Sunday, May 20, 2012

Reading Apps

Applications designed to assist in teaching Reading Strategies and Skills.
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Common Core Discussion Stems for Primary- K, 1, or 2
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Choose your grade level below- Kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd grade Common Core State Standards.
Common Core State Standards are changing the way we teach, beginning in Kindergarten. This booklet helps teachers scaffold their questioning and deepen students' understanding of literature and informational text. It features two levels of discussion stems for whole and small group instruction (one for general discussion and one for turn and talk opportunities), performance tasks, and bonus critical thinking questions. The book functions as a "two-in-one" flip book; flip one way for Reading Literature, flip the other way for Reading Informational Text. 28 page flip book.
Price: $9.99

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Summarizing for Fiction
Use this interactive app with your students to introduce, remediate, or refresh the concept of asking yourself questions while reading literature. Asking questions is something we all do every day. Learning how to take that same skill of asking questions and applying it when we read will improve your students’ comprehension.
Price: $2.99
Simply Ask Questions for Fiction
Good readers are detectives- putting clues together that the author gives them. Students will learn the self-questioning Strategy for reading comprehension and retention.
Price: $2.99

Enhanced Brain Pictures
Builds upon Brain Pictures, by tapping into the other senses of feeling, touching, tasting, and smelling. Authors use the 5 senses to further enhance or create images in the reader's mind. When students learn to pay attention to the images in their mind, comprehension is increased in leaps and bounds!
Price: $2.99

Brain Pictures
Reading Strategy: Visualization, or the Pictures in your Mind. Use this app to activate your students' ability to recognize and use the Strategy of visualization while reading, for better comprehension.
Price: $2.99
Core Subject Areas & their Text Structures
Identifying Text Patterns Found in Textbooks When students understand how textbooks use specific text structures, they will find their comprehension increases. Whether it is reading literature, a science concept or an experiment, events in social studies or even a math word problem, textbooks follow a framework. Discovering the text structure allows students to anticipate what they are going to learn. By sharing this information with your students, they can concentrate on the topic. They will be able to remember where the information is located in case they have to go back and find an answer to chapter questions, participate in a discussion, take notes, and make connections to the content. They will be better prepared to demonstrate what they comprehended from a textbook. Includes a bookmark you can use with students.
Price: $2.99
The Power of Prediction
The Power of Prediction
Prediction is a powerful strategy to improve reading comprehension. It is a skill that we all use, but we don't necessarily realize it. Harness this skill and learn how to consciously use it, and your reading comprehension can improve dramatically.
Prediction Practice
Prediction Practice
Practice with the strategy of Prediction. This app is perfect as a companion to the Power of Prediction app, and includes practice only. Perfect as a reinforcement or center activity.