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Creating Readers Apps and App Smashing

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Apps

Name

Description

Suggestions for Use

Examples

*ShadowPuppet

Quick Start Guide

@puppet

Easily create videos in the classroom! Students as young as five can make videos to tell stories, explain ideas or docment their learning. 30+ lesson ideas supporting Common Core make it easy to get started!

~Practice reading aloud from a book or poem
~Summarize a story describing beginning, middle and end
~Diagram a sentence or describe grammar rules
~Create an infomercial for a make-believe product
~Describe the steps of how to make something
~Practice spelling by sounding out words

Third Grade Examples

Chatterpix

@ChatterPixIt

Similar to Blabberize, Chatterpix allows students to take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record their voice.

~book reports

~book trailers

~biography report

Book Report

Yakit Kids

From the iTunes store

@FreakGenius

This app can bring any photo/artwork to life with comical and cool features. Simply take or select a picture and highlight the mouth and record your voice to make your very own talking character. Tweak your video by changing the voice pitch, add special effects.

Demo video

~create a Yakit using new vocabulary

~bring a story character to life

~ create a YAKiT of major characters from classroom novels or outside reading

Examples

Tellagami

https://tellagami.com/

@tellagami

The Tellagami App is free. Tellagami Edu allows for more options and costs $4.99

Graphite Review

~create a character from a book or story to explain motivation or recap story

~recite or read original work

~read from a book or story

~book reviews

Book Reviews from Mrs. Griffin's Library

Lego Movie Maker

@LEGO_Group

Create stop motion movies using the free app.

Tutorial

~Students create movie to act out scene or story

~Visual representation of vocabulary words

~No Lego needed! Students can create with clay or play-doh

The Hobbit

UsTyme

http://ustyme.com/library.html

Freemium App allows for video calls to read books together, which are built into the program, or to play games.

~Connect students with older students

~Connect students with reading buddies

Sample screen shot

Green Screen DoInk

@DoInkTweets

Take photos and place them on a background photo

~Students layer photo of themselves over book cover for reviews or reader response

~Take photo of text and students can record themselves reading

HS students critiquing film version of Romeo and Juliet

ThingLink

https://www.thinglink.com/

@ThingLink

Make your images come alive with private video, notes, or even music from YouTube.

~Support vocabulary by linking to images representing meaning

~Insert links to answer text-dependent questions

~Interactive book talk

~Interactive author study

Laurie Halse Anderson

Literary Analysis ThingLink

App Smashing

App Smashing is the process of using multiple apps to create projects or complete tasks. App Smashing can provide your students with creative and inspired ways to showcase their learning and allow you to assess their understanding and skills. By introducing your students to a core of key apps, giving them the parameters of the project, and supporting them as they learn and create, you will very quickly be facilitating App Smashing in your classroom.

From: http://k12technology.weebly.com/app-smashing.html

Start With~~~

Readworks

http://www.readworks.org/

@ReadWorks

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ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.

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~Skill lessons covering author's purpose, main idea, and many more.

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Reading Passages

PLUS~~~~

Explain Everything

http://explaineverything.com/

@explainevrythng

(Free alternative: ShowMe)

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Collaborative and interactive whiteboard. ($5.99)

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