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Professional Development - National History Day
Teach Writing With The New York Times: A Free School-Year Curriculum in 7 Units
Facing History and Ourselves - Empowering teachers and students to think critically about history & to understand the impact of their choices.
AASL Best Apps and Websites for teaching and learning
Fully Online ISTE Certified Educator Course (The International Society for Technology in Education)
Teaching ELA - Resource for Increasing student connection with texts
Hi-Lo Chapter books - (Hi) Interest Level: Grades 5-8 / (Lo) Reading Level Range Grades 1-4
eBooks - a collection of free ebooks available in multiple languages. Read in home language + English version
Databases - all articles can be translated into home language, and have text-to-speech function
TellyPrompt - Chrome Extension. By using the Telly Prompter students can stream their script on a laptop while filming to build confidence. Works well with Flipgrid.
Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Wordless Picture Books - have no words. The narrative is told entirely through the illustrations on the pages.
(Free) Creative Apps for oral language development and retelling.
Take a picture of an object an add adjectives to describe it.
Take a picture of geometric shape and have the shape give its attributes.
Have students animate a favorite photo of themselves with messages for a virtual exhibition — great for students with social anxiety issues around presenting.
Take a picture of a character in a book and have them introduce him/herself.
Get a picture of the author of book and have the author share the author's message.
Take a picture of a book and share the genre of the book and why.
Make figurative language come to life. Use a picture to share personification/idioms/similies/metaphors as if they were taking literally.
Record the morning school announcements.
Take a picture of book and give a recommendation.
Create a map of a country and give each state it’s own voice.
Students can share a poem, tell or retell a story, tell a story from a different point of view, or even solve a math problem.
Have students record bios of famous historical figures.
As an educator, you could also record yourself giving instructions for a lesson; modeling that bio of a famous historical figure; create a map of a significant place in a book your class is reading
TELESCOPIC TEXT - www.telescopictext.org/text/KPx0nlXlKTciC
"It's called Telescopic Text and it was created by an artist named Joe Davis. TelescopicText.com is the plainest web page you'll ever see. It looks like this: But if you click on any of the highlighted words, they telescope. In other words, the sentence gets more elaborate."
Visual Aids for communication