This is power point of how I used technology in my first grade classroom to teach editing and conventions.

1. Editing and Conventions An interactive lesson using the Promethean board and activstudio software. By Katie Madsen

6. This is the first slide I started with and I used it to model how to do the editing activity. The screen cover in activstudio allowed me to hide parts of the flipchart I didn’t want the students to see yet.

7. This is what the slide looks like when I revealed the corrected version. This provided a way for the students to check themselves and to see how it would look with the corrections made.

8. This is the next writing sample. The red lines are the errors identified by the students.

9. This is the full screen with the corrected sample below.

10. This was sample the students liked the most because more than 50% of them speak another language at home. We spent extra time talking about this topic and they shared some great things!

11. Here’s an example of a student coming up to underline a mistake.

12. This is a picture of me reviewing why we made the corrections we did. I would ask for a volunteer to explain and then fill in anything they left out.

13. This was the last writing sample.