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Literacy Software for Early Childhood Education

The document discusses an observation task that asks student teachers to identify literacy software and web-based programs used in classrooms. It provides an example table to document each program's age range, links to curriculum standards, support for multiple intelligences, and comments. The reflection questions ask whether any programs were observed being used and if so, which literacy skills they addressed, or if not, recommends two programs for developing early literacy skills: the Language Teaching Clipart Library and Quandary.

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Literacy Software for Early Childhood Education

The document discusses an observation task that asks student teachers to identify literacy software and web-based programs used in classrooms. It provides an example table to document each program's age range, links to curriculum standards, support for multiple intelligences, and comments. The reflection questions ask whether any programs were observed being used and if so, which literacy skills they addressed, or if not, recommends two programs for developing early literacy skills: the Language Teaching Clipart Library and Quandary.

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Observation Task 5: Literacy Software /Web based Programs

Focus: Identify types of literacy software / web based programs used in the classroom

Objective: To encourage student teachers to use various literacy software / web based programs
in the classroom which support the development of early childhood literacy skills

Procedure: Familiarize yourself with the Observation Table: Documenting Computer Software /
Web based Programs. Describe how each program / website that was used in the classroom
supports the current unit of study, the ADEC curriculum, and multiple bits of intelligence

Table 5: Documenting Computer Software / Web based Programs (Example)


Software Title Age Links to the ADEC Curriculum Links to Multiple Bits of Comments
Range Intelligence
4 years The Hot Potatoes suite includes Verbal-Linguistic It is not open-source. The Java
to any six applications, enabling you to Intelligence version provides all the
age create interactive multiple- features found in the
above choice, short-answer, jumbled- Logical-Mathematical windows version, except: you
sentence, crossword, Intelligence can't upload to
matching/ordering and gap-fill [Link] and you can't
Hot potato exercises for the World Wide Interpersonal export a SCORM object from
Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, Intelligence Java Hot Potatoes.
and you may use it for any
purpose or project you like. Visual-Spatial
intelligence
Navigating pathways
through a range of
computer screens

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Reflections on Observation Task 5: Literacy Software / Web based Programs

1. Were there any literacy s oftware / web bas ed programs us ed in the


clas s room? If there were, s elect (a); if there were not, s elect (b).

a) What did early childhood literacy s kills the s oftware/web bas ed


programs addres s ?

b) Provide at least two (2) literacy / web based programs that the teacher can
use to help assist her students in developing their early literacy skills.

- Language Teaching Clipart Library


- Quandary

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