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Ten Easy Steps to Integrate the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension into Your Reading and Language Arts Classroom

 

 

Presented by:

Donald J. Leu

John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair of Literacy and Technology

University of Connecticut

donald.leu@uconn.edu

Member of The New Literacies Research Team at UConn

http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/

 

Videos of all instructional models are at: http://ctell.uconn.edu/canter/canter_video.cfm?

 

In this session, I share ten easy steps to integrate the Internet into your K-12 reading and language arts, English, and content area classrooms --  increasing reading comprehension, learning, critical thinking, and engagement as students acquire the new literacies of their future. Many important resources will be shared including links to the classrooms of our finest literacy educators on the Internet. 

TEN EASY STEPS

  1. Learn from exceptional online educators at your level.
  2. Teach the Online Comprehension Skills for Locating Information
  3. Use Starfall.
  4. Use Read Write Think.
  5. Discover the potential of Internet Workshop.
  6. Discover the potential of Internet Project.
  7. Teach the Online Comprehension Skills of Critical Evaluation
  8. Have teachers help the last become first.
  9. Connect with over 1200 incredibly bright and supportive reading educators at RTEACHER.
  10. Keep a patient heart and be willing to help others on their journeys.

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