By:Maria L Verheyn MS Ed, CCC-SLP

ELMO

Document Camera

•High Tech Overhead Projector

• Easy to use

• Projects any image including books and

paper.

How To Use…Techno Braidy can be used on the ELMO or on the LCD player with the computer. It is projected on

the screen in the classroom for all the students to see. It is ideal for

the inclusion classroom.

. . WHO – Main Character

Where

Kick Off

Feeling Plan

Feeling

1

2

4

3

Attempts to achieve plan

Resolution

Techno Braidy

Beginning of Story

Middle of Story

End of Story

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Who is the story about?Adapted By:Maria L Verheyn

Where does the story

take place?

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Kick Off – It was a ho-hum day and then…

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How did the character feel?

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Plan

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1

2

3

4

First…

Next…

Then…

Finally…

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Problem Solving

Activity –

Write about another way Miss Rosemary could have gotten Gertrude down. Draw and color a picture to match.

The Cow Who Wouldn’t Come Down

by Paul Brett Johnson

An effective inclusion activity to use all year long

By:

Heather Ormiston

M.Ed, SLP

• Meet with your classroom teacher and discuss the current writing focus

•Select a story to support the goals and objectives or classroom standard

*Focus during the story:

predictions, story elements (using Braidy), sequencing,

answering “wh” and inferential questions, compare/contrast, etc.

•Students complete the written activity and add a drawing for their page

•Scan the book cover and bind the pages to create the class book

•At the end of the year hold a raffle (make sure you have enough books plus 1

for the students). Each student will keep a book from the class.

A Turkey For Thanksgiving

By Eve Bunting

• 10-15 min. Introduce story and read using the ELMO

• 5-10 min. Using the ELMO or LCD projector, review the elements of the story using Techno Braidy

• 5 min. Introduce the activity for the students to complete (i.e. an alternative ending to story, compare/contrast how turkey felt in the middle of the story compared to the end of the story.)

• 15-20 min. Students work on activity.

• Collect work, and compile it into a class book.

Finally…

Maria.verheyn@cobbk12.org heather.ormiston@cobbk12.org