Name __Megan Smith, Mitzi Helms, Marion Crombie_ Date October 10, 2011/Revised October 14, 2011; 11/13/11

Class/Subject: FRIT7230 Teachers: Dr. Downs, Dr. Green

Storyboard

#1 TITLE SLIDE

“A Million Words: What teachers can use to encourage student reading”

#2 CLOSE UP SHOTS:

Little girl reading; Mackenzie reading

AUDIO: children’s voices reading the quotes

TIME: 1 minute

PURPOSE: to introduce research re: reading in order to motivate teachers

#3 CLOSE UP SHOT OF MITZI HELMS and then PAN OUT to show the TEACHER(s) WHO ARE BEING TRAINED

Mitzi Helms will introduce herself and the training session then will lead the teachers in a discussion about problems involving parents in the reading process

TIME: 2 minutes

#4 CLOSE UP SHOT OF MITZI

Sentence: MITZI & TEACHERS: Many of our parents don’t read well, but research shows that children who read with their parents and who read independently for just 15 minutes a day will read a million words in a year! What a great goal, but we’ve all experienced problems getting parents involved with reading to their children. Let’s discuss these problems first.

MITZI: Several resources can overcome these problems for your kids and their parents. Today we will look at three ideas: parents reading with their children; high school students reading with children; and using software to read with children. First, let’s take a look at a parent reading with her child

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#5 Symbol:

Shot of parent and child reading a book together

TIME: 30 seconds

#6 ANTONIO reads to children. Close-ups and pan the room.

Time: 2 minutes

#7 MITZI summarizes the benefit of using older students

#8 MITZI introducing online tools to help parents read

CLOSE UP

Parent reads and shows the book to the child

ANTONIO reads and interacts with children

Sentence: Of course, in a perfect world, all parents would know how to read and would take the time to read to their children every day. In our school, some parents can’t read well enough to read to their children. So we can use our high school and college students to read to our classes. These young people encourage K-3 students to get involved with reading.

MITZI: We can definitely use technology to help our students begin to read independently. I use a program call RAZ-KIDS which allows students to read, to hear the story read to them, and to record themselves reading a story.

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#9 MITZI – CLOSE UP of RAZ-KIDS icons

#10 MITZI – CLOSE UP of Mackenzie using RAZ-KIDS to read “When I Grow UP”

Headset, microphone

2 minutes

#11 MITZI & TEACHERS

Discussion about the 3 methods of encouraging students to read

2 minutes

#12 MITZI – CLOSE up and/or shot including teachers

Sentence:

MITZI: Let’s take a look at what a child will see when he uses RAZ-KIDS, and how a parent can use it with the child, even if the parent is not a good reader

MITZI: Mackenzie will demonstrate how a student uses RAZ-KIDS to record himself reading.

MITZI: What do you think about these 3 methods of encouraging our students to read? And which one do you think will be most successful?

MITZI: In addition to helping students and their parents read, online programs also track the time students use the program to read; give the students quizzes and feedback; and track the student’s progress.

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MITZI & the whole room

#16 MITZI

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MITZI:The teacher must show the parents how to login. The children login to the program at school, so they can log in for their parents. Teachers can also Print letter to parents and RAZ login cards and send home with parents

MITZI: The program will print awards for the students as they make progress and will automatically move them up a level

MITZI: RAZ-KIDS reads the story to the child, shows the child and parent how to read, gives the child a quiz, and even records the child reading the story

MITZI: Children should read 15 minutes every day outside of school. Like we’ve seen, reading with their parents is a great way to encourage reading, and reading with teenagers makes reading more exciting. And finally, using a computer program to help parents read with their children, will even give the child rewards for reading. And the big reward for the child? He can increase independent reading and before you know it, the child has read an extra MILLION WORDS IN A YEAR.

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