Technology ppt poetry

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Poetry: 4th Grade Unit Tara Rice Spring 2014

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Poetry:

4th Grade UnitTara Rice

Spring 2014

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Technology Integration Poetry can be a meaningful and vital

experience for helping students learn to express their emotions and ideas through writing. Studying poetry allows students to critically think and analyze various forms of figurative language.

By integrating technology into a poetry unit, students will be provided with the opportunity to use online blogs, podcasts, videos, and other interactive technological experiences to enhance their understanding and become engaged in learning.

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Internet Content The internet provides many sources of relevant and

helpful information related to poetry that can easily be

used within a 4th grade unit

This presentation will include various reliable online

sources related to the topic of poetry

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Blog Mrs. Warner provides a website and blog for her 4th

grade classroom. She offers a great post on poetry

which includes tons of resources of various types of

poems which can be implemented in a 4th grade poetry

unit!

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Podcast Poem of the Day is a Podcast available for free on

iTunes which provide classic and contemporary poems

each day read aloud by poets and actors.

Teachers can use this Podcast in the classroom to

allow students to hear different poems from day to day!

This can also lead into a group discussion or a quick

group activity. Teachers can pick and choose

numerous poems which are appropriate for the

classroom.

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YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTT-ZEqPlU

YouTube can provide students with videos of poems

read aloud with pictures and background music to help

display a poem in an engaging way

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Internet Resources Poetry Foundation:

Provides various poems, poetry news, videos, articles etc. which can be used throughout a poetry unit

Readworks.org

provides teachers with unit ideas, lessons, reading passages, and worksheets that are all aligned to the CCSS.

ReadWriteThink.org

Readwritethink.org provides teachers with tons of resources regarding an entire month long poetry unit! Lesson plans, classroom activities, and other technological resources are available

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Kidspiration

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Teaching Materials

Scholastic provides over 400 various printable poetry worksheets!

Here is an example of a poetry worksheet which students can complete to strengthen their descriptive writing among poems.

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Teaching Materials iFridge Poet is an app

which can be used on iPads or iPod touches to allow students to create their own magnetic fridge poetry!

Students will be able to compose their own creative phrases and poems through this engaging technological resource

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Teaching Materials Pinterest

provides teachers with various resources and links to numerous websites for enriching activities, lesson plans, and other creative classroom possibilities.

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Teaching Materials Readwritethink.org

provides a lesson plan and

activity to help students

create their own acrostic

poems

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Subject-specific Internet-based

Resources Edsitement:

Provides many lesson plans and activities for various

subjects which can be implemented in classrooms K-12

Example: Can You Haiku? Lesson Plan and Activities

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Uses of the Internet:

Online Archives The Children’s Poetry Archive:

Allows students to search various topics and read many

corresponding poems!

PBS:

PBS.org provides a collection of poems written by kids.

Students are also able to write and publish their own

poems through the website

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Uses of the Internet:

Interactive Sources Scholastic Poetry Idea Engine:

Scholastic provides an online poem generator (which is

also compatible for Smartboards) for an engaging

opportunity for students to produce all types of poems!

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Web 2.0 Game classroom provides different language arts and

math games, lessons, and worksheets for collaboration

in the classroom!

The thesaurus game can help 4th graders strengthen

their vocabulary and produce more descriptive poems!

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