Language+Arts


 * Subject: Language Arts **



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 * **Technology: **
 * Graphic Organizer Software: Inspiration
 * **Curriculum standard: **
 * 6th Grade: Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies: Select, create and use graphic organizers to interpret textual information.
 * **Description: **
 * T he students will use the Inspiration software to compare and contrast folktales from around the world. For example, the students could read //The Baba Yaga // from Russia by Aleksandr Afanasyev and //Rashin-Coati// from Scotland. The students will read the two stories and complete a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the two. The teacher will supply different pairs of stories to work with.
 * **Supporting research: **
 * A paper, available from the ERIC database, gives an overview of Inspiration software and discusses how Inspiration can be used in a classroom to help students with concept mapping.
 * APA citation: Scappaticci, F. (2000). //Concept Mapping in the Classroom with Inspiration Software: Proceedings from the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference.// San Diego, CA.
 * **Tried and True or New and Innovative: **
 * **TT**: This activity is tried and true because Inspiration Software has been used in classrooms since the early 1990s.