NCRA+Group+8

A. Conducting A PBI Compelling Question: How do you use digital tools to help scaffold struggling readers to publish, share and act?

Guiding Questions: do you need to take into consideration? (phonics, phonemic awareness, word study, comprehension, fluency) || Comprehension - Students need to be able to read and then share what they are reading; Word study issues - students don't understand the vocabulary of the text. ||
 * Question || Answer ||
 * 1. What characteristic of your struggling readers
 * 2. How would you build background knowledge? || Anchor charts; use google docs; immersion with texts, videos, experts on specificied topic; students bring in information on topic from home (parent/home connection); zaption.com - students watch video and answer questions at specific points. lessons on presenting information. ||
 * 3. How would you differentiate text(s)? || Prepare text for younger grade level; udlbookbuilder.com; newsela; ||
 * 4. How would you scaffold activities? || Teacher modeling how to publish, share, and act; each student has a role within collaborative group; jigsaw; teaching the tools to use (minilessons as and when needed); showcase a Ted Talk ||
 * 5. Tool #1 (affordances and application) || Zaption - free (background knowledge; create videos) ||
 * 6. Tool #2 (affordances and application) || Udlbookbuilder.com - free (building background knowledge; publish research to share) ||
 * 7. Tool #3 (affordances and application) || Seesaw App - free (like facebook or google plus for kids; publish work, pictures, videos, etc. and parents can have access) ||

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. Make a video of you explaining hacks for your phase of the PBI or create memes for the hacks and create a Prezi, Voicethread, etc. of the memes.

Meme Generator Voicethread Prezi

Here are Possible Resource: - Multimedia Storytelling - Animoto, Sock Puppets, ToonDoo - Slideshows and Posters - Glogster, Prezi, SlideRocket - Share on Social Media - FB, Twitter