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Go Digital! Digital Interactive Notebooks!

One of my goals this year was to start using interactive notebooks. I could see the benefits of students creating a notebook that they could refer to all year.  I could also see benefits of students using the graphic organizers as tools to help organize, understand, and synthesize new information. I decided to start small,… Continue reading Go Digital! Digital Interactive Notebooks!

Common Core Standards · Fact Fluency · Fact Power · Immediate Feedback · Kahoot! · Math · Multiplication · Self-Assessment · Technology · Uncategorized · Vocabulary

Use Kahoot! For Assessment!

Kahoot! is an interactive web-based program that allows you to use and create questions for your students.  From the first time we used it in my classroom, my students ask me on a weekly basis, “Are we using Kahoot! today?” which, showed me as a teacher, that I can use it as an instruction/assessment tool… Continue reading Use Kahoot! For Assessment!

Common Core Standards · Differentiation · Language Arts · Pic Collage · Reading · Technology · Word Study

3 Ways To Use Pic Collage To Promote Reading

Pic Collage is a free and extremely user friendly application. Most of my students even tell me that it’s an app that they use outside of school. Here are a few engaging ways to use this app to help promote students’ reading comprehension! *Tip: Pic Collage recently came out with an App called Pic Kids… Continue reading 3 Ways To Use Pic Collage To Promote Reading

Common Core Standards · Curriculum · education · Lesson Plans · Technology · Uncategorized · Wix

Integrating 21st Century Skills

  Implementing and teaching 21st Century Skills into the classroom has been a hot topic in the educational profession for quite some time. According to Common Core State Standards, students as young as pre-school age are now required to indicate their knowledge of technology standards. In a day in age where technology standards are just as… Continue reading Integrating 21st Century Skills

education · Google · Graphic Organizer · Language Arts · Reading · Technology · Uncategorized

Graphic Organizers on Google Slides

Do you remember the last time you learned a lesson from your students? Last year I asked my students to write a petition about a change they want to see in the world. A group of my students gathered to write a petition of how we need to use less paper. They were so committed to… Continue reading Graphic Organizers on Google Slides