Use these sites to help you plan for using
technology in your class.
Preparing for extended constructed response from Conroe ISD Literacy team and this link is an audio overview.
Resources from Conroe ISD for STAAR Redesign: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H3lrbJpVsqWOBK9gNBh49LSMiglzIyWKuMYA40VNWVo/edit
Reading Response Choice Board from Caitlyn Tucker: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L_nbhosJJ00pkulWduJfZylw0um9j726bHologRIvhU/edit
The literacy Shed: providing teachers with high quality film shorts and animations that can be used in the primary classroom to enhance the teaching of reading and writing.
List of Nonfiction articles for unit on nonfiction writing.
Newsela: current events articles, and you can change the reading level https://newsela.com/
Smithsonian Magazine for Students/ Teachers- nonfiction articles (This used to be called TweenTribune) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/category/teachers/
Primary Sources from Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/programs/teachers/getting-started-with-primary-sources/
Video showing ideas for using Google Apps in the ELA classroom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBYMlm1Zyjc
Google Applied Digital Skills: This is a great site to use when you want to help students develop their Google Drive skills at the same time they are working on TEKS! https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/en/curriculum.html?audience=3&sort=popularity
One Minute Papers: One-Minute Papers are a learning and teaching strategy where the learners are asked one or two quick but deep questions on the material covered.http://www.edutopia.org/blog/design-thinking-one-minute-papers-ashley-nahornick
TV411: resource for intriguing videos lessons that engage viewers and relate to reading/writing/vocabulary: http://www.tv411.org/
Feedback Templates: use these for getting students to reflect on learning:
3-2-1 Self Reflection template
2 Stars and a Wish Peer Feedback
TAG Method Peer Feedback Template
Shout-Out Notes for Peer Feedback
Want a simple time line maker? Here’s one from Read, Write, Think: https://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/timeline
Here’s a review and link to Tiki-Toki, another timeline tool:
StoryNory: a website with free audio stories to read/ have read to the user: http://www.storynory.com/?utm_source=TechNotes+09-17-13&utm_campaign=TechNotes+09.17.13&utm_medium=email
The BookSifter is a website that filters free ebooks on Amazon:
http://www.freebooksifter.com/?c=5
Storyline Online: Great online audio books- actors read aloud popular children’s books:
Teach Your Monster to Read: a website that is game based to help young students learn to read:
Google Earth for Educators- all grade levels, and all subjects:
http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/
Free Rice site: Vocabulary Game that also provides food through the U.N. food program. https://freerice.com/
Bean Bean Bean: Vocabulary Game that also provides food through converting “beans” to a dollar figure, and that is donated to charity. https://beanbeanbean.com/
Wonderopolis: Site that encourages curiosity and wondering- Has a “wonder of the day” and a search box to help you find info to match with a lesson you are teaching. https://wonderopolis.org/wonders
Podcasts:
Google Arts and Culture: hard to describe because there is a wealth of information here! Teachers should find a direct link to the topic she/he wants to use, and use that in class, not recommended to use “free time.”
Virtual Field Trips from Google Expeditions: now part of the Google Arts and Culture site, this is a great resource when you want to explore historical fiction locations or non-fiction locations.
Neighborhood Picnic Breakout Room: Students try to “break out” of the puzzle by answering the questions and using the clues to open the locks.
School Daze Breakout Room: see above
Typing.com: typing practice!
Readworks: reading passages and comprehension development https://www.readworks.org/
iPad Apps:
Museums of the World: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/museums-of-the-world/id546315167?mt=8