On the Trails

Directions for Students:

1. Open Firefox
2. Go to my web site - http://btcactus.org
3. Visit My Learning Center
4. Click on the Writing Tools Cactus (row 3 column C)
5. Click on the Alphabet Organizer
   1. Type in your first name only
   2. In the Title, type in AT Family
   3. Click OK
   4. Choose Option 2
      1. Click on the letter a and type in the word at
      2. Click on the letter b and type in the word bat
      3. Click on the letter c and type in the word cat
      4. Click on the letter f and type in the word fat
      5. Click on the letter h and type in the word hat
      6. Click on the letter m and type in the word mat
      7. Click on the letter p and type in the word pat
      8. Click on the letter r and type in the word rat
      9. Click on the letter s and type in the word sat
      10. Click on the letter v and type in the word vat

   Teacher Notes

   1. Objective with Verb from Bloom’s Taxonomy - Categorize words in AT word family.
   2. New York State Performance Indicator ELA1.E.LR1E: - Students make appropriate and effective use of strategies to construct meaning from print, such as prior knowledge about a subject, structural and context clues, and an understanding of letter-sound relationships to decode difficult words.
   3. Instructional Delivery Method - Desktop Computer Lab
   4. Lesson Launch Point - http://btcactus.org
   5. Assessment
      - How I will know students have categorized words with the AT sound - Students will print out their Alphabet Organizer, I will hand the papers out and then the students will use a light colored crayon to highlight the AT sound.

Buffalo State Students - in order for you to prove to me that you completed the work above, please complete these steps Click on the Print Screen button on your keyboard (look at the top right hand side of the keyboard) Open a word processing document (e.g. Microsoft Word, Open Office…) Right Click anywhere on the white part of your screen and choose paste Save the document as an .rtf (rich text file format) If you are using Microsoft Office 2007, the file will be saved as a .docx. I do not have Microsoft Office 2007 on any of the machines I work with at school or at home - so I can’t open it and will not accept that file format. (This is one of the reasons why I love open source products). If you don’t know how to save a file in .rtf format, email me and I will point you in the right direction) Print Screen/Save in Rich Text Format Tutorial Send it to me as an attachment to my email address - shive6@gmail.com Gmail Attachment Tutorial