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Recognizing and using individual sounds to create words, or phonemic
awareness.
Understanding the relationships between written letters and spoken
sounds,
or phonics.
Developing the ability to read a text accurately and quickly, or
reading
fluency. Children must learn to read words
from left to right rapidly and accurately in order to understand what
is
written.
Based on how Google ranks search results, typing in a question will be more likely to bring back pages with a question for a title.
So I have students write down their questions and teach them how to mark them up to create queries, the first step being to identify the significant words.
Nouns frequently make good search terms, so students can start by drawing the people, places, and things in their questions.
Standards 9.2.1.1-9: Understand the Concept of Function . . . Standards: Research Process, Technology Use Overview: Students use the Bureau of Labor's web site to find typical rates of pay for ten different jobs, convert figures to dollars per hour, and create a bar graph of the results.