Literacy at your Fingertips

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Apps, Extensions, and Tools

Presentation link: goo.gl/2oQ6RR

#PLSummit2018

Digital Learning Coaches

Mark Kuske

@kuskeedu

YouTube Channel

Jo Jacobson

@ECCDigitalCoach

Google Certified Trainer

jacobsonj@district112.org

Jared VanAalsburg

vanaalsburgj@district112.org

Google Certified Teacher

@vanaalsburgj

Readworks

• Searchable Articles
• Assign an article (Google Classroom Integration
• Paired text
• Audio available
• Step reads - leveled texts
• Assessment options
• Focus on specific skills
• Article-A-Day (™)
• Book of Knowledge

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DOGOnews

• Leveled News Articles
• Science
• Social Studies
• Environment
• News
• Videos
• Read article out loud
• Assign Google Classroom
• Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Games

The Literacy Shed

• 1000’s of videos
• Divided into categories (sheds)
• Prompts included
• Downloadable
• Links to books for purchase

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Tween Tribune

• Daily articles for grades 1-12
• Take quizzes or post comments (teacher controlled)
• Scores delivered to teachers
• Student e-mails are not gathered or shared

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Newsela

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• Syncs with Google Classroom
• Leveled Articles
• Comprehension Quizzes (leveled)
• Text Sets & Units
• Power Words
• Annotatable
• Paid Version
• Units of study
• Student data

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Storybird

• Create your own stories with pictures
• Create your own class
• Leveled by grade level
• Poetry
• Share the link
• Cost to download or print

Smithsonian Educator-Language Arts

• Leveled by Grade
• All subjects
• Podcasting
• Creating Classroom museums
• Lesson plans (national standards)
• User reviews on each lesson
• K-12

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Wonderopolis

• Daily questions
• Variety of topics
• User driven
• Built in audio
• Built in dictionary
• Printable

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Wonderopolis

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g Network

• The Learning Network has lesson plans, activities, blogs, and more for students!
• Lesson plans that cover news stories
• All subjects

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New York Times Learning Network

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Fluency Tutor

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Implementing Video

• Reading passages for students
• Assign through Google Classroom
• Students can listen to the story
• Record student reading
• Lexiled passages

Online Voice Recorder - Quick & Easy Voice Recording Tool

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Ed Puzzle

• Sign in with Google
• Track students
• Add questions
• Add voice
• Use existing videos or create your own

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Ed Puzzle

AmericanLiterature.com

• Teacher Resources
• Short Stories
• Children's stories
• Novels
• Figurative Language

Lit 2 Go

• Books online
• Readability levels
• Sorted by authors, books, genres

TV 411

• Videos on reading skills
• Understanding what you read
• How to read newspaper
• Test preparation
• Summarizing
• Context Clues

Epic

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Free selection of books (in school) Netflix of reading

• Class code / no account needed
• Import students from Google Classroom
• Create and assign collections
• Create a profile for recommendations

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Literacynet.org

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• Archived Stories
• Activities=multiple choice, sequencing, vocabulary, word selection

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Storyline Online

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• Books read aloud by “famous people”.
• Videos
• Activity Guides
• Use closed captioning

Common Lit

• Grades 5-12
• Poems
• Reading Passages
• Historical documents
• Questions following passages
• Read text aloud and translation

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Reading-Summarizing

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Skim.IT

• Quickly summarize the website in a paragraph to see if you want to continue to read the page
• Reads the first couple of sentences of a website

Sentisum:smartsummarizer

• Reads the web article and presents you with a summary of most important information from the article.

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Chrome Extensions

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Reading - Purify Websites

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• Clean Print�
• Text Mode
• Minimalist
• Purify
• Read Mode
• AlphaText

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Chrome Extensions

Annotating

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Webpaint

• Draw shapes, lines, and add text to live web pages and take a screenshot

Awesome Screenshot

• Screencast, record screen as video.
• Screen capture for full page, annotate, blur sensitive info, and share with one-click uploads

Chrome Extensions

Accessibility

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BeeLine Reader

• Extension to help students with reading problems to track their reading. Makes it easier to focus while reading online.

Reading Ruler

• Highlights one line of text at a time

Visor

• Dims the screen except for a small part

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Awesome Screenshot

Chrome Extensions

Accessibility

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Select and Speak (formerly SpeakIt) ****

• Select your text, have it read

Announcify

• Have websites read to you! No selecting text

Read & Write

• Paid extension, tools for reading and writing
• Can use free with limited tools

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Chrome Extensions

Writing Help

Grammarly

• Grammarly will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful.

Ginger

• Perfect your English with Ginger Page – Contextual Grammar, Spell Checker, Synonyms, Translations and Dictionary! Online Tool doesn’t need an account

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Chrome Extensions

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Research Tools

Google Similar Pages

• Finds similar pages to the searched page
• Helps students focus research

TLDR

• Summarize articles and sites
• Too long didn’t read

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Google Dictionary

• Highlight and define

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Chrome Extensions

Reading Tools

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Spreed

• Increase your reading speed, without sacrificing your comprehension-Trainer

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Scrible

• App and extension
• Highlight & comment on websites
• Save to library
• Google sign in

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Chrome Extensions

Grammar and Writing

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IXL (free & paid)

• Practice exercises (7 free per day)
• Paid version - data and unlimited
• Skill focused with instant feedback / game-like (points & awards)

Elementary Grammar Exercise

• Simple rudimentary practice with instant feedback

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Grammar and Writing

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Quill

• over 300 writing, grammar, and proofreading activities
• Use as warm-up, practice or homework
• Google Classroom integration

Grammar and Writing

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Grammaropolis (paid)

• Schoolhouse Rock of the 21st Century
• Animated Characters & Story based
• Quizzes and assessments

No Red Ink (paid and free)

• Grades K-12
• Google Log-in for teachers
• Class Code for student accounts
• Diagnostics/variety of curriculum
• User friendly to build classes

Google Tools

Google Explore (research)

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Google Voice Typing

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Highlight and Search & Define (Right Click)

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Translate Document

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Revision History-Add on

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Overdrive

• Access to library books 24/7
• No overdue fees - instant return
• Just need a library card at a participating location

Online access to Library Books

Questions ?

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