I would use graphic organizers to present information to students who would benefit from a visual representation of information. These organizers can also help students organize their thoughts more easily when focusing on a concept in class.
During math instruction, I often have students working in centers. The math tools provide games I can use in one of my centers. I created an account on SumDogMath, a math game website, and plan to incorporate it next week! I believe this will be a fun way for students to reinforce skills and concepts learned during a lesson.
In third grade, our language arts block consists primarily of Daily 5 and CAFE instruction. One of the choices, during Daily 5, is listening to reading. The Story Online site, in the audio books section, allows students to listen to stories read by Screen Actors Guild members. I am thrilled that this site offers an activity guide for each story. I will use this for extension activities on a story.
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Your enthusiasm transcends your blog. The storyline on line is really cool and is a great way to engage students who do not like to read. This site incorporates checkpoints 4.2, 1.1, and 1.2 .
ReplyDeleteLauren, I'm interested to see how your students respond to Sumdog. We use First In Math with our students, and they absolutely hate it! I'll have to play around with that site some more to see if I can incorporate it, too. -- Jess
ReplyDeleteLauren, your log offers great insight to all the technology that is out there that can easily be implemented into the classroom.. Using this technology allows for students to work on their instructional level with little to no frustration.
ReplyDeleteLauren, I think it's great that you not only found the UDL Toolkit but explored it and found some resources you are excited to implement into your classroom. That's awesome that there are resources/activities that you know you can implement into your classroom to help make it more of a UDL classroom. Thank you for sharing the different aspects of the toolkit that you are excited about to implement into your classroom.
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent collection of resources. I really like the recommendation for Popplet. I would like to see how you use it in your 3rd grade classroom.
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