Robin Talkowski’s Blog: Reading & Technology

Teaching Resources: Reading My colleagues and I recently presented a session,  “Engage, Enrich, and Reinforce: Using Technology in the Middle School Reading/Language Arts Classroom”at the Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE) Conference.  Many of the resources we discussed are noted in a binder created using LiveBinder.

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My students are working on analyzing characters as part of our fiction unit. They have been focusing on three elements as they examine how authors build characters: physical appearance, what characters say and what characters do. We used avatars to examine how small changes in eyes, eyebrows, and mouths can powerfully impact the inferences we [...]

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