NCRA+Group+5

A. Conducting A PBI Compelling Question: How do you use digital tools to help scaffold struggling readers to gather and analyze sources?

Guiding Questions: do you need to take into consideration? (phonics, phonemic awareness, word study, comprehension, fluency) || critical comprehension skills needed ||
 * Question || Answer ||
 * 1. What characteristic of your struggling readers
 * 2. How would you build background knowledge? || model how to find information, key words, iterative, ||
 * 3. How would you differentiate text(s)? || find materials at the student's level, google folder for where materials are gathered, find one on your own, search engine differentiation - some have videos (google junior and Kiddle), for advanced -google scholar as search engine, NEWSELA ||
 * 4. How would you scaffold activities? || gather first, take time to analyze - chunk it, What are we giving students - process outlined within the step of Gathering and Analyzing Sources - model first, then guided before releasing for independent work ||
 * 5. Tool #1 (affordances and application) || Symbaloo ||
 * 6. Tool #2 (affordances and application) || Google Search Engines ||
 * 7. Tool #3 (affordances and application) || Google Site/Google Classroom ||

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

C. Create your PBI hack here. 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. A hack is an easy or clever way to accomplish a task. Watch this [|video] to see examples of classroom hacks.

Meme Generator Voicethread Prezi

Here are Possible Resources:

•Collect sources - SimilarSites.com Easily find similar Websites - Create a personal Learning Environment - Symbaloo •Organize resources -online binders Livebinder -Google Spreadsheet •Cite sources –[] –[] •Analyze reliability of sources –[] –[] - Information Fluency Wizards Provides on-demand help using Google's Search Engine, and evaluating online information •Collect original data -Survey - Google Forms -Collect ideas and vote - Tricider