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.
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