NCRA+Group+6

A. Conducting A PBI Compelling Question: How do you use digital tools to help scaffold struggling readers to synthesize claims and evidences?

Guiding Questions: do you need to take into consideration? (phonics, phonemic awareness, word study, comprehension, fluency) || all of the above ||
 * 1. What characteristic of your struggling readers
 * 2. How would you build background knowledge? || Group discussion, think pair share, videos, hands on experiences, guest speaker, virtual field trip, read alouds (print/digital) ||
 * 3. How would you differentiate text(s)? || Small group/guided reading, technology (newsela, achieve3000, reading a-z), literature circle, buddy reading ||
 * 4. How would you scaffold activities? || Multi step/single step, literature circles, graphic organizers/sentence frames ||
 * 5. Tool #1 (affordances and application) || wordle - create word clouds with a common theme. Words entered more often will show up More prominently ||
 * 6. Tool #2 (affordances and application) || Prezi- students can drop different resources into a single presentation ||
 * 7. Tool #3 (affordances and application) || Animtoo ||

B. Add your 3 tools to the Padlet on the homepage.

C. Create your PBI hack here. A hack is an easy or clever way to accomplish a task. Watch this [|video] to see examples of classroom hacks. You can create a video describing your hacks or create Memes to represent your hacks and make a Prezi, Voicethread, etc.

Meme Generator Voicethread Prezi

Here are Possible Resources for Digital Tools:
 * Collaborative Document Creation
 * Google Spreadsheet
 * Collaborative document creation using Google Docs tutorial
 * Quip
 * Stormboard:  Brainstorm, organize, prioritize and act on the best ideas, in the same room or around the world, on a realtime sticky note whiteboard.
 * Interactive Graphics
 * Popplet : Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.
 * Bubbl.us : Easily create colorful mind maps to print or share with others
 * VennDiagram : Interactive venn diagram from ReadWriteThink.org
 * TimeToast :  allows students to build interactive timelines in minutes.
 *  Tiki-Toki: create interactive timelines
 *  [|Dipty] : a free digital timeline website where users can integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.
 * Microsoft Office SmartArt Graphics
 * Tutorial for PPT
 * Tutorial for Word

Here are Possible Resources for Hacks:
 * Claims and Evidences Graphic Organizer
 * A+B=AB image