How to Integrate Computers Into Reading Comprehension & Fluency
Reading instruction is multi-faceted. Teachers introduce and practice phonological awareness, fluency and comprehension skills simultaneously using a variety of resources. These include texts, graphic organizers and supplemental materials. Computers are now an integral part of reading. The Internet has many sites that reinforce and review basic and advanced reading skills. There are numerous sites with games and activities that help students build comprehension and fluency, regardless of their current academic level.
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Listen to online stories and books with your students. Kids need to hear fluent reading often. In addition to reading aloud to them, listening to online stories allows them to hear a variety of voices and intonations. Storynory and Magic Keys feature many children's stories as well as books for young readers. Students can listen to stories being read aloud, or they can read printed text themselves and listen to featured audio portions.
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Play online comprehension games that reinforce strategies like predicting and summarizing. Have students enhance their skills on Readquarium by playing interactive games on comparison/contrast, cause/effect and fact/opinion. Mr. Nussbaum's site has passages that students read and an accompanying timed quiz. Passages cover a variety of subject areas in science, history, animals and famous people.
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Use digital whiteboard for comprehension strategies. This device is actually an electronic dry-erase board that teachers and students can write on anywhere in the room and is projected through the computer. Demonstrate graphic organizers like story webs, sequencing charts, and main ideas and supporting details outlines.
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Track kids' progress with fluency calculators and online assessments. Scholastic has links to oral reading tests complete with charts for recording results. Scholastic also has a tool that figures a student's current reading level when you enter his grade and the number of words he reads per minute. Kids can enter this information themselves to keep up with their own progress.
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