Snap and Read and Co-writer are great tools for students who are below grade level in reading and writing. The tools help them access vocabulary and content at their grade level, and takes away the barrier of not knowing the pronunciation or language (also includes translations). Especially great in middle and high school.
Snap and Read: helps the student follow along while a voice reads the text to them (the options also include translating and taking notes).
Co-writer: helps word-predict and reads the sentences back to them.
Here are the videos Benes created for the students:
These are a few of the little tricks I've learned in the last couple months. Got any awesome little tricks? Send them to jbenes@mywps.org or make a video and share it so we can post them here!
These are all ideas I learned from other teachers! Thank you to Christy O'Glee, Christa Conrad, Laura Seward and Ann Harding.
How to create a Nearpod through Google slides
quiz
PDF viewer
DrawIt
open-ended question
collaboration board
How to start a Live Participation + Zoom lesson
note: This year I am using one Zoom link for the year with my high school students that is posted on my web page. Using THIS version of the Nearpod lesson does not work for me because this creates a new Zoom session in the moment that you and the student enter using the Nearpod code. I prefer to run a regular "live participation" lesson after the students have already entered Zoom using my regular Zoom link.
Many other Nearpod features can be found here in the Nearpod help center.