Procedures

Goals:
Program:
• Develop user-friendly how-to guide for program leaders.
• Introduce iPod technology to elementary classrooms.
• Use audio format concurrently with physical literature book to
reinforce state standards and language arts strategies and skills.

Students:
• Follow the steps and routine in order to complete and collaborate
successfully.
• Read Independently.
• Listen to a story and have a literature discussion following with a
peer.
• Use technology to support reading comprehension.
• Improve Fluency.
• Use phonemic awareness to improve fluency.
• Gain meaning through pictures, context clues and phonics.
• Make connections.
• Visualize.
• Explain the Author’s Purpose.
• Compare and Contrast.
• Identify Cause and Effect.
• Make Predictions.
• Make inferences.
• Identify Point of View.
• Ask questions.
• Monitor and Clarify.
• Identify plot, setting and characters.
• Identify the main idea.
• Identify beginning, middle and ending. (Sequence)
• Answer: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
• Draw conclusions.

Teachers:
• Use English Language Arts standards to align curriculum,
organization and instruction.
• Provide guidance to ensure understanding.
• Address a range of reading levels and learners utilizing the
resources.
• Reinforce curriculum goals and themes with content shared.
• Provide positive feedback.
• Emphasize the goal of students becoming fluent by 3rd grade.

2010 Listening to Literacy Grow

Nicole McFadden
 Mini-Lessons:
Listening to Literacy Grow Program
Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: 2nd
Prepared By: Nicole McFadden

Overview & Purpose:

Introduce the Listening to Literacy Grow program, how it works and its
goals to the student body.

Educational Standards Addressed:

• 1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies
• 1.2 Ask for clarification and explanation of stories and ideas.
• 1.3 Paraphrase information that has been shared orally by others.

Materials:
• iPod
• Headphones
• Children’s Literature Books
• Literature Discussion Cards

Objectives:
(Skills & information learned)
• Introduce the program and myself by sharing the blog, goals and
introducing materials utilized during the project.

Resources:
(Book, web, Ect.)
• Materials

Information:
(Demonstrate necessary content)
• Introduce myself, the Listening to Literacy Grow project, sharing the
blog and introducing materials utilized during the project.

Verification:
(Steps to confirm understanding)
• Hand out Participant Letters.
Activity:
(Reinforce information independently or partnered)
• Design a logo for the Listening to Literacy Grow Project.

2010 Listening to Literacy Grow

Nicole McFadden
 iPod Use & Care
Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: 2nd
Prepared By: Nicole McFadden

Overview & Purpose:

Familiarize students with the buttons and functionality of an iPod.
Introduce the steps used to access audio and properly turn on and off. Use
sanitizing wipes to clean and buttons and headphones before putting away
in storage bag.

Educational Standards Addressed:

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies 2.1 Use titles, tables of contents, and chapter headings
1.4 Give and follow three-and four-step oral directions. to locate information.
2.0 Reading Comprehension

Objectives:
• Build familiarity with buttons of iPod.
• Learn and review steps for turning on and off.
• Clean all materials with a sanitizing wipe.

Materials:
• iPod • Storage Bag
• Headphones • Sanitizing wipes
• iPod Information Sheet

Resources:
• iPod Information Sheet • Materials

Information:
• iPod Information Sheet

Verification:
• Each student will have a few moments to utilize the iPod and review
steps and procedures first hand.
Activity:
• Orally review and ask questions about the steps and procedures
practiced.

2010 Listening to Literacy Grow

Nicole McFadden
Name:_______________________________________ Date:____________________
iPod

CLICK WHEEL Operation:

• Move your thumb around the outside circle in a clockwise or counter

clockwise circle to select menu items.
• To select item press the CENTER BUTTON.

Steps to turn ON:

1. Switch the Hold Button off.
2. Press any button on the Click Wheel to turn the iPod on.
3. Press MENU.
4. Select MUSIC, AUDIO BOOK or PODCAST.
5. Select PLAYLIST.
6. Select title and or chapter of the book in use.
7. Prepare to listen and push PLAY.

Steps to turn OFF:

1. Press and hold PLAY/PAUSE button.
2. Slide the HOLD switch to reveal the orange bar.

2010 Listening to Literacy Grow

Nicole McFadden
 Literature Discussions & Prompt Cards
Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: 2nd
Prepared By: Nicole McFadden

Overview & Purpose:

Introduce literature discussion prompt cards. Teach strategies for using
questions and prompts as a focus for real conversation.

Educational Standards Addressed:

2.0 Reading Comprehension
2.1 Use titles, tables of contents, and chapter headings to
locate information in expository text.
2.2 State the purpose in reading (i. e., tell what
information is sought).
2.3 Use knowledge of the author's purpose( s) to
comprehend informational text.
2.4 Ask clarifying questions about essential
textual elements of exposition [e.g., why, what if, how].
2.5 Restate facts and details in the text to clarify and
organize ideas.
2.6 Recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a text.
2.7 Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and
graphs.
2.8 Follow two-step written instructions.
3.0. Literary Response and Analysis
3.1 Compare and contrast plots, settings, and characters
presented by different authors.
3.2 Generate alternative endings to plots and identify the
reason or reasons for, and the impact of, the alternatives.
3.3 Compare and contrast different versions of the same
stories that reflect different cultures.
3.4 Identify the use of rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration in
poetry.

Objectives:
• Talk about their books daily in small groups.
• Help students learn to think about the books they read, and to ask
questions about books shared by other students.
• Become motivated readers.
• Begin conversations with the use of prompts.
Materials:
• Listening to Literacy Grow Prompt Cards
Resources:
• Students • Materials
Information:
• Random use of cards to promote discussions and generate
conversations about the literature content and readers viewpoints.
Verification:
• Practice selecting cards and beginning discussions.
Activity:
Discussion.
• Compare and Contrast sharing about recess and sharing about a
book.
• Does sharing create lasting memories? At recess? After Reading?
• Do we enjoy hearing about others experiences? Why or why not?
• Discuss goals and outcomes from learning what others read about.
Summary & Notes:
• Begin with a few prompts, and then ask your students to add others
that they feel would stimulate conversation.

2010 Listening to Literacy Grow

Nicole McFadden
 Materials

Headphones
iPod Children’s Literature Books

Disinfectant Wipes Discussion Prompt Cards

• Computer with iTunes installed.

• Audio Books Downloaded into iTunes.

• iPod Charger.

• USB cord for iPod downloading and syncing.

2010 Listening to Literacy Grow

Nicole McFadden