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 Becky Albertazzi                   Home        Learn More        Standards        Inspiration        About the Author


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Links
​edutopia.org- an educational website that contains lessons, articles and videos.

​Shakeuplearning.com- a teacher made site to help with all things Google.
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Voice-21.org- The website that includes resources, videos and Oracy framework from School 21. School 21 was featured in the Edutopia video.

​Alicekeeler.com- a teacher created website focused on technology and good instruction.


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Favorite Technology Tools
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Toontastic- Cartoon storytelling.  Student record their voice over the story.

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Fluency Tutor for Google- Teachers can send student reading passages.  Students can record, re-record and listen to their own fluency.  They can turn in their best recording to their teacher through Google Classroom.

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Kahoot- Fun game based way to check for understanding and get kids talking.


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Socrative- Similar to Kahoot.  Students team up to answer questions collaboratively and watch their space ship race others.

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Canva- Amazing graphic design tool to create infographics, blog headings, posters, slide show and more.  It is a Freemium site, so not recommended for young students.

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​Screencast-o-matic- Free and super easy way to create voiceovers.  Easy enough for students to use.

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Adobe Spark- Free site to make "glide shows", short videos with voiceover, and many other presentations.  Easy to use.

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Padlet- Create collaborative "bulletin boards" with your class.  Add pictures, text, video or any content and have students reply on the board.  Great collaboration & communication tool.
 

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Recommended Reading
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Visible Learning for Literacy by Nancy Fisher, Douglas Frey & John Hattie- Research based strategies for literacy.



Academic Conversations by Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford- Improving classroom talk and academic conversations.
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Content-Area Conversations by
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Carol Rothenberg- Planning purposeful academic conversations to improve learning.

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Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church & Karin Morrison- A great book about creating conversations to spark inquiry.




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Rigorous PBL by Design by Michael McDowell-A guide to creating standards based PBL units rich with feedback and based in research.
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ELL Shadowing as a Catalyst for Change by Ivannia Soto- A guide to how use ELL Shadowing protocol to the close achievement gap.

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Academic Papers
​The relations between word reading, oral language, and reading comprehension in children who speak english as a first (L1) and second language (L2): A multigroup structural analysis. Babayiit, S. (2015).  Reading and Writing, 28(4), 527-544.
​Developmental Changes in the Nature of Language Proficiency and Reading Fluency Paint a More Complex View of Reading Comprehension in ELL and EL1. Geva, E., & Farnia, F. (2012).  Reading And Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25(8), 1819-1845.
The development of vocabulary in English as a second language children and its role in predicting word recognition ability. Jean, M., & Geva, E. (2009).  Applied Psycholinguistics, 30(1), 153-185
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