Reading Workshop Ideas

This blog was great because the teacher that wrote it teachers second grade, which is around the same level that I want to be at in my career. I have worked with kids since I was in the 9th grade, and the first thing you notice is that they want to tell you EVERYTHING. They want you to know funny things that happened that day, bad things, weird things, gross things, and even things that are made up.

Padlet is an awesome way to be able to hear all of your students' issues, concerns, and stories. The kids can use the computers in the classroom to enter their comments onto a "cork board" that is projected onto the screen. Like Google Drive, it happens in real time and more than one person can be logging at the same time.

Answer Pad is a fun way for children to express their ideas. The teacher can ask a question to the class, and the students can write or even draw their response. This would only be used in a classroom in which the students have access to iPads, but it would be a great way for students who are visual learners to interact in lessons.

With LiveScribe, students can put stickers on paper in notebooks or projects, touch the sticker with the LIveScribe Pen, and you will hear audio coming from the pen! The author's son did this with a report on parrots in preschool, and posted a video of how it was done Here . I think that this is a creative and fun way to get students engaged in lessons and for them to heighten your senses during a presentation.

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2013/09/how-technology-can-support-enhance-your-reading-workshop