Dianna Rucker

Female

Iowa

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Reading Specialist 5-12th grade
Website
http://readingteacher.ning.com
Skype Account
diannarucker
About Me
I am currently my districts reading specialist for grades 5-12. I teach a high school second chance reading class so am always looking for ideas for read alouds from short stories. I also have 7th and 8th grade reading exploratory and am looking for ideas for those students also. I have small groups of 5-8th grade students who are struggling readers.

Comment Wall:

  • Grace Kat

    Hi Dianna, earlier this term an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher shared with our staff a Microsoft Photostory her students had worked on the previous term where they added their oral stories to some photographs they had taken. Great for language development.

    Jun 11, 2008

  • Grace Kat

    This is a shortened version of the link to the page on Microsoft on Photostory - http://tinyurl.com/4f869 . It can be downloaded for free (used on PCs).

    http://tinyurl.com/6e33th is the link to Langwitches' blog which is a tutorial on how to use Photostory. http://tinyurl.com/a26n8 is a link to the microsoft tutorial.
    Hope this helps.

    Jun 11, 2008

  • Dianna Rucker

    thanks

    Jun 11, 2008

  • Dianna Rucker

    problem is I have a mac

    Jun 11, 2008

  • Grace Kat

    You're lucky to have a mac - I started on one but school is all PC.. I think you could do something similar with the slideshow tool available on the mac (is it keynote?) as you can add print, audio and photos.

    Jun 12, 2008