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Deborah Kozdras
| Name | Deborah Kozdras |
| Location | Plant City, Florida |
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"ReadWriteThink.org is by far the best Internet teaching resource to use with my preservice teachers."
After teaching elementary school for 11 years in Ontario Canada, Deborah Kozdras enrolled as a PhD student at the University of South Florida, where she currently works as a graduate assistant, teaching courses in reading and language arts. She also runs workshops for preservice and inservice teachers in the use of digital technologies in literacy.
Deborah is one of the managing editors of the Journal of Reading Education published by the Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading, one of the International Reading Association's (IRA) special interest groups. She is cochair for membership of that organization and is an IRA member. Deborah has presented at a variety of literacy conferences, including IRA, the National Reading Conference, and the College Reading Association. Deborah's research focuses on the use of new technologies in literacy. ReadWriteThink.org lessons figure prominently in her instruction and research projects.
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Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip
3, 2, 1... Blast off! Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon, read-alouds, creating a picture dictionary, and completing a final writing activity.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters
Students hit the hallways with their favorite pop culture characters in this lesson to photograph the characters in various situations and then write about the pictures in a pattern-book structure.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Gabbing About Garfield: Conversing About Texts With Comic Creator
Students will definitely get animated as they discuss comics’ features and designs, and they’re sure to enjoy the lesson’s punch line assignment: creating a comic strip of their own.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
Are your students easily fooled? You’ll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song’s lyrics that will end everyone’s day on a high note.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Once Upon a Link: A PowerPoint Adventure With Fractured Fairy Tales
What really happened to the three little pigs? Students will read and write fractured fairy tales. In composing and editing these tales, students focus on the six traits of writing.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Recording Readers Theatre: Developing Comprehension and Fluency With Audio Texts
Students investigate audio texts of mystery stories, evaluate them in terms of both literary and audio qualities, and create Readers Theatre scripts, which they use to record their own podcasts.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
Stories and snapshots of school-related experiences are the perfect sources of inspiration for students as they create PowerPoint presentations with the help of an older student.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Taking Photos of Curious George: Exploring Character Through Images
Students will be monkeying around in this lesson when they create a digital class book in which they imagine what Curious George would do if he visited their school.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
From "once upon a time" to "happily ever after," students learn to recognize story structure in fairy tales and create a logical sequence of events when writing original stories.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Teaching Shapes Using Read-Alouds, Visualization, and Sketch to Stretch
Visual clues in winter-themed books used in this lesson encourage students to make real-world math connections.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Using Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Critical Thinking
Students learn that dogs are more than just pets in this lesson, which teaches them to use research and vocabulary-acquisition strategies to learn and write about working dogs.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.
