Phase+II

Phase 2: Determine Relative Advantage Some students find reading comprehension boring, tedious or irrelevant and they have trouble attending to reading tasks. We believe that using technology-based methods will engage students and lead to deeper understanding and reading comprehension.

In our instructional unit we would like to address the problem of reading comprehension, specifically students connecting text to the real world or self.A technology-based method offers several solutions to this problem with sufficient relative advantages.We would estimate that the impact of this instructional unit and the use of technology to teach reading comprehension would be significant.We hope students would read more, become more excited about reading and form more meaningful connections between the text and self.

Although planning for this unit takes much more effort on the part of the teacher than just regular lesson planning, we believe it is well worth the effort.The expense for this unit would be minimal as long as the students have access to computers and the internet.