Final Update!

Welcome Back All!!

You have followed along with us over the past four sessions of our inquiry project. We really appreciate your attention and interest in our project.

This is the final session in which we will be doing the research on our topic. We will be presenting all of our information and hopefully teaching others about what we have learned.

We started this inquiry project with a question: "why use reading apps within the classroom? And should those apps be targeted more towards the individual or the class?"

As future educators, we wanted to know how to help benefit students as they learn the basics of reading and understanding what they read. To find our answer, we looked at different academic articles and explored a variety of different apps that can be used in the classroom. 

After all of our research, we have found that we should use reading apps in the classroom. By using reading apps, we will be incorporating technology into the classroom. We will also be providing the students with a different way to learn reading comprehension, phonological and phonemic awareness, and as well as learning sight words and using levelled readers. 

Apps can be used by both individual students and whole class environments. Students can use apps for individuals to support their individual needs while whole groups can be engaged in conversation based on the apps that they are using. 

The research that we have completed has shown us that we should use these apps in a classroom, and we will be doing so in our future classrooms. 

We appreciate your support as we have completed this inquiry project. We are glad that you followed along and hope that you have learned something alongside us. 

- Rick, Leah, and Elizabeth