Bb Enhances RS Curriculum

Use Blackboard to Enhance Your

Reading Street Curriculum

Diana BaileyDeerfield Elementary 5th grade

Beginning Screen shots from the TE Journals linked with main passage Videos with concepts & activities Graphic organizers

Blackboard Unit 1

More organized Created a module for weekly vocabulary Linked to RS Added activities to spelling concept Discontinued time consuming stuff Looked to incorporate more accountability

Newsela Google docs with slueth See saw

Blackboard Unit 2

Bright Idea Talked with collegues K-5 Incorporated the best of what they all were doing

Weekly vocabulary Newsela (current events) Sleuth with google forms Videos Independent reading module Social Studies and Science Blackboard Unit 3

Created a BLANK unit to copy

What are our colleagues doing? This is a screen shot from Keri Lauxman’s

high school English class Acronym: LPATLearn

PracticeApplyTeach

Paula Barr’s Second Grade ELA

Now…time to create! Questions? Other suggestions from the group

Not sure where to start? Work with small groups Go to youtube, find comprehension strategies Create a module for weekly vocabulary Create a Sleuth station Independent reading module http://www.scottsboro.org/~flewis/index.html