Natasha Sheldon

Sheldon’s innovative teaching idea, “Digital Storytelling Unit,” focuses on addressing the deficits in the student population’s reading ability, oral language development, background knowledge, and access to books, through interactive and engaging digital storytelling. The Voya grant will provide the resources needed to offer students multiple technology devices for the use of digital storytelling, including tablets, computers, and computer programs and software. Sheldon believes that through exposure to a variety of shared reading resources, students will be provided the tools necessary to build listening comprehension, character analysis, story elements, and writing skills.