Book Club Books
Reader’s Workshop is a fundamental element of Language Arts in the third grade. To best meet the needs of all learners, adequate books are essential to all classrooms. The goal is to provide students the opportunity to read complex, high-interest text with deep comprehension. The units of study for third grade require readers to work […]
Classroom Audible Book Project
The purpose of this grant is to establish audible books in each Special Education resource room. Books that students can “listen to” will allow us to expose our students to a variety of literary genres. Furthermore, audible books will help to improve reading fluency as well as increase comprehension skills. These skills are the building […]
A “Novel” Way for Integrating Science, Reading, and Character Education in the Science Classroom
It is important for students to understand that different content areas are related, not separate from one another, and scientists are required to read a large variety of materials as a part of their work. This project increases the types of reading materials that students are exposed to in the 6th grade science curriculum and […]
Document Camera – Changing the way we see text
The Hovercam is a document camera that projects text onto the Smartboard by hovering over it, allowing projects to be seen by the whole class. The teacher uses this piece of equipment with mentor texts to teach mini-lessons or with students original work to illustrate good work habits. The level of visual stimulation the Hovercam […]
American Revolution E-book
Ten iPads were purchased for the 7th grade Social Studies classes for a project combining Social Studies and Language Arts. Students are required to analyze and evaluate primary source documents and write ASK style reflective statements. Utilizing the Adobe InDesign application, students can directly interact with historical texts on the iPads while simultaneously creating maps […]