Lesson Incorporating Technology

Lesson Objective: When given an audio file of 15 words containing the /ea/ letter combination on the desktop computers, student will correctly spell by typing 15/15 words in a word document.

Target Grade Level: Second Grade

Activities:

Demonstrate:

Teacher introduced the sound /ea/ in written form on the interactive whiteboard (eg. /ea/ as in eat).

Guided Practice:

Students sound out words with /ea/ that are written on white board.

Guided Practice:

Teacher reads /ea/ words while students spell words on individual whiteboards.

Individual Practice Activity:

Students use computer lab to practice spelling /ea/ words through an audio recording spelling test.  

Incorporation of Technology to:

Meet specific student needs –

Student with attention difficulty: Teacher presents directions and visuals using the interactive whiteboard. This allows that student to refer to directions and the lesson, which helps her stay on task. Additionally, while students work to spell words on their whiteboards, this student will be the teacher’s helper by being provided with the correct spelling of the word to then show the whole class.

Student with a hearing impairment: The teacher will check out a sound system from the EATRC which broadcasts the teacher’s voice throughout the classroom. It can also be set up to go directly into the student’s hearing aid. During the spelling test, each student will have headphones connected to the computer. The student with the hearing impairment can turn up the volume and also rewind the file as needed.

Present ideas to the class –

Interactive whiteboard is used to project visuals to the entire class

Audio file is used to give all students the spelling words at their own pace

Check for understanding along the way –

Individual whiteboards

Spelling test

Allow students to show what they learned –

Individual whiteboards

Spelling test on computers.

Share student work –

Using the spelling tests to create a graph and list of commonly misspelled words to display on the whiteboard and have a class discussion about the words. Use this to re-teach any words.

Communicate what is going on in class with parents-

Put the audio file on the class blog along with the graph and list of results

Ask families to use the words in conversation