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Have you used Read, Write, Think Interactives with your students? ReadWriteThink.org is a division of The International Reading Association and the National Council for the Teachers of English. The site houses a wealth of ideas, lessons, and activities designed to enhance any K-!2 literacy curriculum.
This week I was teaching plot diagraming. There’s an app for that! Go to this link to find the student interactive. Once students fill in the graphic organizer, they can print it out or save it as a pdf. My students will be adding plot diagrams to their next book talk presentation.
The other interactive I used was the Word Mover. Students can create found poems from the words of famous speeches such as “I Have a Dream” and “The Gettysburg Address.”
Here is a poem from Vannisa using Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words.
One day this nation
will dream that,
all men had meaning
and are true.The great activity
of the creative soul
must not allow violence.We shall always pledge
peace to our world,
and justice
to our nation.–Vannisa
Andrew Raupp contacted me about a conferring app he and his wife have developed. If you are using Evernote, you may be interested to see what Chronicle can offer you. Go to this link to see his presentation.
“Show, don’t tell.” If you teach writing, you’ve probably used this phrase before. But so often we as teachers don’t take our own advice when it comes to our conferring notes.
What if a teacher-centric app existed, which allowed multiple photos, audio recordings, and video recordings to be associated with each conferring note, be it with individuals or small groups? Good news – there is!
Chronicle, developed by husband and wife teachers, is a cutting-edge iPad app harnessing the multimedia technology of the iPad, raising conferring notes to a whole new level. Think of the possibilities: capture audio recordings of a student’s fluency and reading rate, use video recordings of book discussions to provide rich feedback, snap pictures of student “before and after” writing samples.
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These are wonderful tools, Margaret! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for these tools Margaret. If you aren’t aware of Lisa Highfill check her out at @lhighfill. She does some amazing digital work. Here’s a link to one of her tutorials. She has so much really worth checking out her twitter feed! Look at this site It has a wealth of information you might want to try! https://sites.google.com/a/googleteacheracademy.com/2014-07-30/agenda/room3
Julieanne
Margaret, you are always providing your students with avenues to have technology intersect literacy in seamless ways. I loved what your children produced. Once again I was all set to write a post for DigiLit Sunday when my heat went out during another cold snap. The inside of my house is still colder than the outside but positivity must reign regardless.