I first became aware of Dr. Don Leu’s work at the VSRA conference about 4 years ago. Someone dragged me to the General Session and said they thought that I would enjoy the speaker. I was skeptical, but pleasantly surprised. So when I saw that he was featured for this conference, I was determined to go to one of his sessions. During this session, Dr. Leu gave 15 ideas on how to work on online reading comprehension. This was a great reminder, as some of the ideas were too forward thinking for many of us the last time that he came. I certainly wasn’t ready to go back and help teachers integrate some of them the last time…too many of the teachers weren’t ready. Many still are not ready, but some of the ideas are part of our everyday practice at this point. You can find his handout herein electronic format so that you can use the links… LeuKeynoteHandout
Some ideas that I would like to try:
- Using Internet workshop as an instructional model – I think 6th grade social studies would be perfect for this – Ms. Hamill, Mrs. Mitchell, and Ms. Underwood – I would be happy to help you try this out. I think given a structured problem and a simple worksheet would make the idea appealing to the kids and it wouldn’t take too long.
- Using search engine results to teach students to read to locate information – this would be great in both all of the intermediate grades. Mrs. Hunter-Lowe, Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Wesley – I would specifically like to work on this lesson with you.
- Internet Project – Send/Receive and international morning message of the day – I think fr 2nd and 3rd grade, this would be great if we set it up in the begining of the year and worked with schools that represented the countries that you study. Mrs. Heil, Mrs. Bass, Ms. K. Brown; Mrs. Rowson, Ms. Bailey, Ms. Sheppard, Mr. T…we should all work get together and plan on doing this for next year. I’m going to tag Luann Smith while I’m at it – this would be perfect for foreign language as well.