Through Technology Integration

M.Socrative.com  Free online Software for student responses Works on any device with a browser ○ iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Kindle, etc… Use as a means to assess understanding during a lesson, polling, and ordering Gives immediate formative assessment data to determine the overall understanding of the concepts

Lesson Example for Socrative  Organization of thoughts Have students review a sample body paragraph that has been reordered They are asked to put the sentences in the order that best conveys the idea and flow desired in the paragraph Each sentence has a letter assigned to it, students are asked to choose the letter of the first sentence. The results will be displayed on the socrative site and will provide the instructor the number of correct response. The process will be repeated for the remainder of the paragraph

ReadWriteThink.org  Maps/Graphic Organizers Essay Maps Compare and Contrast Maps Persuasion Maps  Online Guides

Lesson Ideas for ReadWriteThink  Before beginning an essay have students organize their ideas using a graphic organizer  Students will navigate to the ReadWriteThink website and use the essay map to compile an outline  They will save the outline to their computer as a PDF file  This is good pre-write strategy and also a means of differentiating

Solo Literacy Suite  CoWriter Floating tool used to predict text ○ It assists with spelling and provides synonyms  Read Outloud Reads mulitple document types including websites, PDF files, and Office Documents It assists with students who have poor reading skills  Write Outloud Reads back to students as they type ○ Can be set to read letters, words, sentence, and Paragraphs ○ Assists in error correct as student hear back what they write  Draft Builder Graphic Organizer tool ○ Assists in the organization process of writing

Lesson Idea for Solo  Students have a tendency to leave out words or use the wrong spelling of a word in their writing.  Using Write OutLoud as an editing tool will help remove this issue.  Have students copy and paste their essays/paragraphs from their word processor into Write OutLoud  Students will use the speak function to have the words and sentences read out loud to them. They will be able to hear their mistakes and then they can correct them  In addition to hearing the mistakes, Solo takes into account homophones and has a tool that will search a document for homophones and provides definitions for each of the homophones so that the students can select the correct one

Google Docs  Online document creation (FREE!) Has research tool! ○ Assists in finding quotes ○ Assists in finding scholarly documents ○ Formats MLA citations Easier than Noodle tools

Lesson Idea  Have students create a Google account  They will then use Google Docs to create a work cited page.  They will utilize the research tool and search out their internet based informational sites  They will use the cite option under the research tool to have Google Docs create the proper MLA citation for each one

PaperRater.com  Free online software that provides students feedback on style, grammar, word choice, and spelling Customizable to level of writer Not all grammar errors are caught  Vocabulary Building tool Random word generator is great for group work or sharing activities as an extension or SAT prep activity

Lesson Idea  Have students who are in the edit and revision portion of the writing process upload their essay to Paperrater.com after they have self reviewed and peer reviewed  They will use its free functions to assess their style, word choice, and grammar issues  This will give them additional correction to make to their essays that may have been missed in the other processes.

Turnitin.com  Site primarily used for plagiarism (originality) report  Grade Mark product helps speed up grading of essays Provide standard comments to essays by dragging them to the paper Leave voice comments for students hear Grade using online rubrics to speed up scoring

Sample Grade Mark

Wrap up  Writing process solutions  Immediate feedback  Differentiation and accommodations  Saves time