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My Paperless Classroom Journey: Getting Started
Are you 100% digital in your teaching? If yes… you’re my hero. Seriously. I’ve always been intrigued by 1:1 classrooms – the organization of them, the day-to-day management, the student...
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My Paperless Classroom Journey: Digital Resources
In my last “My Paperless Classroom Journey” post, I introduced a wonderful app for going paperless in your classroom – Notability. I provided an overview of the app features and a general summary of...
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Navigating Digital Texts With Skitch
This month, as I continue my journey toward a more paperless classroom, I’ve been exploring a collection of new apps for interacting with digital text. As many of you know, Notability has been my app...
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My Paperless Classroom Journey: Notability for Teachers
If you’ve been following my paperless journey, this is the third post of my Notability blogging mini-series! Over the past few months, I’ve received some wonderful feedback (thank you!), including a...
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Using iPads for 1:1 Reading Conferences & Assessments
iPads in the classroom are powerful tools, especially for meeting the diverse needs of 21st century learners. My goal as a Literacy Specialist is to find a balance of technology-use within my small...
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Exploring Non-Fiction Text Structures Using iPads
Throughout the year, I’ve been trying to find ways to integrate my set of iPads into my small intervention groups. I’ve been finding great apps for my decoding/fluency groups, but not a ton for my...
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“Project QR Code”— QR Code Summary Posters
For most of my RTI students, summarizing is a challenge, especially when it comes to identifying key details and boiling our summaries down to the most important information. More often than not, text...
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Hello Spring! — Poetry Writing Using iPads
A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post from Grade ONEderful about students writing “Goodbye, Hello” poems. She completed this writing activity with her first graders, but you could really integrate...
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Make Your Own Trading Cards Using iPads
Trading cards are a fun way for students to show what they know! If you have access to iPads in the classroom, check out this great activity for making your own trading cards. How to Make Your Own...
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Using the B.R.E.A.K. Strategy for Text-Based Responses
In an effort to encourage students to use text-based evidence in their written responses this year, the third grade team in my building started using the B.R.E.A.K. writing strategy. Kudos to my...
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