Build Literacy with Creative Technology in the Primary Grades

A combination of focused activities and creative, open-ended technology projects can help you take a new approach to building literacy with your primary learners.

The Building Literacy with Technology in Primary guide provides articles, samples, and lessons to find new ideas and approaches to engage your students in building skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

In the Building Literacy with Technology in Primary guide you will explore:

• Engaging new readers and writers with creative technologies
• Using digital storytelling in the primary classroom
• Inspiring every student to be an author

The guide includes lesson plans where students:

• Explore initial sounds through the creation of a classroom ABC book.
• Learn to write using alliteration and create illustrations that support and reflect their writing.
• Practice writing and illustrating as they create a page in your class’s adaptation of their favorite pattern story.
• Write a letter to their parents, or classroom teacher, to persuade them to get a new pet, supporting their opinion with reasons and examples.
• Research an animal and create a riddle to showcase their knowledge and engage other students in the natural world.
• Create a book review on a card or 3D cube to help others choose books they will enjoy.
• Learn about the haiku poetry form and write and illustrate their own haiku poems.
• Write how-to stories about getting ready for school and publish them to share with their families and to use at home.

These articles, lessons, and strategies engage students through creative technology to maximize student literacy skills.