Develop a lesson plan with measurable objectives that incorporate reading-comprehension concepts such as inference, main idea, comparing and contrast, fact and opinion, and vocabulary building.
Gather reading materials that focus on the key concepts from the lesson plan. Create working copies of the documents because you will be writing on them.
Point the doc cam's projector toward a white board or projection screen.
Turn on the camera and projector and place a document face-up on the projection surface.
Focus the doc cam, referring to the projected image of the document and moving the machine's lens closer or further away from the document as necessary. The doc cam may have an automatic focus feature that eliminates this step.
Highlight or underline the main idea of the story. Using a different colored highlighter or pen, number items in a list. Using a third color, circle vocabulary words that need defined or clarified. Answer any comprehension questions that accompany the story.
Develop well-written sentences using the circled vocabulary words from Step 6. Write on a separate piece of paper, using the doc cam to project the image as you create, revise and edit the sentences, allowing students to witness part of the writing process as well as develop reading-comprehension skills.