F. Use technology to reinforce and support reading behaviors across all content areas.

Electronic Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources
This lesson is a step towards the students completing a written report on a state symbol. The students will examine and rate the relevance of electronic sources, not only learning another part of the research process but also experiencing it first hand.

Pencil Pages: Getting to the Point When Researching Information
Students examine the website The Pencil Pages! and compare and contrast the site's organization with print text structure conventions, noting the similarities between the subtopics on the site and the use of chapters in a book.
 

Kids' Corner: Beatrix Potter Stories:  Beatrix Potter stories online. Some are read for the students. Multimedia slideshows accompany some of the stories.

Ranger Rick:  Ranger Rick's online magazine provides cross-curricular activities.

Cool Websites for Kids:  These are cool sites for kids covering a variety of subjects. The sites include interactive games, hands-on practices, audio and video clips.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Identify key characters in short story nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-to-two word responses.
E/B: Respond to simple, orally presented factual questions about an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-two-word responses.
E/B: Create pictures, lists, charts, and graphic organizers to illustrate characteristics of short stories.
E/B: Demonstrate sequence of events from an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-to-two word responses.
E/B: Identify main events of familiar fairy tales and folktales from around the world and express with simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify main events of familiar fairy tales, folktales, legends, and fables from around the world and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Understand basic plots of classic fairy tales, folktales, legends, and fables from around the world.
E/B: Identify main characters within an illustratively supported text and express with simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify main characters based on their interactions within an illustratively supported text and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Describe characters based on events and statements within the text.
E/B: Identify main events in illustratively supported fiction and nonfiction texts and express with simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify main events in fiction and nonfiction texts and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Identify theme in fiction and nonfiction texts.
D: Identify most text and content features of poetry, drama, and short stories and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Recognize different types of literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
D: Identify speaker or narrator in reading selection and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Identify speaker or narrator in reading selections.
 

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