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Direct linkGill, Sharon Ruth – Reading Teacher, 2007
Knowing the meanings of common root words, prefixes, and suffixes may help students read and spell the longer words they begin to run into in the upper elementary grades. This article describes how students can use the Kidspiration computer program to quickly and easily create word webs that illustrate the meanings of common root words and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Morphemes
Peer reviewedScott, Diana; Barker, Jeanne – Reading Teacher, 1987
Focuses on the selection and evaluation of courseware for use with a reading program. Gives examples of courseware to support the ideas presented, together with a sample checklist for software evaluation. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Decision Making, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedWepner, Shelley B. – Reading Teacher, 1992
Uses teachers' initiatives in 3 content areas--social studies, science, and mathematics--to highlight how 13 software packages are and can be used to support instruction. (PRA)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBalajthy, Ernest – Reading Teacher, 1987
Offers some suggestions for using a microcomputer in class when only one work station is available. (JC)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Peer reviewedBalajthy, Ernest – Reading Teacher, 1987
Notes two trends in the development of basal-related software and describes the Scott, Foresman Reading Courseware and the Ginn Reading Software. (JC)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedWepner, Shelley B. – Reading Teacher, 1991
Introduces a new column written for the one-computer classroom and offers several perspectives for connecting software applications to trade book reading. Describes eight software packages for extending and enhancing students' reading of different genres: fairy tales, realistic fiction, science fiction, and biography and historical fiction in…
Descriptors: Biographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Selection, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedIsaak, Troy; Joseph, John – Reading Teacher, 1989
Encourages reading teachers to create their own instructional software, using recent advances in authoring systems which have made teacher-constructed microcomputer lessons instructionally viable. (MG)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBalajthy, Ernest – Reading Teacher, 1987
Discusses the need for and the problems with teaching keyboarding to elementary school students, and the types of software necessary for meaningful instruction. (JC)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Peer reviewedDeGroff, Linda – Reading Teacher, 1990
Comments on six points of belief commonly held by whole language teachers. Considers how computers can facilitate teaching and learning in ways that are consistent with those points of belief. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHeffron, Kathleen – Reading Teacher, 1986
Explains how word processing can make it easy for students to adapt and improve text until they are happy with the results. Offers an example of word processing in action. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedWepner, Shelley B. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes how computers, when cast in a holistic framework, can be a natural complement to students' literacy development. Discusses how six teachers use computers in holistic literacy instruction. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Educational Technology, Elementary Education
