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Creating Readers Apps and App Smashing

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on June 21, 2016 at 5:18:33 pm

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*ShadowPuppet Quick Start Guide @puppet		~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
Lego Movie Maker @LEGO_Group	Create stop motion movies using the free app.	~Students	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
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
About App Smashing	App-Smashing App-Pack X ThingLink Greg Kulowiec's App-Smashing App-Pack with tutorials
Readworks http://www.readworks.org/ @ReadWorks PLUS~~~~ Explain Everything http://explaineverything.com/ @explainevrythng PLUS~~~~ Book Creator http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/ @BookCreatorApp App Smash~~~ 1. Select a passage from ReadWorks	ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. ~~~~~~~ Collaborative and interactive whiteboard. ~~~~~~~ Combine video, text, images and audio to create original works Youtube Playlist ~~~~~~~ 2. Import it into Explain Everything. Students read the passage and use pointer to indicate words as they read.	Skill lessons covering author's purpose, main idea, and many more. ~~~~~~~ ~sketch out a story ~read aloud from text ~~~~~~~ Engage kids in storytelling Teacher-created audiobooks ~~~~~~~ 3. Bring into Book Creator and ask students to add reader response, or share own thoughts about passage.	Reading Passages ~~~~~~~~ The Outsiders Amelia Earhart ~~~~~~~~ Girls Don't Play Basketball by Leah, Age 11 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Idea from Eileen Pasquini @pasqe

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