• http//www.highscope.org/

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Transition to Kindergarten Resources for
Educators

• http//www.getreadytoread.org
• For parents
• http//www.getreadytoread.org/images/stories/downl
  oads/transition/parent_resources/4_language_englis
  h.pdf

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• http//jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm

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http//lift-missouri.org