Why?

• These tools are being built into our culture and routines, and we would like to make suggestions.

• Students need some guidance on how to manage these tools with direct instruction.

• These tools can be built into your beginning-of-the-year routines and visited frequently. This will help you find time later as students become more comfortable with using the tools more effectively.

How?

Google Classroom

• Teacher organization

  • Notifications

• Students - best practices when using Google Classroom

  • Bookmarks

Google Drive

• Student Organization

• Moving documents

Google Calendar

• Show students how assignments & assessments from Google Classroom are automatically inputted into their calendar

• Helps with executive functioning

Gmail

• Better managing emails and folders

Keep

• Organizing assignments and workflow

This resource will provide students with organized information to express their thoughts more effectively to focus on more complex writing tasks such as fluency or analysis.

Why?

• Executive Functioning

  • Help take live notes and not lose them

  • Learning life skills

  • Formatted highlighting allows the student to initiate the assignment quicker because it is consistent.

• Reading Comprehension

  • Help identify main ideas and support details

• Writing

  • Lacking detail or examples in their writing

  • Developing a bank that the students can go to when creating outlines

• It will help students realize how they learn best

• It will help them practice using technology for learning and specific strategies.

This does not replace all handwritten notes and reading directly from a text; however, this is a modification that could meet the needs of many students.

What accommodations and modifications does this support?

• Goals relating to reading and writing.

• Breaking down assignments

How?

• Highlighting guide and key - “standardize” specific colors to a specific task that are needed in annotating

  • YELLOW - main idea (1 per paragraph)

  • PURPLE - supporting details

  • BLUE - vocabulary words

  • GREEN - Unfamiliar words you think you should know

• Text boxes - are necessary for downloading the text. If a teacher wants students' comments and annotations, this is what the student needs to use

• Comments text - Click on the text or anywhere on the text and then move the point to the discussed area. Comments are searchable. Useful for longer annotations so that the sheet does not get too crowded.

• Voice Comments - This will allow students that struggle with oral language to express their thoughts verbally and promote proper grammar while speaking.