iPad / Tablet Interactive Reading Station Lab

Using the indicators from the Common Core Standards and State adaptations of the standards, students will use technological tool to build, strengthen, and enhance schema.
Common Core Standards : (Reading/Language)(List is introductory)
RI.K.4: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
RL.K.5: Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
RF.K.2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes.
RF.K.2(a): Recognize and produce rhyming words.
W.K.1: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is…).
SL.K.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about Kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
SL.K.1(a): Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns talking about the topics and texts under discussion).
L.K.5: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5(a): Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

Common Core Standards: (Math) (List is expansive)
Counting and Cardinality
Know number names and the count sequence.
Count to tell the number of objects.
Compare numbers.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.

Number and Operations in Base Ten
Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value.

Measurement and Data
Describe and compare measurable attributes.
Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category

Geometry
Identify and describe shapes.
Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.

Mathematical Practices
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Step 1:
Teacher introduces several mini-lessons on tool usage
Step 2:
In small focus groups, teacher guides students through lessons of introduction, practice, and extension of tool usage related to above standards and activities over several lesson sessions.
Step 3:
Teacher assesses usage of tool through student demonstration of usage and application to lessons.

Lessons will be individualized to student needs determined by assessment data for reteaching. Differentiation by student acquisition of intended learning will be determined through individual assessment of tool and its impact on student learning.