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Welcome to my Virtual Office:

Pear Deck-101-Spanish Video

This video is a bonus session from Pear Fall Edition, 2020 for Educators and Administrators at peardeck.com

Overview

This session is a basic training in the use of Pear Deck. The session serves as an introduction to the Pear Deck, its purpose, and its basic features. The session begins with general information about the tool. Then it guides participants through the registration process and a brief exploration of the home page. From there, the session covers: designing or preparing a lesson using the Pear Deck, teaching and managing the lesson, and evaluating the results of the lesson. Participants should leave the session with a solid understanding of what Pear Deck does and how to design and run a class with Pear Deck.

Video is also available under more to share with your parents or students

This is the link for the presentation: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XYmhFgngs5XWjGIK1pFtWeQvDwg6eAVDtmolaVSf1fA/copy 

Newsela is a platform that gathers news from various sources and rewrites them according to students’ reading levels in grades 2 – 12.  We can all access this platform.  This link will show you how it works:

Newsela Video 

Now students can study the same content, in English or Spanish, and learn at their own pace while teachers guide them through assessments—like Quizzes, Annotations and Write Prompts— that are available for every article at every level. A great way to improve critical thinking skills and measure student progress in real time.

Vocabulary Strategies

Vocabulary Strategies

Students learn the most vocabulary when they read from a wide variety of text.  Still, it helpful to directly teach students words, and to teach students how to use context and what they know about words to figure out new words. When teaching vocabulary, be sure to select words that will be used in the students' lives. Special jargon or rare words don't need to be taught directly, since students will not likely use those words in the their real lives.  Instead, select words that are common to every day life, or words that are critical for understanding the text being read.  

When evaluating strategies or activities for vocabulary instruction, look for strategies that include opportunities for students to make personal connections to the new vocabulary, to have multiple exposure to the vocabulary, and to use the vocabulary in authentic ways.  Making connections, having multiple exposures, and using vocabulary in a real way is how students learn words best.  All the strategies here are great examples of research-based vocabulary strategies.

Vocabulary Assessment

Example of assessing  students knowledge of the vocabulary using Pear Deck

docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hoBwkwoT7vwb8wzxE_7IXPwcwnSKpKadvsi1wbMFVow/copy 

Strategies

All these links are ready to use with Kami

Vocabulary Book

https://kami.app/uHhNMX1DHNeM

Semantic Feature

https://kami.app/LT0cAhDGA6Ac

Click and Clunk

https://kami.app/JfdDgq8myjSl

English-Spanish cognates are words that possess identical or nearly identical spellings and meanings in both languages. The English word, “situation,” and the Spanish word, situación, are cognates, as are “vocabulary,” and vocabulario. Because so many English and Spanish words are derived from Latin, there are more than 20,000 such cognates. In addition to their large numbers, cognates are important because the great majority of them are academic vocabulary terms 

Reading Strategies-Discussion & Asking Questions

In this unit, I concentrate on using Pear Deck to connect reading strategies using discussion , asking questions, and short formative assessments to check for understanding of the material.

What is Pear Deck?

Pear Deck is a simple way to engage and add mini-formative assessment to your direct instruction through interactive presentation slides.  Follow this directions:

Create your Pear Deck account

1. Go to peardeck.com.

2. Click on Teacher Login.

3. When prompted, log in with a Microsoft Office 365 or Google account and respond to a few questions.

4. Install the Pear Deck for Online PowerPoint Add-in or the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on.

To join the presentation, your students:

• Go to joinpd.com.

• Enter the five-letter Join Code from your Session at joinpd.com.

  • Alternatively, you can post or email the Session link that you get when you click Give Students a Link (see step #1 above) and students can simply click on it to join your Session.

  • Join Codes expire after one week, but the Session link is permanent. If you want to students to participate in a Session for more than a week, have them use the Join Link.

PD Inside Phonics and Inside the U.S.A

I would like to say thank you to all of you who attended the PD for Nat-Geo Newcomers.  I had a great time sharing the curriculum and activities with you.  Also, it was great to explore different ideas about the curriculum.

This is the link for the website

This is the link for Nat-Geo Curriculum Website

I update this website twice a week.   

https://sites.google.com/u/0/d/1BhHjhCHL-JIj8qvSuHGEgf__VdrwakzJ/p/1379ZUs1hdDOc5vggErefUz4M8kWxb-Bj/preview?authuser=0

Presentation shared on Tuesday, September 8, 2020

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QBUNOlyjxURvqUeviIv0hoVDzwHD_xQriUIbRVJORIA/copy

Feature of the Week

Wk-3: Your School Day

Students are new to the school, the country, and the city. Everyone needs to ask for directions in a school environment at some point in time. People also have to schedule appointments with professionals throughout their day (i.e., health professionals, lawyers, salons, etc.).Students work with maps and location, using prepositions (especially in and on). 

This is the virtual Classroom for Week 3

All these activities are part of Nat-Geo Newcomers Curriculum Inside the U.S.A.  In this Virtual Classroom, I have also added some information for parents: Parent resources, Parent Bag-pack, ESOL website,  CNN, Calendars, Rosetta Stone.....and for the teachers the WIDA website. Have fun with the lessons or activities and adjust them  to fit the needs of your classroom.

If you have any problems with any of the links  or need assistance with the materials, please e-mail boconnor@greenvilleschools.us

Use this link to make your own copy

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xlRGZ4SeMf9nI0SmN3f9Zgn11H4ajHy9LF-iP3JF8H0/copy

Feature of The Week

Unit 1 Nice to Meet You:

How do I introduce myself and meet other people?

Reading Fundamentals: 

Letters & Alphabet , Math: Number Sense, Social Studies-Geography & Maps

ESL instruction is to be focused on oral language, reading and writing through concept development based on regular classroom objectives. All modifications are based upon grade level standards with appropriate tasks geared toward grade level content standards. Some possible strategies may include graphic organizers, additional modeling or guided practice activities, or adapted assignments that allow for demonstration and learning and skill, relative to ability. Moreover, meaningful learning which  is essentially creative learning. Students must "be given permission" to go beyond the knowledge of their teachers. They must also be given the opportunity to demonstrate learning in unique ways...ways that are meaningful to the learner, or contextually.  

These materials can be used face to face or using Google Classroom:

Make a copy of the links if you have any problems, please email boconnor@greenvilleschools.us 

These are the links with a description of the materials:

Google Classroom and Google Meet-A presentation to introduce students to Google Classroom-Google Meet with daily schedules.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wWf7B_H18ElrQom0siSAG0-PMI6iksErC_uBRU0E6Po/copy

Design Your Lockers: This activity can be used for the students to create their own Locker Rooms allowing them to practice the new vocabulary

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ztvHiiX0jhe3wBJHORNjO2g8A7LW3TNKi4N3D7cd3Bs/copy

Feature of The Week: Students will make explore high frequency words by making connections using their names and prior knowledge to connect with L2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tyOtpTff9c7cdHOJlsMI2esqJfCjE0bprX9g_x3cW1w/copy

Bitmoji Slide-Welcome to Inside the USA: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hcD2jkxzFH4V7dAAg8ek7hat6eVg5_hHczAiFXc6b9s/copy

Virtual Outline: Inside the USA Newcomers