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Bringing personal experiences into the curriculum (for example sharing pics of flood damage when learning about natural disasters)

Drawing connections between the students' lives and the curriculum.

Using real world examples

Sharing our toys/stuff from the past and comparing it to what students currently have

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Choice Boards that allow students to expand their thinking

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Creating visuals

Find things that the STs can relate to

World connections

If a ST has a question, we research the answer together.

Make it feel like the students are learning with a lot of fun.

Reading in science

Breakout Rooms (pull the STs that are really strong into one room and allow them to work with one another. Then, make another room, or two, with STs that struggle with reading and have a teacher in there with them for popcorn reading or supported reading).

ST choice with learning (assignments that equal a certain amount of points)

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To get our students exited about the week in UFLI, Kindergarten uses theme weeks. It helped changed things up weekly.

First grade gave an option to students to get participation during PM days, Fridays. STs could either use the nearpod to write, or their white boards.

Possibilities for brain breaks were also given if students participated doing UFLI lessons. This helped motivate those students.

Second grade loved blookets and time to climb to try to engage students.

Forgetful Pirate also helped get the kids excited about UFLI.

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Critical thinking - creating words using beginning sounds or ending sounds.

Creating/identifying "nonsense" words

Problem solving - using high frequency words and building sentences using it

Non-verbal - problem solving/critical thinking - identifying pictures based on spoken words

Sign language for letters

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-using warm-ups to assess prior knowledge and get students excited about the learning that is going to take place

-math manipulatives, whether virtual or in-home, always seem to get our kids motivated to participate

-Nearpod, Time to Climb, Classkick, etc.

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Incorporating visual, auditory, and tactile cues.

Scaffolding and building on skills based on earlier lessons/skills

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We use warm-ups that can engage students in the math concepts they are working on.

We use open-ended questioning to scaffold the highest-level math learners and challenge them.

We differentiate the manipulatives we use to accommodate the diverse learning styles of our students.

Pulling students in the afternoon or during team teaching blocks to help assess them.

Getting our kids to be moving, to be interactive, is a way to engage our classrooms.

Have kids BE THE TEACHER! They love being hands-on and love Nearpod. Gamification with time to climb, blookets, kahoots.

High, Medium, Low Groupings to help with ability and fluidity.

Assessing students where they are at with a basic scale: thumbs up, thumbs in the middle, thumbs down. Assessing with exit tickets and gamification.

When planning lessons, make the objectives slide last after we do all the other pieces like content slides, exit ticket, and the alignment.

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-formal and informal assessment used both throughout the lesson and at the end of the lesson

-Time to Climb is a way to assess students without the pressure of an assessment

-quick checks to see how students are doing throughout the lesson, not just at the end

-having students assess themselves with thumbs up/thumbs down, rating scales, etc.

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Allowing students a variety of ways to participate - letting them stamp, or type in chat, or do hand motions. It lets all students interact with the lesson and engage no matter what their level is

Making sure that we include options for different learners in our lesson plans that we share out with the team.

Making our lessons bright and friendly to engage them - having pictures for visual learners

Using Nearpod - they can type, write, draw, or speak their answers to questions

Adding in Brainpop videos to engage them and then using the Brainpop follow-up questions

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Allowing students some choice in what they are studying or opportunities to "dive deeper"; especially with higher level/more advanced students.

Incorporating peer supports in lessons. Encouraging students to work together heterogeneously.

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Having the lesson be ST driven has been helpful with extensions and challenges. Giving students the decodable texts in Nearpod because there are spots for drawings, made the students excited.

There were also UFLI games/Pink cat games that you could use as extensions that also make it fun for the students.

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Blooket and Gimkit to assess STs in a fun way while also obtaining data and do a review with the STs

Nearpod helps as exit tickets with things like Drag and Drop, Time to Climb, etc.

Have the teacher make random mistakes to see if the STs pick up on it and can explain why it was a mistake

Quizizz (Mastery Peak) to help assess STs (STs can also change their avatars and teachers can see their progress as they answer questions and move along the path)

Thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs in the middle to gauge how the students are feeling about the content being taught

Classkick can be used for the entire year and STs can have a virtual journal in there to keep up with the progress in the course and see how much they have done

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While teaching the lesson the exit ticket generally reflects what objectives what is taught in the lesson. Then we can use that data to see what parts of the lesson students understand.