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Common Lit- Free Reading Passages and Literacy Resources. ReadWorks- Leveled Reading Passages. Tumblebooks - Read Watch Learn! Understand what you read. RefWorks Login. SMMRY - Summarize Everything. Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine on the App Store. Student News. Reading Rockets. Online Reading Activities.

DOGO News - Kids news articles! Kids current events; plus kids news on science, sports, and more! Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events. Reading Rainbow Skybrary Family on the App Store. Read Me Stories - Children's books on the App Store. Venn Diagram. The Venn Diagram app allows users to compare and contrast information and to organize it in a visually appealing way.

Venn Diagram

Users can customize their circles by choosing from several color choices, and both the circle and font sizes can be altered to better align with the users' needs for each project. The finished Venn diagram can be e-mailed or saved to the device's photo album. Designed for use in the school environment, this app features a simple profile system so that multiple users can create and store their own Venn diagrams on the same device without confusion. This app mirrors our web-based student interactive Venn Diagram, so users familiar with one can easily adapt to the other. In fact, users can send their editable .rwt files to an email address and then open their Venn diagram right in the online tool!

Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Exploring Compare and Contrast Structure in Expository Texts Is Superman Really All That Super? What makes a superhero super? Trading Cards. ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters.

Trading Cards

Create trading cards for any number of categories, including: Fictional personReal personFictional placeReal placeObjectEventVocabulary word Each category has specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card. Summarizing skills are critical as they drill down to the most important information to fit on the card. In addition, they become aware of writing for an audience because they can share their cards with others. Part of the appeal of trading cards is being able to sort them into collections. Timeline. Home › Classroom Resources › Mobile Apps Mobile App Create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line.

Timeline

Timelines can be organized by time of day, date, or event, and the tool allows users to create a label with short or long descriptive text. The ability to add an image encourages students to create a visually appealing project. Add, drag, and rearrange items as needed. Alphabet Organizer. Engage students and build phonemic awareness by using the Alphabet Organizer mobile app.

Alphabet Organizer

Students create an alphabet book or alphabet chart with words for each letter of the alphabet. Or choose just one word per letter and upload an image to help early readers make a visual connection between the word and the beginning letter. Final work can be shared via e-mail or saved to the device's camera roll. Designed for use in the school environment, this app features a simple profile system so that multiple users can create and store their own theme poems on the same device without confusion. This app mirrors our web-based student interactive Alphabet Organizer, so users familiar with one can easily adapt to the other. For prep work before working on a mobile device, use blank versions of the alphabet chart and the alphabet letter pages. Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Our Community: Creating ABC Books as Assessment.

Hero's Journey App. Fact Fragment Frenzy App. Home › Classroom Resources › Mobile Apps Mobile App Fact Fragment Frenzy, as a stand-alone or as part of an extended research skills unit, aids students in learning the importance of finding the words in sentences and paragraphs that contain the facts they need for compiling their research.

Fact Fragment Frenzy App

They practice by pulling important words from a text over to a virtual notebook. The students then move to putting those notes into their own words, avoiding plagiarism. Having elementary and intermediate students participate in the fact-finding process early in their school experience promises to enrich further study and enjoyment of nonfiction texts. Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Unit. Sixth Grade. This book is here!

Sixth Grade

Click on the "Downloads" tab above From the Michigan Content Expectations: Sixth grade students will review the tools and mental constructs used by historians and geographers. They will develop an understanding of the global world and will study contemporary geography of the Eastern Hemisphere. Overview of the MI Open Book Project World Geography Text With a shift towards World Geography in the 6th grade and different patterns that could be traversed even with a newer/clearer direction, the World Geography team wanted to take the best approaches employed by different organizations and provide something unique but familiar, an additional resource useful whether you're teaching through the five themes of geography, focusing on spatial thinking, or still looking at regions.

**The Sixth Grade book will include a digital student journal that tracks their understanding of the continuous inquiry question: How are we, as members of a global society connected? Foundations Unit: Literature Circle Guide: Bridge to Terabithia} - Printables. Free Book Spot. Free Young Adult E-Books (150 books) SCHOLASTIC NEWS ONLINE ® Photos & Videos.

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