Powerful Interactive Whiteboard Strategies for Your Struggling Learners!

Katie McKnight, Ph.D

Email: Katie@KatherineMcKnight.com

Website: www.KatherineMcKnight.com

Here’s the Plan for Today8:30–10:00 am• Overview and Advantages of Using Interactive

Whiteboards• Powerful Literacy Lessons Using Interactive

Whiteboard

10:00-10:30 am Break

10:30-11:45 am

30 Effective Writing Mini-Lessons

for the Interactive Whiteboard

Here’s the Plan for Today

11:45 am-12:45 pm Lunch

12:45-2:00 pm• 20 Effective Reading Lessons for the

Interactive Whiteboard• Using an Interactive Whiteboard in Literacy

Centers• Using an Interactive Whiteboard for

Responding to Literature

Here’s the Plan for Today

2:00-2:20 pm

Break & SDE Book Table

2:20–3:20 pm• Websites and Materials That Enhance the

Interactive• Whiteboard Experience• Putting It All Together• Q&A with Katie McKnight

Case Study: Hall Memorial School

• We are going to view this video (about 3 minutes) about a rural school that transformed instruction and learning.

• Questions to consider as we watch:– Why do students become engaged with

this technology?– What kinds of activities does the video

showcase?– How do the teachers use the IWB in the

classroom?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KQoRivvfFI

Kids and Technology

• Today’s students, millenials grew up with the Internet.

• Access to unlimited information that can be accessed at any time .

• Many students prefer to use information found on the Internet because they feel it is more abundant, accessible, an d up-to-date (U.S. DOE 2004).

• U.S. Department if Education (U.S> DOE), Office of Educational Technology (OET). Toward A New Golden Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law and Today’s Expectations are Revolutionizing Expectations. Washington, D.C., 2004.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-lCRL19KUQ&feature=related

Millenials’ Demographics (Patrick, 2004)

• Children spend more time online than watching television.

• 94% of children use the Internet for school-related research.

• 71% of children rely on Internet sources for projects.

• 48% of teens think that the Internet improves their relationships.

• 24% of teens have created their own Web pages or sites.

• 43% of children (ages 4-18) in 2003 owned at least one wireless device.

How about our schools?

• 99% of schools are connected to the Internet.• 92% of instructional rooms have Internet

access.• 23% of public schools use wireless networks.• 8% of public schools lent laptops to students.• On average, schools have a 5:1 student to

computer ratio.Patrick, Susan (2004) e-Learning and Students today: Options for No Child Left

Behind. Speech presented at the No Child Left Behind Summit. Orlando, FL., July 2004.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywsNjTep1JI&feature=related

Digital NativesDigital Immigrants

Robert Marzano

“If an experienced teacher who has been using technology for 2 or more years, uses the board appropriately for 75% of the class time, and has enough training to be confident in his or her use of technology, student achievement gains were highest.”

Marzano, R. J. (2009). Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards. Educational Leadership

Impact on Struggling LearnersLearning Types

Reaching all Learners

Let’s look at this “short vowel” lesson in a special education classroom.

Some questions to consider as we watch:

What intelligences are incorporated in the lesson?

What are the students doing during the lesson?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdiHbtAACFg&feature=related

Technology helps us to Reach All Kinds of Learners.

POWERFUL LITERACY LESSONS USING INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDTECHNOLOGY

We’re going to look at two interactive whiteboard lessons

Lesson One Lesson Two

Record your Observations About Each

lesson

What makes a good literacy lesson?

• Preview the concept/skill.• Chunking.• Scaffold-building the blocks toward learning

the new concept or skill.• Pacing- vary tasks and keep the momentum.• Interactive-engage the students.

• Provide immediate feedback for the students.

What are your ideas for lessons?

BREAK10:00-10:30

30 Effective Writing Mini-Lessons for the

Interactive Whiteboard

What makes a good writing mini lesson?

• Let’s look at the Mini Lesson– Determine Content Need– Keep Them Short– Make Them Simple– Engage Students and Provide for

Interaction– Provide Practice Time– Consider, “What’s Next?”– Evaluate

www.kerpoof.com

SPELL A

PICTURE

Magic Key

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/index.shtml

• The BBC has a wonderful interactive site called The Magic Key based on the Oxford Reading Tree learning program.  The site contains nine literacy "adventures" for children that all work great with the SMARTBoard Interactive Whiteboard.

• The Magic Key website is aimed at children aged 5-6 years and follows the TV programmes in which Kipper, Biff, Chip, Wilf, Wilma and Floppy go off on their adventures.

From the SMART Exchangehttp://exchange.smarttech.com

• Random Writing Prompts

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=2a22a255-b07a-4e59-8222-ad6fec17e6ab

• Teaching Figurative Language in Reading and Writing

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=c63d0858-6987-4025-90df-b84b4eef1cd0

• Verb Practice http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=8f54abee-fa58-4ed8-b400-70a3496b5d25

From the SMART Exchangehttp://exchange.smarttech.com

• Author’s Purposehttp://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=85bb309d-d8b2-4adc-a1c8-5f442363b51f

• Complete Sentences

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=35da3367-c7d1-45a6-a614-fda6567995de

6+ 1 Traits Writing

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=9960c6db-9ece-476f-942a-e14f7cf3c64d

Antonyms and Synonyms

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=d3b04595-ca1e-4e2c-9086-9cde1704874f

Punctuating Direct Quotations

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=853ba317-d167-4599-b5e1-ee37c4fcf6e0

Paragraphs

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=61843b83-277d-4d76-8aa8-64e47e6f1d2b

Writing:Parts of Speech Review

http://bebright.info/languagearts.aspx

• Games and resources geared to teach Language Arts through interactive games. Aligned to California state content standards, but adaptable and applicable across state lines.

• Here’s a fun game for Parts of Speech Review

• http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/invasion/invasion.html

Adjectives Lesson Demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxTCZ665vs&feature=related

A teacher demonstrates how she teaches her students how to use adjectives in writing.

Writing: Spelling

• http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsv/smg/index.html

• This site uses the Houghton Mifflin basal readers as a guide for generating 6 lists of spelling words per grade 1-8. While there is a limited number of activities per grade, those presented are interactive and can help students with a variety of language skills.

Writing: Posters, Newspapers and Comics

• http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/elci/index.html?launch=true

• This website shows you how to design effective posters, newspapers and comics by going through the important elements of each. Later you can try out your own designs. A brilliant teaching tool.

Interactive Writing Templates

• http://www.writingfun.com/• Chock full of information about, examples of

and blank templates for various genres of writing. Highly interactive, this site can be used for whole class, small group or even individual writing-center instruction.

Some Interactive Writing Lesson Samples

Book Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUp1Pt-TSxg

Paragraph Writing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-QOM3vf_s&feature=related

Here Are Some Writing Lessons from Promethean Planet

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/

Note that a Log In and User Name are required for this site.

Now What?

• Now that we have looked at some resources for the interactive whiteboard turn to “elbow partner” and

1. Identify which activities, interactives, and tools that you think you will use in your classroom for writing instruction.

2. Add to our list. Do you know of other engaging tools for the interactive whiteboard that would support writing instruction?

Lunch Break11:45 am–12:45 pm

12:45–2:00 pm

20 Effective Reading Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard• Modeling and teaching comprehension skills•Using an Interactive Whiteboard in Literacy Centers

•Using an Interactive Whiteboard for Responding to Literature

“Make a Word” Lesson

According to the teacher, the IWB “Make a Word” mini lesson is part of the reading block.

How could you use IWBs as part of a center during a literacy block?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXYOvenEFJY&feature=related

What Makes an Effective Reading Lesson?

• Preview the concept/skill.• Chunking.• Scaffold-building the blocks toward learning

the new concept or skill.• Pacing- vary tasks and keep the momentum.• Interactive-engage the students.

• Provide immediate feedback for the students.

From the SMART Exchangehttp://exchange.smarttech.com

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=7f168a88-e1e8-47f5-982a-f8f77bda53cc

Finding the main idea

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=a64011dc-835a-4ebd-9739-134b8297e834

Inferences and Prediction

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=2ac6cf0e-42b4-4089-b380-a6d6bede881d

Sequence of Events

From the SMART Exchangehttp://exchange.smarttech.com

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=09eafe88-e699-4615-8c2d-112f0507d68a

Story Elements

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=8facdeb7-4de7-4d9d-b7c0-47089da00435

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?

http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=9f875d6b-8fc8-41d4-a3df-6f490fad3925

Poetry Interactive Site

PBS

http://pbskids.org/lions/

Reading Between the Lions from PBS. There are great games and stories that are IWB compatible.

http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/

Wordgirl from PBS teaches kids about words and language.

http://pbskids.org/catinthehat/

The Cat in the Hat series features games and videos that support reading skills while learning about science and social studies topics.

More Reading Lessons

http://eduscapes.com/sessions/pilot/pilotread.htm

Reading Practicehttp://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/load.htm?f

Reading Fluencyhttp://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f

Learning to Read

Video Demonstrating Starfall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t0oZP7tJjA&feature=related

More Reading Lessonshttp://education.jlab.org/reading/index.html

Reading Comprehension Passages

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/

Great interactive whiteboard activities that make use of the visual and audio capabilities of new technologies to teach Language Arts skills.

http://www.fekids.com/kln/games/wordjungle/

Word Jungle

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/game/play.phtml?dest=Lit_v52.dcr&width=500&height=300&ini=lesson2.ini&height2=296

Practice with Literary Elements

More Reading Lessons

Retelling Stories

As we watch this video, identify the interactive whiteboard tools that the teacher uses for this lesson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowuN6A1No0&feature=related

Context Clues Game

Students play a carnival game to develop context clue skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=045-YDrNxhQ

Question: What do we know about gaming and learning?

Read Write Think

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/wordfamily/

Word Family Sort

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/bio_cube/

Use this interactive after students have read a biography or an autobiography

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/circle-plot/

Use as a post reading activity where students can analyze the plot.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/lit-elements/

More appropriate for 6th-12th grade students. Interactive facilitates literary element analysis.

Read Write Think

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/plot-diagram/

Interactive plot diagram

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/storymap/

Story Map

Read Write Think

Reading: Using the Interactive Whiteboard

Now that we have looked at some resources for the interactive whiteboard turn to “elbow partner” and

1. Identify which activities, interactives, and tools that you think you will use in your classroom for reading instruction.

2. Add to our list. Do you know of other engaging tools for the interactive whiteboard that would support reading instruction?

Discussion

Encouraging discussion about reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meyX0rVOSK8&feature=related

Context Clues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcYQhmq-x28

Graphic Organizers and other tools are featured in this commercially produced lesson.

More Language Arts Ideas

• http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/what/math/smartboard/episodes/teachingwithsmartboardepisode43.htm

Additional Sources for Interactive Whiteboards

2:20–3:20 pm

Interactive WebsitesNYTimes Learning Network - Snapshot http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/snapshot/archive.html

Scholastic Homework Hubhttp://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/locator.htm

Interactive Online Activities http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

Many activities including cartoon strip creator, venn diagram creator, story maps, etc.

Interactive WebsitesOnline Language Arts Resources

http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/communicationarts.htm#Grammar/Usage/Mechanics

Reading Planet http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/ Students can read and write collaborative stories, interact with words, create poems, and more! 

Exploring Comprehensive Literacy Resources http://www.lite.iwarp.com/complit2.htmlMany links to websites for vocabulary, word solving, phonemic awareness.

Interactive WebsitesVocabulary.com

http://www.vocabulary.com/ Online games and activities

English Exercises Online http://www.smic.be/smic5022/

Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun!http://www.vocabulary.co.il/

Alfy's What Am I? Word Game http://www.alfy.com/Brain_Train/ABC/alfy03.asp

Interactive WebsitesStarfall

http://www.starfall.com/ Online stories and activities (phonics, etc.)

Words and Pictures http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml

Online games for kids

Goodnight Storieshttp://goodnightstories.com/stories.htm

Interactive Language Arts Online Activitieshttp://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html

Interactive Websites• http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/

Variety of online activities

Apostrophe/Comma Punctuation Gamehttp://www.eatsshootsandleaves.com/ESLquiz.html

•http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/Online news articles and reading comprehension questions for older students

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/psmain.htm

Online main idea/comprehension practice

More Useful Resources

More Useful ResourcesA Wide Variety of General Resources:

www.smartboard.cmsce.site.eboard.com

An Educational Technology Teacher’s Website:

http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/04/07/smartboard-and-calendar-times/

Primary Math Resources

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=250,index

Smartboards and EveryDay Math

http://smartboardsandeverydaymath.com/

More Useful ResourcesVideo Demonstrations on SMARTboards

http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/what/math/smartboard/

SMARTboard Resources and Tips

http://smartboardresources.pbworks.com/w/page/15606713/FrontPage

http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/

http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/

http://www.spinandspell.com/

Ten Interactive Web 2.0 Tools for the IWB

http://www.drezac.com/2010/05/ten-interactive-white-board-web-20.html

More Useful ResourcesGreat Word Problem Solving Resources with a

Thanksgiving theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYbSSFzB9qQ

A Big Picture Look at All of Thishttp://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

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