Electronic Reading Support Programs
The Primary Library is adding an online reading support program to our repertoire. Teachers who join this workshop series will evaluate several programs and make a recommendation to administration. Scheduling will be worked out to everyone’s satisfaction as attendance at all 3 monthly workshops is required. Teachers will be asked to test the two top rated programs with students.
These programs may offer the following types of support: motivational learning games, charting student growth, checking comprehension, supporting fluency, offering an expanded digital classroom, and phonics work. Examples of Use: home support, independent practice, guided practice, added repetition, small group work, whole group instruction through display. This is an exciting resource that will be so helpful, especially for students with slow growth, reluctance, or memory issues. Please join this practical workshop where you’ll become aware of what technology is doing in the reading world AND have a chance to make a critical decision.
Meeting 1
Task
Rubric
Assignments of the big 5
Meeting 2
Presentations of the big 5
Comparisons and sorting
Wittling to Big 2 : Consideration of 2-3 building shift
Meeting 3
Kid Reviews
Selection Discussion
Area schools:
Bloomfield: Tumblebooks, RAZkids and Capstone Interactive
Palmyra: Bookflix, RAZkids and Earobics
Newark: TumbleBooks
North Rose Wolcott Elementary School : RAZkids
NY Public: Tumblebooks and Bookflix
HFL: Lexia
Rochester: Lexia
Wayne: Lexia
Attributes
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4
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3
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2
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1
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Phonemic Awareness
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Includes
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None
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Phonics
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Includes
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None
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Leveled Texts
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Includes
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Exists but needs modification
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None: skip next 4 rows
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Read-to
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Natural voice, choice of phrased-highlighting
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Includes either
Robot voice or only whole sentence highlighting
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Robot voice AND whole sentence highlighting
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None
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Quantity of Library
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Includes more than a dozen titles per level
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Includes between 6-12 titles per level
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Includes up to 6 titles per level
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None
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Quality of Library
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Gorgeous, look “real”
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Look homegrown
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Beyond basic
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Check Comprehension
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Quizzes are appropriate, have read-to, allow student to type answers, review text for answers, are printable, and recordable online.
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?
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?
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None
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Games
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Awesome review potential
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Weak educational value
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Only 1-2 or unappealing
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None
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Home access
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Yes
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No
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Chart student growth
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Yes, easy to import class lists, easy for teacher to access, amazing data that would support instruction/evaluation
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Yes, but not functionally easy, but good data
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Yes but lame data, unlikely to be of use
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No
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Student interaction
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Students can leave reviews, blogs, or write teacher messages: ability to create an “online learning” experience
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No
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Student Use
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Whole Class
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Small Group
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Solo
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Infrequent solo, out of class or strictly at home
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5 to be considered:
http://www.earobics.com/solutions/tour.php
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bookflixfreetrial/programoverview.htm
http://www.lexialearning.com/files/products/ScopeSequence.pdf
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/about_tumblebooks.asp
http://www.raz-kids.com/main/ViewPage/name/sample
FREE :
http://www.abcmouse.com/schools
http://earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
http://pbskids.org/go/games/?campaign=go_gamesarrow#/allgames/
http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.funbrain.com/index.html
http://pbskids.org/lions/
http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
http://kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/littlekids/games.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/student-activities
http://www.dositey.com/2008/index-page-home.php not free?
http://www.sesamestreet.org/
http://www.roythezebra.com/
http://classroom.pbskidsplay.org/ =$350, 24 literacy games +other subjects
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