4th Grade Construction

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My goals are:

Give students a first look at wikis and some practice using one.
Express in writing support for their ideas about their own work and others’.
Read a non-fiction article and add text features based on what they believe the main idea is.

How will you know if this site is helping your users reach the objectives [...]

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How will you introduce this to the class? The non-fiction reading skill of using titles, subtitles, etc. to get to the main idea of an article will be worked on in class through shared reading. I will also do shared readings where the text features are covered up and we as a group come [...]

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What tools (or combination of tools) will you use to support the site? I plan to include an explicit home page (protected) of what I expect them to do and how to do it.  I will also have screencast tutorials of how to edit their page and how to leave comments.  There will be a [...]

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What do you want users to be able to do when they visit this site? I want them to go to the Home page for directions for what they are supposed to do, see an example of how to do it, and links to articles with text features. I want them to find their [...]

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Who are your users? I am creating this project for my fourth grade class (9-10 year olds). I should have approximately 30 students in my class. I expect that they will have varying computer and typing skills, although most kids at my site have computers at home. The majority of them are English speakers.
What [...]

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An important skill for fourth grade students reading non-fiction articles is effectively using titles, subtitles, headings, and captions.  These text features should be used to help them understand what they are reading and to get to the main idea of an article.  Sometimes these text features are not as helpful as they should be, so [...]

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Misty recommended Animoto, so I checked it out and it’s very easy and pretty cool.

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Well, between checking in with my parents in San Diego (my dad has had a kidney stone removed yesterday and his gall bladder removed today) and trying to be on vacation with my family here in Sedona, I have gotten a little work done (emphasis on “little”). I will be behind on this week’s [...]

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