Curriculet is an easy-to-navigate e-reading platform with a built-in loaning library. What's more, teachers can embed a variety of "checkpoints," or assessment items for students, within texts. The library primarily includes public domain literature, searchable by categories like grade level and genre. While you'll find a range of classics from Shakespeare to Mark Twain, there aren't as many contemporary titles at present. That said, teachers can upload their own texts to the library in a variety of formats, including PDFs, Word documents, Google Docs, or websites. After selecting texts, teachers can get to work adding a variety of checkpoints to help guide students' reading. Checkpoint options include multiple-choice, short-answer, annotations, or hyperlinks -- these can be aligned to various ELA Common Core standards. Grouped together, the collected checkpoints for a text are called Curriculets. The lending library includes a number of texts with ready-made Curriculets -- teachers can use these as is, edit them, or even create their own from scratch. All Curriculets are customizable and shareable. Within the texts, students attend to checkpoints as they read, getting instant feedback on the multiple-choice questions. In fact, students can't proceed to the next page of text without completing each checkpoint. Using the e-reader's tools, students can search a text, adjust the font size, make annotations, and look up definitions of unknown words. For teachers, the platform offers a quick way to grade short-answer questions, as well as provide detailed data reports for each student.
Actively Learn is a free online e-reader where students can highlight and annotate text as they read. Teachers can assign texts to groups of students to interact with. The site contains thousands of free ELA, history, and science texts. Teachers can add their own documents to the site for students to read. There are also options to purchase or rent copyrighted materials. Most of the titles on the site include "Layers" which are Common Core-Alligned questions for discussions and interactions. These questions do a nice job at engaging students with the text. Kids can also add their own questions. This option is good for students who might be reluctant to raise their hands. You can use the questions or other observations to guide your own discussions or lessons. Teachers can monitor each individual student's progress and see the notes that they are writing. |
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