Mrs. Spring's Virtual Coaching Space- Elementary School by Jasmine Spring

Reading Rockets Award- Winning Book List

jasminespring — 2023-11-16 03:02:21 UTC

This website has a list of award-winning books to read with students. It also has lists of books by theme.

Epic

jasminespring — 2023-11-16 03:13:57 UTC

Epic is a website with many online books for students. Teachers are able to assign books to students and allow students to free read. This website also has audio books and videos included. Additionally, they also have books written in Spanish.

Rudine Sims Bishop "Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors"

jasminespring — 2023-11-17 20:35:26 UTC

This video is of Rudine Sims Bishop discussing the importance of diverse books within the classroom.

Kami

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 02:39:24 UTC

Kami is an online annotation tool that allows students and teachers to write on a document. This can be used as a way for students to annotate a document online. It can also be a way for students to complete organizers online together.

Flip

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 02:47:15 UTC

Flip is an online video recording website. Teachers are able to create a video board about a topic. Students are then able to comment with a video. This would be a great way for students to share what books they are reading, talk about a book for book club and share their writing.

Book Creator

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 02:53:19 UTC

Book Creator allows students to create a digital book about anything. In primary grades, this would be a great way to create a class alphabet book. This would also be a great way for multilingual learners to create books about vocabulary words. Students could also create online books out of their writing as way to publish their work.

Technology Reading & Digital Literacy: Strategies to Engage the Reluctant Reader by L. Robert Furman

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 03:07:12 UTC

This book gives many strategies to engage reluctant readers using technology. This book gives suggestions of apps to help with reading, websites to help students find books, websites to help students discuss books and websites to help students share books.

7 Ways to Get Your Struggling Readers to READ

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 03:15:53 UTC

This article gives different ideas for helping struggling readers to want to read. Ideas like using audio books and different media to teach reading could help all learners. Struggling readers would benefit from using different media to help them access the text.

Storyline Online

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 03:20:13 UTC

Storyline Online is website that houses books being read aloud by actors. These books each have a recorded video that could be used in whole group or, could be used in small group to help with listening comprehension.

Learning For Justice Texts

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 03:44:12 UTC

This website has diverse texts that can be used with students reading at many different levels. As a bonus, this website has a lesson plan builder. You can choose a social justice standard and a text to start. Then you can build a lesson using strategies and activities that are suggested.

Lightbox

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 03:46:46 UTC

This website has online texts at many different reading levels. The texts have a video and Google Earth map attached. They also have activities that go with each book.

Pebble Go and Pebble Go Next

jasminespring — 2023-11-18 03:49:27 UTC

These websites have online books and articles. These articles have an audio button that will read to the students. The texts also come in Spanish. These texts come with activities and with a video.

Symbaloo

jasminespring — 2023-11-19 01:09:39 UTC

This website allows you to create a text set with different types of media. It can also serve as a way to communicate with parents.

If We Want Bookworms, We Need to Get Beyond Leveled Reading by Gonser

jasminespring — 2023-11-19 01:19:34 UTC

This article is about the importance of allowing students time to choose their own books to read based on what they are interested in. This article challenges the idea that students must always be reading a "just right" book. Sometimes students need the freedom to choose a book that is a stretch or that is too easy.

Creating Passionate Readers Through Independent Reading by The International Literacy Association

jasminespring — 2023-11-19 01:29:15 UTC

This article talks about the importance of independent reading time. It also gives advice on how to best give students access to independent time to read.

American Library Association: Pura Belpre Winners

jasminespring — 2023-11-19 01:37:30 UTC

The Ramped-Up Read Aloud: What to Notice as You Turn the Page by: Maria P. Walther

jasminespring — 2023-11-19 01:50:19 UTC

This book has 101 read aloud book suggestions. Along with each book, there is a strategy to teach during the read aloud of the book. This resource is great because it has pre-made read aloud lessons that can be used with the recommended books or any book of your choice.

Revisiting Read Alouds: Instructional Strategies that Encourage Students’ Engagement with Text by: Morrison & Wlodarczyk

jasminespring — 2023-11-19 02:00:37 UTC

This article is about the importance of read alouds. It also talks about how to make read alouds more engaging. Additionally, this article goes in depth about the Alphaboxes Strategy and how to promote discussions about reading.

The Power of reading aloud to Your students: Guidelines and Top 5 Read- Aloud Strategies by The International Literacy Association

jasminespring — 2023-11-19 02:08:16 UTC

Guidelines and top 5 read-aloud strategies

This article talks about the best read- aloud strategies and how to implement them within your classroom.

Why We Should All Be Reading Aloud To Children by: Rebecca Bellingham

jasminespring — 2023-11-19 02:26:31 UTC

This Ted Talk is about why reading to students is important and why we need to be reading to students of all ages.