Read & Write Practice Reading Aloud
Do you have a web-based reading passage that you'd like your students to practice reading aloud? With the Practice Read Aloud feature of the Read&Write Chrome extension, students can record themselves reading aloud and submit the audio file to their teacher. A new page with a microphone is launched when a learner clicks the Practice Read Aloud icon in the Read&Write toolbar. Directly below the microphone symbol are the recording directions. Students can first hear the passage read to them as many times as necessary using the Play option in the same Read&Write toolbar until they feel confident trying it on their own. Students submit the reading's audio file by email or Google Classroom.
ISTE Technology Standards for Students 1.1.c.: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their leaning in a variety of ways.
Practice Read Aloud Tool Directions
Voice Note Tool Directions
Read&Write Voice Note
Worried that your younger students may not be able to read the feedback comments posted on digital assignments? With the Voice Note feature of Read&Write, teachers can record 60 seconds of feedback and/or instructions to be automatically added to students' Google Docs and Slides. Students will see voice notes left on their documents in the same way as typed comments. Playable Voice Notes can be listened to by clicking on the sideways triangle play icon ▶️. John Hattie's Visible Learning database indicates that feedback has an effect size of 0.62 (0.40 effect size represents a year's growth per year of schooling for students).
One of the key strategies suggested by the Education Development Center for assisting young bilingual children in their learning is teacher support for students' family culture. The document below will be familiar to teachers who have taken part in USC's Reading and Literacy Authorization program. The Education Development Center advises teachers to home survey their students' native cultures and then include familiar cultural components into their lessons. Google Arts and Culture is a great source for cultural source material. Their amazing visual stories, like the ones linked above are multimedia-rich, interactive, and keep students interested.
Supporting-Emergent-Bilingual-Children_English.pdf“About 40% of English words have a Spanish cognate.” Elephant 🐘 - Elefante 🐘