This document discusses using technology tools like VoiceThread, Screencast-O-Matic, and Scrible to support reading strategies. It recommends creating a library of read alouds organized by thinking skills, topics or themes to model reading strategies. It also suggests using journals in VoiceThread for student reflection, critical thinking and expressing ideas. Finally, it provides links to these tools and guides on annotation to make reading an active process where students can ask questions, make connections and reflect on what they're reading.

1. Presenter: Kelli Stair
Author of VoiceThread for Digital Education
www.angrybunnypublishing.com
Email: kellistair2013@gmail.com

2.  ReadAlouds
with Screencast-O-Matic
 Journals
withVoiceThread
 Reading Strategies
with Scrible

4.  Why read aloud to kids (of all ages)?
 Demonstrate fluency and pacing
 Model reading strategies (with think alouds)
 Increase vocabulary
 Demonstrate complex sentence structures and
organizational patterns
 Demonstrate rhetorical/literary devices and their
effectiveness
 Entice students to read like a trailer

6.  Create audio/video files to scaffold reading
 HostThinkAlouds with critical thinking skills
 Demonstrate fluency
 Have students create to demonstrate fluency
 Create library of read alouds organized by
think aloud skills, topics, or themes
 Differentiate instruction
 Demonstrate reading informational text
features

8.  As Ron Klug (2002: 1) has put it – ‘a place to
record daily happenings’. However, as he also
says it is far more than that:
 A journal is also a tool for self-discovery, an
aid to concentration, a mirror for the soul, a
place to generate and capture ideas, a safety
valve for the emotions, a training ground for
the writer, and a good friend and confidant.
 Helps reflection, critical thinking, and
expression of ideas

9.  https://voicethread.com/share/4784781/
 Go to this link, sign up forVoiceThread (if you
haven’t already), and journal using type, talk,
or webcam to comment

10.  Personal journals to record and reflect upon
daily activities
 Content/ thematic journals using multimedia
and reflection
 Daily writing prompts
 Inquiry journals-students find prompts and
write
 Entrance/ Exit Activities

11. Make reading an ACTIVE process
 Find information quickly
 Get familiar with content and organization
 Engage issues and ideas
 Questions
 Connections
 Comments
 Reflections

12.  http://www.scrible.com/contentview/page/IGQG110GJ45KOJ6B20
S3O39F4IC46M8B:31905399/index.html

13.  Read difficult text
 Close reads/ Deep reads
 Thematic text connections
 Novels, short stories, poetry
 Practice analytical and identification skills
 Organize info in a way that makes sense to
the reader
 Make connections between texts and within
texts

14.  Use Scrible to annotate online
text
 Screencast yourself modeling
how to annotate
 Upload to aVoiceThread so that
students can access any time

15.  www.screencast-o-matic.com
 www.voicethread.com
 www.scrible.com
 Annotation
 AP guide:
http://www.vidorisd.org/VHSwebsite/announcements/1112/English_Summer/English3Summe
rProject.pdf
 MakingAnnotations Guide:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1132/AnnotationGu
ide.pdf
 Reading habits (Harvard):
http://guides.library.harvard.edu/sixreadinghabits