What's the point?

As I've been trying to find a way to incorporate technology into a high achieving second grade reading group, many different aspects have come to mind. There are so many differing aspects of technology that I want to implement in this classroom. After much research, I figured out the perfect idea! I will be using podcasting and self critiquing strategies to help these students improve on their writing and fluency skills!

This blog is used to monitor the success of these second grade students. They are getting the opportunity to write book reviews and use podcasts to record them. After they use the podcasts, they will be using self critiquing strategies to improve on the six traits of writing. The six traits include: ideas, sentence fluency, organization, word choice, voice, and conventions. Not only will they be using a rubric for the six traits, but they will be using a checklist to make sure that they are staying on track.

I am very eager to start this project tomorrow and cannot wait to see the results! I will soon upload the rubric and the checklist before beginning my data collection. Tomorrow I will collect pre-data in order to monitor the progress of these students throughout the next couple months.