Alternate Text for Handhelds in Learning

Using a word processor on the handheld like Word to Go, teachers can provide students with additional text sources for learning topics, leveled text for struggling readers, embedded questions within the text to help students with comprehension, or activities to explicitly mark the text using word processing formatting tools to increase understanding. Below are some alternate text sources submitted by teachers. Some are used with the lesson plans found at eCurriculum.
Civil War	Explicit Marking
A short passage about the surrender at Appomattox Court House and text about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln that can transferred to Word to Go or another word processor.	A poem called Slave's Dream which is separated into stanzas a provides a column to gather reader's interpretation and feedback.
Lincoln's first and second inaugural addresses	Poem called Attic by David Crawley with embedded questions to probe understanding.
Letters can be used to debate the ideas and views of "North" versus "South". A letter by Alex Cressler, Chambersburg May 17th, 1861 Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston, April 3^rd, 1862 Diary of a young rebel girl, February 1864 Letter from Sullivan, July 14, 1861 Samuel J. English's account of the Battle of Bull Run A tool for readers to record interpretation and views expressed in diaries and letters	Multiple choice questions embedded in text about saving the Liberty Bell.
	Text about the young inventor, Robert Fulton with embedded multiple choice questions to probe comprehension.



News story about the First Battle of Bull Run
The start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter
Secession letter for South Carolina and Mississippi