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 * Common Core Literacy and Writing Ideas K-12 **

Monday, July 20, 2015 6:00 - 8:00pm Eastern

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Links/files mentioned or used during this session:  Share 1 – [|TeachersFirst] [|Overview of Common Core ELA standards] [|Teachersfirst items tagged for Common Core] [|Help I Lost My Media Specialist] [|Readworks] reading comprehension for curriculum [|Learnzillion] video lessons [|Read Theory] over 1,000 reading comprehension activities

Common Core Differentiation [|Story Share] relevant, readable content for older students reading at the elementary level

Share 2 – K-12 Reading: Literature [|CurriConnects] from TeachersFirst: Books related to topics [|Lit Pick] preteen and teen literature reviewed by students Curriculet e-reader with Common Core quizzes

Digital Literacy [|We Tell Stories]- six different stories and authors each using a different type of technology to help tell the story K-12 Reading: Informational Text [|Tween Tribune] news and quizzes for the entire class at each student's Lexile level, teacher dashboard included [|Newsela] news and quizzes for the entire class at each student's Lexile level [|Seriously Amazing] from Smithsonian: a mosaic of unusual questions and answers [|**Why Files- Middle School] explains the serious science behind everyday questions

Share 3 – K-12 Writing Prompts Thought Questions -open-ended questions Writing Fix -six traits writing plus multi-grade level, full lessons for "mentor" books for each trait Write It from Scholastic for grades 6-12 write and publish with lots of help

Organizing, Writing, and Revising Exploratree mind maps/graphic organizers, thinking guides Virtual Sentence Board K-2 practice sentence writing or sight words Penflip share your writing with others for peer editing, like Google docs but much more powerful, save first draft, comments, and more

Language/Grammar Word Hippo snyonyms, antonyms, rhyming words, and more Quill interactive grammar Common Core and grade level aligned Word Clouds for Kids (ABCYA) use for new vocab words, copy and paste words from a reading

Share 4 – K-12 Writing <span style="color: #f0cc12; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">K-12 Speaking/Listening Listen a Minute one minute listening exercises with quizzes Spreakr create a live Internet radio show

Suggested for Additional Resources <span style="color: #d9011b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 21.3333339691162px;">Share 1 – Additional resources [|Engage New York] explanatory documents and videos for Common Core [|CPalms] Common Core lessons and resources

= Common Core Differentiation = **[|Books that Grow]** one story adjusted to different reading levels [|M-Reader] Penguin graded reader quizzes, classic re-written for lower reading levels

<span style="color: #0f17cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Share 2 –Additional Resources <span style="color: #0f17cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">K-12 Reading: Literature (additional resources) [|Story Bee] hundreds of stories with audio [|TeachersFirst's Collection of Audio Books] [|Poem Hunter] a search engine for finding poems, lyrics, and quotation [|Poetry Idea Engine] "how to" haiku, limerics, free verse and more [|BiblioNasium] a reading social platform for ages 6 to 12 [|Actively Learn]

<span style="color: #0f17cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">K-12 Reading: Informational Text (additional resources) [|Keyword Search - Informational Text] [|GoGo News] "Big News for Little People" [|National Geographic Kids] news for kids, focused on environmental issues [|Tween Tribune] news and quizzes for the entire class at each student's Lexile level, teacher dashboard included [|Red Hoop] aggregates online courses and video series by your topic [|Zoom In] 10 American history lessons aligned with Common Core, and much more [|YoungZine] news, videos, and more for the young [|Digital Public Library of America] collections of public libraries and museums

<span style="color: #0f17cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">K-5 Foundation Skills (phonics, spelling, suffixes, etc..)- (additional resources) TeachersFirst [|PreK Tag] TeachersFirst [|Phonics Tag] TeachersFirst [|Sight Words Tag] [|Reading Rockets] a comprehensive guide for parents, teachers and many others to keep kids reading. Find classroom strategies, how to help struggling reader and more.k [|ABCYA] educational activities for every subject

<span style="color: #0f17cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some of Our Top Choices for products for reading accountability with technology: (additional resources)
 * Elementary - [|Corkboard] create an old fashioned bulletin board with images, notes, lists, and more
 * Upper Elementary/Middle School - [|Smore] create multi-media posters
 * Middle School/High School - [|Biteslide] Glogster-like posters (multi-media, templates, fonts, colors, and tons more tools)

<span style="color: #0e781f; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Share 3 – K-12 Writing <span style="color: #0e781f; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prompts (additional resources) Writing Prompts inspiring images with prompts Visual Writing Prompts images, prompts and additional discussion questions Blog Topic Generator input just three words and get a weeks worth of blog topics

<span style="color: #0e781f; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Organizing, Writing, and Revising (additional resources) 25 Language Arts Graphic Organizers Write About for elementary students: prompts, teachers and students can comment and edit, and publishing Hemingway color coded suggestions for wordiness, weak adverb use, passive voice, and complicated words and phrases.

<span style="color: #0e781f; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Language/Grammar (additioanl resources) Grammar Practice Park (Grade 3) Grammar Practice Park (Grade 4) - also available for Grade 5 noredink interactive grammar using student's interests and friend's names Tagcrowd students can paste their writing into a word cloud to look for over-used words

<span style="color: #f0cc12; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Share 4 – K-12 Writing <span style="color: #f0cc12; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">K-12 Speaking/Listening (additional resources) History and Politics Outloud famous speeches Voicethread create narration and sound tracks for images

<span style="color: #f0cc12; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Suggested projects to incorporate Common Core Writing Standards (additional resources) Classroom Authors four easy steps for writing an publishing an ebook, teacher dashboard/management tools Bookemon create an ebook with an edCenter - teacher dashboard/management tools Storybird create an ebook, up load student art - teacher dashboard/management tools Inklewriter create an interactive story (choose your own adventure) Slide Story Create a slideshow with voice narrations and images at Moovly Animation tool for creating videos and presentations PowToon create animated videos
 * Lower elementary students create & tell their own stories
 * Upper elementary & middle school students tell their own stories OR create one around your subject matter
 * Middle & high school students create a story around your subject matter

<span style="color: #f0cc12; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For All Ages


 * Create a story around your subject matter using an interactive create your own adventure tool.

Inklewriter create an interactive story (choose your own adventure) Rootbook create an interactive story (choose your own adventure)

<span style="color: #0f17cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some of Our Top Choices for products with technology:

Flipboard read and create magazines with web tools Podomatic create podcast Peardeck create an interactive presentations Google Lit Trips annotated maps on Google Earth for great literature Presentation Tools from the TeachersFirst Edge

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 3438.5px; width: 1px;"> [|Engage New York Common Core Toolkit] explanatory documents and videos for Common Core <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 4664px; width: 1px;"> <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 4664px; width: 1px;"> <span style="color: #0f17cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some of Our Top Choices for products for reading accountability with technology: Elementary - [|Corkboard] create an old fashioned bulletin board with images, notes, lists, and more Upper Elementary/Middle School - [|Smore] create multi-media posters Middle School/High School - [|Biteslide] Glogster-like posters (multi-media, templates, fonts, colors, and tons more tools) <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 2303px; width: 1px;"><span style="color: #0e781f; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prompts - <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 2256px; width: 1px;"><span style="color: #d9011b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 21.3333339691162px; line-height: 32px;">Share 1 –