3rd Grade Reading

Adobe Express and WeVideo can be used to create book reports or book reviews. The students import images that fit the story, put the images in order in iMovie/Adobe Express/WeVideo, and then add voiceover. Here are some tutorials and resources:

• Adobe Express tutorials

• WeVideo tutorials

• Student example: The Invention of Hugo Cabaret

DocAppender is a Google Form Add-On that organizes your conferring notes. DocAppender also organizes notes in a folder and timestamps them. Here are some resources:

• Doc Appender on Chrome Web Store

• How to set up Doc Appender

• Example conferring form

• Click here to make a copy of the example form

Shadow Puppet is an app that allows the user to create mini-slideshow movies. It's a great option if you'd like to hear students record their voices as they read several pages of text, or if you'd like students to publish their writing. Shadow Puppet movies are easily shared to Seesaw or the iPad Camera Roll.

• How to use Shadow Puppet

As students finish their books, they can submit a review using Google Forms. Teachers may grant access to the results so that students can see each other's recommendations and get inspired to read more!

• Google Forms tutorials

• Book Review Form (click to make your own copy)

Students provide a summary of a book they've read as well as suggestions on similar books and recommendations. Students also include a book selfie with themselves and the book they are sharing. 

• Book Selfie lesson plan

• Book Selfie template

• Book Selfie example

Google Classroom can be used to create a forum for book clubs. Teachers create separate Classrooms for each club; club members post thoughts and reply to one another on the Stream, post reading assignments for group members, and host group projects on the Classroom. Here are some tutorials and resources:

• Google Classroom tutorials

Flip is a video posting site that allows users to post quick selfie videos. To use Flipgrid for book clubs, create a Topic for each club and have the students post assignments, questions, and thoughts. For character study, students can post videos acting out scenes as characters from their books based on teacher prompts (e.g., "What would you do if you were _______?"). 

• Flip tutorials and resources

iMovie, WeVideo, or Adobe Express can be used to create biographical movies using the student's biography writing as the script. The students import images that fit the story, put the images in order in iMovie/Adobe Express/WeVideo, and then add voiceover. Here are some tutorials and resources:

• iMovie, WeVideo, and Adobe Express tutorials

• MLK Jr. Movie

Magnetic Poetry is a creative writing aid consisting of individual words—often related to a particular theme or topic—typed into on small text boxes which can be creatively arranged into poetry. Here are some resources:

• Google Slides tutorials and examples

• Magnetic Poetry templates

Google Slides can be used to create graphic organizers. You could even have your students create a full digital readers notebook with Google Slides!

• Google Slides tutorials and examples

• Digital graphic organizer templates

• Long Walk to Water digital notebook