Blended Content
Preregistration RequiredGetting Started: Ignite the Learning Adventure (5 minutes)
Kick off with a dynamic introduction to set the tone. Attendees will share their current use of technology and set goals. Engagement: Quick icebreaker to connect and energize the group.
Fable Forge: Shape Your Own Saga (8 minutes)
Learn to create personalized stories that capture student interest. Process: Participants craft a short saga, then engage in peer-to-peer sharing. Tactics: Device-based storytelling and group discussion.
FableForge Voices: Readers Recap and Review! (7 minutes)
Transform stories into podcasts using AI. Process: Attendees create a podcast segment and share. Tactics: Collaborative podcast creation, peer feedback, and discussions on classroom integration.
Lyrical Learning: Turn Your Readers into Rockstars (8 minutes)
Generate educational lyrics to enhance comprehension. Process: Create and share lyrics based on teaching content. Tactics: Collaborative lyric creation, peer-to-peer interaction, and music-based activities.
Text Tailor: Just Right, Just in Time (8 minutes)
Adjust texts to suit student needs. Process: Level a sample text, test comprehension with a partner, and discuss classroom use. Tactics: Device-based activities, peer review, and interactive text tailoring.
Twee Talks: Tiny Text, Big Conversation (7 minutes)
Simplify complex concepts into dialogues. Process: Create a dialogue for a key concept and share with the group. Tactics: Group brainstorming, collaborative dialogue writing, and sharing sessions.
CompreBot: Chat Your Way to Understanding (7 minutes)
Build AI chatbots for comprehension support. Process: Design simple chatbot interactions and share with small groups. Tactics: Device-based chatbot design, peer-to-peer sharing, and group discussions on implementation.
Literacy Illustrators: Bring Text to Life (8 minutes)
Animate student work to enhance understanding. Process: Create an animation and share with peers. Tactics: Device-based animation creation, collaborative feedback, and brainstorming for classroom applications.
Lyric Literacy: Reading to the Rhythm (8 minutes)
Create AI-generated songs that reinforce learning. Process: Compose a song based on a teaching concept and share. Tactics: Collaborative song creation, peer sharing, and discussions on integrating music into lessons.
Wrap-Up and Reflection: Taking the Magic Back to Your Classroom (4 minutes)
Conclude with a reflection on session takeaways and set goals for classroom integration. Process: Participants share one key strategy they plan to implement. Tactics: Group discussion, quick reflections, and Q&A.
Engagement Tactics Summary:
Throughout the session, frequent peer-to-peer interactions, device-based activities, and collaborative discussions will be used to keep participants actively engaged. Each segment includes hands-on creation, sharing, and feedback, ensuring participants leave with practical skills and ideas.
Text leveling is essential for providing students with reading materials suited to their skill level, thereby reducing frustration and enhancing comprehension. Research shows that reading texts with at least 95% accuracy is strongly associated with improved reading achievement. This alignment helps prevent students from being overwhelmed by complex texts or disengaged by overly simple ones, creating a more effective learning environment. https://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/0200-14.htm
Gonzalez, Jennifer. “What Are the Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts?” Cult of Pedagogy. Available at: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/leveled-texts/
Effective reading comprehension strategies, such as prompting questions, significantly improve students' ability to make connections, infer meanings, and engage deeply with texts. These techniques help students form mental representations of what they read, enhancing both retention and understanding. Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center Study on Comprehension. https://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/perfettilab/pubpdfs/2012_Reading%20comprehension%20(chapter)%20Adlof.pdf
Music and Reading Fluency:
Incorporating music and lyrics into education has been shown to support reading fluency and comprehension. Songs with rhythm and rhyme patterns help students internalize language structures, making texts more predictable and easier to read. This method also improves vocabulary retention and comprehension, as the rhythmic and melodic elements of music aid in memorization and contextual understanding. A study by SUNY College found that integrating music into reading instruction can enhance students' reading comprehension and create a positive learning atmosphere. https://soar.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12648/4976/ehd_theses/771/fulltext%20%281%29.pdf?sequence=1
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