Key Objectives

Reading with iPads (RAZ Kids https://www.raz-kids.com/)

Standards: SOL 1.1 The student will continue to demonstrate growth in the use of oral language. b) tell and retell stories and event sin logical order; e) express ideas orally in complete sentences. SOL 1.5 The student will apply knowledge of how print is organized and read. a) read from left to right and from top to bottom; b) match spoken words with print; c) identify letters, words, sentences, and ending punctuation; d) read his/her own writing.

SOL 1.6 The student will apply phonetic principles to read and spell. a) use beginning and ending consonants to decode and spell singly-syllable words; d) use short vowel sounds to

a) use words, phrases, and sentences; b) use titles and pictures; c) use information in the story to read words; d) use knowledge of sentence structure. Taken from the VA First Grade Curriculum Framework found at: http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_doc/english/index.shtml.

Identify Key Objectives:

• The students will be able to use their iPads and the RAZ Kids Program found at https://www.raz-kids.com/ to demonstrate their reading comprehension.

• The students will work on their oral skills to retell a story that they read while using the RAZ Kids Program found at https://www.raz-kids.com/.

Identify Materials Needed:

• Laptop (connected to Smart Board)

• iPads (1/student)

• RAZ Kids Membership https://www.raz-kids.com/

• Smart Board

• Art Center: Crayons, drawing paper, and pencil.

• Book Center: A variety of books that 1st grade students can read. Some books include David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon; If I Build a Car by Chris Van Dusen; Chicken Said “Cluck!” by Judyann Ackerman Grand; Biscuit’s Big Friend, Biscuit’s New Trick, and Biscuit and the Baby by Alyssa Satin Capucilli; Pete the Cat: Cavecat Pete and Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric

Show the students how they are going to get into their RAZ Kids account and what they are supposed to do.

4. Explain that their account is set up for them and that for some, they will have to read the story and answer the questions, whereas others will have to have the story read to them, read the story themselves, and go to the next book.

5. Tell the students that they have to do all of the prompts until they are all checked off before they can go to the next book.

6. Use one student as an example and click on their name.

7. Have this student read the book aloud.

8. Then have that student answer the five questions at the end of the book.

9. Ask the students, “Does anyone have any questions?”

• Lesson

1. Pass out the student cards with their name, password, and I.D. numbers.

2. Have the students get their iPad out of the iPad cart.

3. Next, have the students get their earbuds/headphones.

4. Go around and help students login to their RAZ Kids account.

• Closure

1. Have the students put their iPads and earbuds/headphones away.

2. Next, pair the students up and have one student retell one of the stories that they read.

3. When the first student is done with their story, have the second person retell a story that they