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Exploring Author's Purpose
Author's Purpose seems to be a trouble spot for many students at my schools. I have designed a template that has been incredibly popular. The first slide I do not typically show the students. I have…
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The Prosody Podcast - Developing Fluency with Poetry
Developing fluency and expression when reading (prosody) is an important component of early literacy and developing language proficiency. This lesson could be used in small groups with primary learne…
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Code Tom the Turkey to Macy's
Students have been discussing the story “Balloons over Broadway” and learning information about the Macy’s Day Parade they are also learning the basics of coding. Thus coding Tom the Turkey to Macy’s…
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Keynote Space Activity
First grade is learning to use drawing tools and basic animation in Keynote. They are also learning about space in their reading unit! They drew a space background in Keynote, added a photo of themse…
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Be a Part of Your Storytelling - Keynote Live Video
Last year, I got to be a part of helping our 8th grade Reading department use Keynote to show learning. These teachers had students write summaries and predictions about events and characters from in…
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Analyzing Literary Theme with One Word
High School students reading and discussing F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, analyzed the theme in a unique way. Students thought of just one word they felt described the theme of the b…
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Level Up Reader’s Theater
Take Reader’s Theater to the next level by utilizing GarageBand. Reader’s Theater is an excellent way for students to practice fluency, prosody, and accuracy. Students can create different readers by…
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Close Reading Strategies Template
Within this Keynote, students can respond to any text with different close reading strategies. There is an overview with prompts of 'What? Why? How?' plus digging in further to these concepts with ch…
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Reading for Pleasure
As educators we hold the key to unlocking the magical world of reading for our students 🔑 This past school year, I create a Padlet for students to recommend books for each other. They wrote short d…
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Create a Reader's Theater Center with Pages
One way that my students really got excited to read, re-read and read some more was with a reader's theater center. Students collaborated as they listened to each other and played their character's r…
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Character Trait Mini-Lesson
This was a simple reflective activity for ELA using an award certificate template from Pages. The students selected a character of focus from literature and rewarded them with a certificate to honor …
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Character Analysis - The Outsiders
Here is a Pages template that can be used for a novel study for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. This character analysis was done as part of a novel study. Previously, we would keep a running document …
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Reading Strategies Resources
Hello! I am a Reading Specialist, and I am looking for any great resources that are out there to help my struggling readers. I am fairly new to using Apple Tools, so any and all suggestions are welco…
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Hear Me Grow: Fluency Portfolio
Fluency is key in learning to read and so hard to track and show growth. Using the record audio feature in Keynote, I created a digital portfolio for students to record themselves reading in order to…
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Práctica de sonidos
Aquí les va una pequeña rutina para practicar sonidos y silbas. Es muy fácil de cambiar el formato y ponerlo al corriente de las vocales que el grupo/estudia de necesite practicar.
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Using iMovie to Publish Student Writing
Even in kindergarten, students can publish their writing using digital tools! In my classroom, iMovie has been the fan-favorite publishing tool each year. At the end of the year we do a dinosaur inf…
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Digital Genre Book Tasting
As a campus librarian, I enjoyed hosting a book tasting each year in my library. When students participate in the book tasting I liked to have students make notes or take record of which books they w…
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Reading Log Tracker
Use one of the attached reading log trackers to have students track their reading throughout the year. The genre table on the right hand side can be adjusted to add or remove genre types. In addition…
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Multimodal Reading Responses using a Pages Digital Journal
Oh, I love to read with my students 🙌🏻 There is nothing better than choosing a great-quality picture book and sharing this with a group of young learners. I also love to follow on from that reading…
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Literacy Across the Curriculum
At my school, particularly in the Middle School (Years 5-8), we have a priority of literacy across the curriculum. This manifest in a number of ways, but one of the most important ways is in our Drop…
