D+-+During+Reading+Strategies

The Following activities are intended to:

 * 1) ===Help students monitor their own understanding of the material===
 * 2) ===Allow students to interact with the material being presented===
 * 3) ===Determine which areas of the material need additional reinforcement===

__**Strategy#1 Graphic Organizer**__ Using Smart Notebook on the desktop computers students will create a graphical picture (timeline) that depicts the evolution of the computers from its earlier creation to the present.

__**Strategy #2 Silent Reading**__ While reading through the text and from information being presented, students will use their Bb Journals to create entries from what they have read. Students will include big ideas, names of inventors and their inventions as well as new vocabulary terms and definitions.

__**Strategy #3 Read Aloud**__ I will read the story of the Bernstein Bears and the students will use their Bb blogs to describe what they've heard and comment on their classmates posts. The following sentence starters will be available for the students to use:
 * I agree that there should be limits on the computer because...
 * Limiting time on the computer is an issue for me because...
 * Some rules for being safe on the internet could be...
 * The thing that stood out the most from the reading was...
 * I didn't understand why...

__**Strategy #4 Brain Pop (formative assessment)**__ Brain Pop The students will view the Brain Pop video and then complete the online assessment and email it to me. Video synopsis: How did we get from punchcards to PDAs? Find out in this BrainPOP movie, as Tim and Moby guide you through the history of computers. See examples of early counting devices and discover what the earliest programmable machines did.

__**Strategy #5 Video Review Using 3-2-1 Strategy**__ Computer Pioneers Students will view a video titled "Computer Pioneers" from YouTube and hear from the inventors themselves. In a Discussion Thread in Bb students will post comments as well as respond to their classmates comments. 3 things that surprised me or struck me and I had no clue! 2 things that I still have to think about 1 question I would like to ask one of the inventors