App Ideas for Reading Skills Practice???
I was asked by a NISD librarian for any APP ideas you all might have for practicing BASIC reading skills.
She has a group of 1st graders who are working on their basic reading skills. She is wanting to incorporate the use of her iPods to help give them additional individualized practice.
If you have a tried and true (FREE) reading app that you use with students to practice basic reading skills, please share it in the comments!
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Monday, February 4, 2013
Friday, February 3, 2012
HMH WriteSource Online
HMH WriteSource Online
This is just an FYI...
Recently many of your teachers recieved an email, "Welcome to HMH's WriteSource e-learning platform"...
I'm sorry if this caused any confusion. During the district's efforts to upload teachers into the system for access, it was not told to us that that email blast to teachers would occur. That email can be deleted.
HMH WriteSource is the online supplemental material for this year's adopted writing textbook for elemetary. This adoption is being used by TEACHERS: grades 2-5, reading specialists, language support teachers, academic support teachers, and special education teachers. It will eventually also be used for STUDENTS: grades 2-5. That upload has NOT occured at this time. I will let you know when I have an update.
Your campus' Literacy Leaders will be facilitating the effort for getting teachers acquainted with this resource and will be the point person for WriteSource. Here is an email shared by Carolyn Denny to her Literacy Leaders on each campus...
Teachers received emails regarding registration for the HMH WriteSource e-learning platform before you could be notified. A five-minute video can be found in the Elementary Language Arts & Reading Moodle explaining the registration process and how to access products.
Students are in the process of being populated in the system.
Teachers should use the 4x4 password (first 4 of last name and last 4 of SSN).
CITs, if you are interested in viewing the video overview of WriteSource and are just interested in seeing what materials are in the Elementary Language Arts & Reading Moodle, Carolyn Denny has WELCOMED you all to "enrol in the course"...here is how you get there the first time.
Go to the PLC-2 Moodle and login with your network login and password
Under Courses, Click on Elemetnary Language Arts & Reading and Enroll in Course
Scroll down to Section 6
You will find the 7-minute video under Miscellaneous Videos
Again, Carolyn has WELCOMED us all to be enrolled and see what resources and information is in their Moodle space!
This is just an FYI...
Recently many of your teachers recieved an email, "Welcome to HMH's WriteSource e-learning platform"...
I'm sorry if this caused any confusion. During the district's efforts to upload teachers into the system for access, it was not told to us that that email blast to teachers would occur. That email can be deleted.
HMH WriteSource is the online supplemental material for this year's adopted writing textbook for elemetary. This adoption is being used by TEACHERS: grades 2-5, reading specialists, language support teachers, academic support teachers, and special education teachers. It will eventually also be used for STUDENTS: grades 2-5. That upload has NOT occured at this time. I will let you know when I have an update.
Your campus' Literacy Leaders will be facilitating the effort for getting teachers acquainted with this resource and will be the point person for WriteSource. Here is an email shared by Carolyn Denny to her Literacy Leaders on each campus...
Teachers received emails regarding registration for the HMH WriteSource e-learning platform before you could be notified. A five-minute video can be found in the Elementary Language Arts & Reading Moodle explaining the registration process and how to access products.
Students are in the process of being populated in the system.
Teachers should use the 4x4 password (first 4 of last name and last 4 of SSN).
CITs, if you are interested in viewing the video overview of WriteSource and are just interested in seeing what materials are in the Elementary Language Arts & Reading Moodle, Carolyn Denny has WELCOMED you all to "enrol in the course"...here is how you get there the first time.
Go to the PLC-2 Moodle and login with your network login and password
Under Courses, Click on Elemetnary Language Arts & Reading and Enroll in Course
Scroll down to Section 6
You will find the 7-minute video under Miscellaneous Videos
Again, Carolyn has WELCOMED us all to be enrolled and see what resources and information is in their Moodle space!
Friday, September 3, 2010
K-5 Reading Textbook Adoption 2010-2011
K-5 Reading Textbook Adoption 2010-2011
Just an FYI...
Carolyn Denny and I are working closely together and are in the process of acquiring ALL of the K-5 Reading Textbook Software from the vendor...to be officially evaled in R-TIME.
None of it has been evaluated or looked at in R-TIME at this time and CAN NOT be installed at this time.
Please know that I will send you updates ASAP as we get them...
Things to be determined once we are able to get the software in house:
1. What software is available ONLINE within Think Central?
2. What software will NOT be installed because it is available ONLINE within Think Central?
3. What software might not need to be installed because it is "plug and play?"
2. What software will NOT be installed because it is available ONLINE within Think Central?
3. What software might not need to be installed because it is "plug and play?"
4. After eval, what will the install plan be district-wide?
Those are the questions I can think of right now :)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Fountas and Pinnell Lesson Resources - Printing FIX
Fountas and Pinnell Lesson Resources - Printing FIX
One of the components of the Fountas and Pinnell Literacy Intervention software is the Lesson Resources. This software does NOT require an install...YEAH!!! It is a CD with a PDF resources.
There have been problems with the printing of these PDFs to the Dell 1720 (a local printer) and to the Dell 1720 (a local printer). NOTE: There may be other printers having problems, but these have been the only two reported.
The FIX is to "print the document" to the MS Office Document Imagewriter, which will save the document as a .tif file...then the saved document can be printed.
Another solution is to send these PDFs to a network printer to print. Network printers have NOT shown any problems in printing these documents as is.
If I learn anything new on this topic, OR, an alternate FIX is found...I'll pass it along!!!
One of the components of the Fountas and Pinnell Literacy Intervention software is the Lesson Resources. This software does NOT require an install...YEAH!!! It is a CD with a PDF resources.
There have been problems with the printing of these PDFs to the Dell 1720 (a local printer) and to the Dell 1720 (a local printer). NOTE: There may be other printers having problems, but these have been the only two reported.
The FIX is to "print the document" to the MS Office Document Imagewriter, which will save the document as a .tif file...then the saved document can be printed.
Another solution is to send these PDFs to a network printer to print. Network printers have NOT shown any problems in printing these documents as is.
If I learn anything new on this topic, OR, an alternate FIX is found...I'll pass it along!!!
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