TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES FOR PRE- or BEGINNING LITERATE STUDENTS
Lunch and Learn
4CPDLRC
4/10/09 and 4/17/09 

Session Objectives

This workshop will explore ways in which to use technology to help students improve their reading and writing skills. Equally rich resources are there for numeracy. Some sites address second language learners who may or may not be literate in their native languages.  After this session, spend some time exploring the activities for your own students. You may have to adapt the original concept to suit your needs.

Concentration

Matching Activities

Sound Symbols

http://www.manythings.org/e/easy.html - Main Site. Explore the links on the side columns.

http://www.manythings.org/lulu/ - Really simple matches (Pairs = concentration)

http://www.manythings.org/listen/ - Listen and read (i.e. Obama)

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/abcmatch/

http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0013360/concentration.htm- Instructions 

http://library.thinkquest.org - Hundreds of student projects
http://library.thinkquest.org/J003269F/ - Causes of death in children 

http://www.prongo.com/games/ages9-12.html

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/

Enchanted Learning (Must be a member. Yearly cost only $20)

http://chiresources.pbwiki.com/Using-Excel-with-Adult-Learners - This workshop covered Excel resources.  Scroll down to  Literacy Activities (Open different tabs ) and Matching with Excel. Think of how you could adapt the ideas to your beginning readers.

Cloze

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/cloze/

http://bogglesworldesl.com/cloze_activities.htm

Stories

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

- Check out the short books library!

LINCS

http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/lincs/search/resource/student.cgi  - National

http://www.literacynet.org/lincs/ -Western Pacific

http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/home.html - News Stories 

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/otheractivities.html

http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/stories/stories.html

Language Experience

http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/Literacy/ImplementALiteracyProgram/UsingLanguageExperienceStories.htm

http://www.suite101.com/view_image.cfm/361279 - Sample

What activities could emerge from the sample? (phonics, cloze, punctuation, pronouns, singular/plural, sentence structure, verbs and tenses, dictation, parts of speech, on and on)

Word, PP and Excel

http://www.learningtechnologies.ac.uk/itqss/excel_examples.htm