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Draw on Student Interests to Make the Common Core Work for You

Educator Innovator

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere. Make the standards work for you—don’t work for them.

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Library 2.0 Sponsored Webinar - "Success for Struggling Readers: New Strategies Using eBooks" with Ann Fondren + Sarah Downing

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Presents: "Success for Struggling Readers: New Strategies Using eBooks" With: Ann Fondren + Sarah Downing Date + Time: Thursday, October 13th 3:00pm EDT for one hour (Click on the time link to see the event time in your own time zone.) Research proves that eBooks hold many advantages and opportunities for success. Sign up HERE.

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Want to Code on an IPad? Here are 3 Great Apps

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sequencing–knowing what happens when; mentioned in Common Core standards for grades 1 through 5. No surprise the United Kingdom took the bold step of adding coding to the core school curriculum. don’t collect personal information other than user credentials or data required to operate the app. Conclusion.

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5 School-Wide Reading and Writing Tech Tools to Consider

Gaggle Speaks

Teachers can assign specific articles to students and then track a variety of data points, including who read the article, who passed the quiz and who took notes. Both admin and teachers can also see where their students fall in comparison to other Newsela students in regards to reading-level achievements and Common Core standards.

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To Develop Future-Ready Students, Project-Based Lessons Teach Real World Skills

Edsurge

For an overview of all our FutureFit resources, check out The Ultimate Back-to-School Guide for Teachers, an ebook created for educators to use both inside and outside the classroom. Grades K-2 Life Science, Biomes and Animal Habitats Data synthesis, communication, self-direction, self-awareness States of Matter: What Would Happen If…?

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Create Multimedia eBooks in a 1 iPad Classroom by Wesley Fryer Enhanced eBooks on iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches can include audio, video, and interactive animations in addition to digital text, images and links. With Google Forms it is super easy to collect this information and so much more!

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What is Actively Learn and Why Should I Try it?

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It provides reading resources either uploaded by the teacher or selected from the platform’s library of thousands of fiction and nonfiction books (some free; some through Prime plans), Common Core-aligned lesson plans, videos, or simulations. These are filtered by topic, grade, length, reading level, keyword, or standards (i.e.,

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