Integrating Technology and Literacy, Alaa

The Storyboard for My Digital Story        Previously, I shared the proposal for my digital story which is an application for the strategy in teaching kids through games and activities. So, today I’m sharing the storyboard for the digital story that represents the lesson. My goal in this digital story is the kindergarten and first grade English language learners to achieve the following standards in the language: §   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. §   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.A Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I §   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.B Recognize and name end punctuation. §   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.D Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships. §   Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: §   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.4 ...

ReadWriteThink          One of the most interesting technological tools, that I have been introduced to a few days ago is the ReadWriteThink website, which uses to create a Haiku poem and Acrostic poem. It one of the best technological tools ever for poetry addicts'. At first, the idea of this website was not clear to me but trying to discover the benefits of it. I found that ReadWriteThink is my new game. I always love poetry and writing poetry. Therefore, having this kind of websites is a great gift to me. Also, I believe it is going to be great for literature's teacher to be used as a tool in an activity by the end of a course about writing poems or an introduction lesson to literature to help student especially the English language learner to understand some of the literature terms. Moreover, it is going to be great for the young learner to memorize the new vocabularies.  Additionally, the website provides variety of lesson plan to help teachers....