This document summarizes a lesson on recycling and the long u sound using the story "June Robot Cleans Up" from the Treasures reading program. The teacher used a Promethean Board to display the story during a shared reading activity. Students highlighted words containing the long u sound as the class read together. The technology engaged the students and allowed the teacher to assess their understanding of the target sound.

1. By Karalee Buckhoff
IP&T 287

2. Shared Reading

Lesson on
Recycling
 Using the story,
“June Robot
Cleans Up” from
Treasures

3. Core Standard

◦ First Grade Language Arts Standard
4; Objective 1; Indicator c: Identify
and pronounce sounds for short and
long vowels using patterns (e.g., vc,
vcv, cvc, cvvc, cvcv, cvc-silent e), and
vowel digraphs (e.g., ea, ee, ie, oa,
ai, ay, oo, ow) accurately in words.

4. Students will learn the
sound that the letter u
makes when a silent e is
added and will be able to
read with better prosody.

5. The Promethean Board

6. Technology Used
Treasures CDROM in laptop hooked up to
Promethean Board

7. After giving a short review on recycling,

which the children had previously learned
about, I brought up the June Robot story on
the Promethean Board.
We read the story together in a shared

reading activity.
I read some pages modeling prosody as I

read. The children read the other pages.

8. Students came up

and highlighted
words in the story
that contained the
long u sound using
the Promethean
board.

9. The Promethean Board and CDROM worked very well.

My teacher had not been familiar with using the

board and I was able to help her learn how to use it.
The students were excited and remained engaged

throughout the whole lesson.
The technology greatly helped the visual learners in

my classroom to stay on track.
If I were to do this again, I would try to face my

students more as I read so I could manage the
classroom better.

10. Student Use of Technology

◦ Although I remained in control of the reading
experience, the students became actively
engaged in the lesson.
◦ They were able to come up and highlight words
in the actual story using the pen on the
Promethean Board which they greatly enjoyed.
◦ I was also able to assess their understanding of
the long u sound based upon what they
highlighted.

11. Technology Use is Essential

◦ In this shared reading lesson, the
technology was essential to the learning
process.
◦ Technology was the focus of the lesson as
we read the story from the board.
◦ My assessment was also based upon the
technology used as the students
highlighted words.

12. Focus on Learning Task

◦ The Promethean Board was necessary for the
students to meet the learning objectives.
◦ All students could see it and read at the same
time as I pointed to each word projected on the
board so students were engaged in a successful
shared reading activity.
◦ Students were able to improve their prosody as
well as their understanding of the long u sound
as they highlighted such words on the board.

13. Focus on Learning Task

◦ There was minimal time needed to explain
how to use the technology since we used
the technology as a class.
◦ They only instruction necessary was to
show students how to use the pen to
highlight the words.

14. Added Value

◦ The lesson could have been done without the
use of the Promethean Board as students all
had copies of the story in their Treasures
books.
◦ Because we used the Promethean board,
students were able to read all together which
is the purpose of a Shared Reading activity.
◦ Students remained engaged since the text
was more attractive and visual on the board.

15. Added Value

◦ Without the use of the Promethean Board,
I would not have been able to assess the
students’ understanding of the long u
sound through the highlighting.
◦ The students also would not have been
able to read at exactly the same time since
I could not guide them in their reading as
there was no projected text.