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Reading: Ages 15+

Remix: Using Today's Technology

To Inspire Teen Readers

 

            Today's Snack: Let's use a high-tech cooking tool for today's snack. The microwave oven has NOT been around forever, people! It's one of the newest technical inventions to help food preparation. Some people think the microwave does a better job cooking bacon than the old-fashioned skillet. Why not cook up two or three pieces of bacon, and put them on toast with a leaf of lettuce and a couple of slices of tomato? Then let us know your technical opinion.

 

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Supplies:

http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/Books/BK800.aspx

 

 

Here's a great guide on using the technology that surrounds today's teenager to capture that older reader's interest and get him or her into reading and creating text.

 

Song lyrics . . . video . . . music . . . flip cameras . . . audio clips . . . this book will give any after-school instructor or parent a wide range of ideas for the student whose technology tastes have left dusty, old books behind, but who still wants the timeless advantages of reading and the worlds it opens up for you.

 

 

By Susan Darst Williams www.AfterSchoolTreats.com Reading © 2010

 

 

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