The annotate tool can be used on any "worksheet" type activity when displayed on the panel.

Students can label, underline, highlight, circle things from the text directly on the panel in whole group or small group activity.

Quick Tip: If you need to change the page or adjust the website, click the eye with a slash to hide your annotation and make the website functional. Click the eye again to make your notes reappear.

Students can use our HMH word blending resources to sound out the word. As they say each sound, they move along each segment. While the student at the board leads the activity, other students can follow along and blend the sounds together.

Create spinners for the major pieces of a writing prompt in the Promethean app on your laptop.

• Setting

• Character: Hero or villain

• Problem/Conflict

Open the Spinner app on the Promethean board and choose the spinner for setting.  Click the + sign to add a second spinner and choose your character. Add a third spinner to select the conflict of the story.

Students can take turns spinning the spinners for a class prompt or even take turns creating a personalized prompt by spinning each spinner for themselves.

Lesson Prep: Teacher creates spinners in Promethean account to fit RAF choices that are related to topic being assigned for critical writing piece.

Teacher assigns T(topic) based on connection to lesson.

Examples:

• issue related to time period in history

• topic related to essential question

• topic related to text being read

• issue of personal interest

Students use spinners to choose the role, audience, and format of their critical writing piece. Spinners can be created to fit any content area and any level of students.

In the Promethean app on your laptop, create 2 spinners with rhyming words related to a story you are reading. On the first spinner, put 1/2 of the rhyming words. Create a second spinner with the remaining 1/2 of the rhyming words.

Such as:

• Rhymes 1: house, bone, over, scat, play

• Rhymes 2: mouse, alone, Rover, cat, day

Open the Spinner app on the Promethean board and choose the spinner for rhymes.  Click the + sign to add a second spinner and open a second rhyme spinner that has rhymes for spinner 1. 

Students can take turns spinning the spinners, reading the word, and deciding if it rhymes.

*You can also create a spinner with student names to call on volunteers.