Cartwheels on the Keyboard

Computer-Based Literacy Instruction in an Elementary Classroom

Maureen Carroll

“Reflection points and classroom vignettes provide insight and inspiration.”
— School Library Journal

Imagine new instructional possibilities, try new classroom activities, and question your own teaching-learning process through the use of computers to support your students’ literacy growth.

Maureen Carroll shares her study of how one teacher and her elementary-grade students integrated computer-based literacy instruction into the curriculum, and shows the diverse ways in which computers both foster and hinder literacy development. You’ll find helpful lessons for integrating computer use in your own classroom, as well as “Reflection Points” and classroom vignettes to provoke thought and discussion.

An IRA Book Club selection, June 2004