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IN the target language (Spanish) students record a 60 second video that is shared with only the teacher using the past, present, and future tenses about what has happened during the week.

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I have students write a last minute book report. The then record the video and present it to the class. I am excited to try this with a green screen.

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So my seniors just finished Frankenstein, and as a supplemental project, I had the kids design and make Franken-Toys, emphasizing the use of the uncanny in designing a creepy toy. The kids then need to make a commercial, advertisement, or live-action presentation about how to play with the toy and how it demonstrates the uncanny.

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ChatterPix Kids - Bring pictures to life by adding a moving mouth and students record - Picture "speaks" what the students have recorded.

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ChatterPix Kids - Bring pictures to life by adding a moving mouth and students record - Picture "speaks" what the students have recorded.

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Each student recorded their presentations and shared electronically with the teacher. Many creative ways to then share out with other students (yay authentic audience besides just the teacher). Screencastify is chromebook friendly.

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Create a GoogleSlides template that asks students to track a thematic subject and explain the author's message of the theme using quotes. They must pull 4 quotes and analyze them side by side on each slide. The final slide is a thesis statement, which all their evidence supports. In the end, students wrote a group literary analysis essay in presentation format.

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Argumentative writing: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, Counter-argument, Audience

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Online-Utility.org
Utilities for Online Operating System

Readability Calculator

This free online software tool calculates readability : Coleman Liau index, Flesch Kincaid Grade Level, ARI (Automated Readability Index), SMOG. The measure of readability used here is the indication of number of years of education that a person needs to be able to understand the text easily on the first reading. Comprehension tests and skills training.
This tool is made primarily for English texts but might work also for some other languages. In general, these tests penalize writers for polysyllabic words and long, complex sentences. Your writing will score better when you: use simpler diction, write short sentences.
It also displays complicated sentences (with many words and syllables) with suggestions for what you might do to improve its readability.

Basic text statistics are also displayed, including number of characters, words, sentences, and average number of characters per word, syllables per word, and words per sentence.

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Tests english languade document readability and gives suggestions how to improve it. Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading.

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Google spreadsheet - anonymous rating of thesis statements & attention getters

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Google spreadsheet - anonymous rating of thesis statements & attention getters

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Using specific organizers to guide students' thinking before, during, or after reading. I've been trying to switch these over to Google Docs.

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﻿ ﻿ ​﻿ Explicit strategy instruction is at the core of good comprehension instruction. " Before " strategies activate students' prior knowledge and set a purpose for reading. " During...

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Sometimes it's fun to hand out five random "Apples to Apples" cards and then have students go to the Write or Die website. They set a goal for words/session, they set a time limit, and I always have them choose "Kamikaze" mode which begins to delete words if they don't write continually. They incorporate their words in some way, and it helps them freewrite.

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Thematic Tracking - Google Docs / Brainstorming using Padlet

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Thematic Tracking - Google Docs / Brainstorming using Padlet

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Students follow themes throughout our unit texts using a live GoogleDoc Tracker assignment. Periodically, we share out strong quotes and analysis of the quotes on a live Padlet, which allows students to have quotes pre-selected prior to writing their essays.

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I would like to use sites to make my research units more engaging.

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I use music from 1994-2016 in my Romanticism unit, and have students develop an answer to the question: Were we in a Neo-Romantic Era from '94-'16?
I have them look up lyrics, draw parallels, post on classroom, and then conclude the unit with a formal essay (have used organizers for lower students)

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In drama class, I have students create Pinterest boards and add pins that help with costume design, set design, characterization, and conflict. Works really well with Midsummer Night's Dream.

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We still use Room for Debate- some of the articles are dated but we make them find updated resources for Socratic Seminar.   

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We still use Room for Debate- some of the articles are dated but we make them find updated resources for Socratic Seminar.   

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Going to have students do dramatic readings of Victorian poetry in two weeks!

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Use of Classroom and collaborative docs to model writing using sentence frames for struggling writers, scaffolding

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Anonymously submit an essays first sentence and review them aloud as a group. You can praise kids and critique without putting names with problems.

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Use the comment tool for students to write their annotations - what they are thinking about related to the reading (summary, question, definition of unfamiliar word, connection).

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Easy to manage database for Pro/Con articles for student lead research and reading

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I'm excited to have Ted Talk Tuesday where students watch and respond to a short TED Talk. 4th quarter students will write and share their own TED Talks. I am hoping for some suggestions on the best way to make that happen.

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Currently save PDFs from sites, but will now strip them down.
Have used QR codes for supplemental reading or resources.

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We  link audiobooks in google classroom for struggling readers.

We also level reading using NEWSELA.

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We have used https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning as a resource for our "Article of the Week" assignments modeled after Kelly Gallagher's idea https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRI7N0Nh_HPtbAiYiw9z5ZXHIcLPUfXBk2dIwZgrUZlKe_kvpqdPPioJn3_xBM89tVd7sAOVdWXY5Af/pub

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For book discussion groups or lit circles, students use google slides or chat (depending on grade level) to share out specific things about the book they are reading.

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* Use of Tumblebooks to introduce grammar (preterite/imperfect)