Weekend Website #91: 16 Word Study Websites for 2nd Grade. Every Friday, I’ll send you a wonderful website (or more) that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine. Here’s a list of 16 Word Study websites for 2nd Grade. I’ve used all of these in my classroom. Usually, I create a ‘box of links’ on the internet start page and put them all there, let students pick. To sign up for Weekend Websites delivered to your email, click Weekend Websites here.
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. Follow me Like this: Like Loading... Professional blog | 21st Century Educator. Recently I noticed that Google forms has an option to add multiple pages to a form, and to go to pages based on the responses to multiple choice questions added to each page. It occurred to me that an immediate use of this would be to construct a "choose your own adventure" story which I always loved reading when I was a student. The basic idea is, the students construct a story where the next page in the story depends on a decision made by the person reading the story. Generally in one of these books the reader flips to a different page depending on their decision and so create their own version of the story.
With a sufficiently advanced plot, and a long enough book, there can be a very large number of ways a story can unfold. To recreate this in Google docs, you have to first create a standard Google form. Navigate to and sign in, then click on "Create New" and select "Form". The very last page of the form will have a submit button. Scramble Paragraphs | perfect English | Learn English language | 10 Apps for Learners Who Struggle with Reading and/or Writing. Despite the growing use of multimedia in classrooms, schools remain primarily text oriented.
This is a major problem for significant numbers of learners who struggle with text. No matter how capable they may be in other respects, these students are not “academically” oriented in the ways that tend to matter most in the classroom. For many, it’s a processing issue. Others have difficulty with the physical mechanics of writing. So, as I’ve explored possibilities with the iPhone and iPad, my most urgent priority has been to discover free and low-cost tools that can be effective in supporting individuals who struggle with text. In this post, I’m sharing 10 free and low-cost apps that may be especially helpful for individuals who find reading and/or writing challenging. I’ve written previously about some of these resources, but I thought it might be useful to put them together in one place, with information about the apps in point form.
TextGrabber for turning paper hard copy into readable PDF. Fairy Tales: Picture Books, Chapter Books, and Writing Ideas. Random Words By POS. Best Books for Middle Schoolers: From Our Wonderful Middle School Librarian! My oldest daughter is lucky in that she has the best Middle School librarian who really cares about finding books that make kids excited to read. He posted this list on our school eNewsletter which is how I found it. I think that by Middle School, students pretty have a good sense of the types of chapter books that they like to read so his list, by genre, is particularly helpful.
His list includes: Adventure/Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Humorous, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Horror/Supernatural, Science Fiction, Biographies/Non-Fiction, and Poetry. There is something for any tween or teen on his list! What is your tween/teen enjoying? Adventure/Mystery The Girl Is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey Death Cloud by Andrew Lane Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Tunnel Vision by Susan Shaw The Secret of ROVER by Rachel Wildavsky To buy or examine more closely any book from Amazon, please click on image of book. Realistic Fiction Humorous Historical Fiction.