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Listening Comprehension EdTech Options

2/28/2020

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Any elementary or English teacher can tell you that English Language Arts is typically broken down into four strands: Reading, Writing, Language, and Speaking & Listening.  Most educators focus the majority of their explicit instruction on the Reading, Writing, and Language strands, while embedding the Speaking & Listening strand throughout the day.  Because of this, Speaking & Listening is often not explicitly taught.  In addition, many teachers assume students have the skills needed to demonstrate mastery of Speaking & Listening standards.  Unfortunately, this is often not accurate and students usually struggle with listening the most.

Thankfully, there are multiple Ed Tech options that can help educators explicitly teach listening skills to their students.  Three of these options are ReadWorks, Listenwise, and Adobe Spark.


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Website Review: Flipgrid

2/10/2020

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Flipgrid is an amazing Ed Tech website that I often use during Speaking and Listening time with my students.  It can also be used within any other academic subject as well.  Flipgrid allows students to explain their understanding of a concept or answer questions via

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Product Focus: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Complete Package

1/23/2020

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is an amazing book by William Kamkwamba that tells the story of William's survival during a Malawian famine and how he used science to better the life of his family and village.  This book is packed full of ways to teach reading and science standards, as well as introduce global learning and SEL concepts.  Because of this I developed a teaching unit that included comprehension and vocabulary activities for each chapter,

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Website Review: Science News for Students

1/22/2020

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Science News for Students is a free online STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) news article site with NGSS topics for students in 6th-12th grade that are published daily. The website describes the writing level as, "both shorter news stories and longer features, all written with a vocabulary and sentence structure aimed at readers 9 to 14 years old."  It is the kid-friendly version of Science News.  Not only does it provide in-class reading material to supplement units in math, science, and language arts, it also has a list of Power Words within each article. 

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