1. A Technology Enhanced Read-Aloud By Julie Crego Given in Mrs. McLean’s 2 nd grade class at Riverview Elementary

3. Book Choice I chose the book Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood because not only is this one of my favorite children’s picture story books, but I also feel that when the reader looks closely at the illustrations, they can really tell more about what is going on in the text, and understand the story much better.

4. Before Reading Before we viewed the PhotoStory that I had created, I asked the students about how they thought that pictures helped them to understand the books which they read. I asked them about the shared reading story we were reading as a class, and the books they were reading in their guided reading groups. Before I turned on the PhotoStory, I told the students to be paying particular attention to how the pictures helped the story—what were some things that they noticed in the pictures that weren’t said in the text?

5. During Reading I took photos of the actual pictures from the book, wrote the text over them, and recorded my voice reading the story. I made sure to have the PhotoStory zoom in on the pictures that I wanted the students to pay more attention to.

6. During Reading If the text was particularly long for a certain page, I would put the picture up twice, focusing on different parts of the picture. I think that repeating the picture from a different focal point helped them to see how pictures could help the text.