BookFLIX and the Curricular Connection

• Presented by:• Martha Shaw – Columbus School for

Girls

• Phil Salasek – Jackson Local School

• Mary Nemeth – Metropolitan Educational Council

Big Thank You To:• Ohio Department of Education – funding• Phil Salasek – Jackson Local Schools• Karen Coy – HCCA provider• Martha Shaw – Columbus School for Girls• Linda Swarlis – Columbus School for Girls• Caroline Hines – Akron Public Schools• Carrie Waible – OhioNet -- Electronic Resources • Mandy Simon – Bexley Public Library• Gayle Geitgey – INFOhio consultant• Chris Miller – MDECA provider• Terri Shutt – INFOhio Technical Specialist• Terri Fredericka – INFOhio director• Mary Nemeth – Committee Chair

The Solution for Achieving

And Ohio’s Third Grade Reading GuaranteeToday’s students are being asked to read more informational text than ever before. In the past, elementary school students have been required to read more fiction than nonfiction. To meet the Common Core State Standards, half of the reading materials should be nonfiction even at the youngest grades. These informational texts should offer meaningful curriculum knowledge to students. Educators and librarians are asked to provide “texts that build knowledge coherently within and across grades.

The “Flix” Advantage

• BookFlix enables students and teachers to meet the Ohio Learning Standards.

• Supports the Ohio Third Grade Reading Guarantee.– Phonics– Phonemic awareness– Reading fluency– Comprehension– Vocabulary

The “Flix” Advantage

• BookFlix introduces young learners to nonfiction by pairing with popular fiction.

• Learning happens and is engaging.• Students, teachers and schools win.

BookFlix- What is it?•Interactive literacy•Online•Pairing of fiction and nonfiction• The best content:

–Weston Woods–Scholastic–Children’s Press

•Accessible 24/7•Device agnostic end of September 2013•Goal is to build a love of reading in each child

BookFlix• 105 fiction and nonfiction pairs• Interactive e-books• Video• Introduce content-area learning• Spanish Language versions of 31

pairs• Read-Along option• Interactive educational games• Narrated definitions and text-

build vocabulary• Author biographies• Safe, age-appropriate websites• Educator resources--lesson

plans, correlations, and more

BookFlix

• Consists of a library of fiction/nonfiction pairs• Presented in an engaging, fun online format

that will have kids asking to use it again and again

BookFlix and Ohio Learning StandardsUsing BookFlix, students can achieve key goals of the Common Core ELA

Standards:•Read and comprehend literature and informational text•Respond to texts that are read aloud•Access multiple text types•Use technology and digital media strategically and capably

Here are just some of the ways that BookFlix aligns to Common Core ELA Reading Anchor Standards •After reading activities(included in every lesson plan) – Standards 1,2,3•Paired-text activities and Fact and Fiction games help students understand literacy texts and information texts – Standards 3-4•Sequencing games call for students to place the events of the stories – Standard 7•Video storybooks have optional read-along feature that provides scaffolding for reading and comprehending literature – Standard 10

BookFlix-For the Student

• Watch the Story• Read the Book• Puzzlers

– Games• Meet the Author• Explore the Web

Watch the story• Weston Woods video of the fiction book.

• Read along with the video.• 105 stories.

Read the Book• Read the Non-Fiction title. Can be

read to the student or student can read the text without help.

• 105 non-fiction books paired with the fiction books.

Puzzler for each book• Puzzlers to help students recall and

understand the story.

Meet the Author• Short Biographies of the authors of

the books.

Explore the Web• Web Links to help student further

explore the topic.

BookFlix- For the Educator• Lesson Plans• Meet the Author• Curriculum Correlations

– State-Ohio– National– Common Core

• Downloadable Resources– Letters to parents and

teachers– Custom Bookmarks– Poster– Tutorial

Lesson Plans for each book• Located on the book page.

Curriculum Correlations

Be sure to switch to Common Core ELA standards

Curriculum CorrelationsUse the dropdown to explore other Ohio Learning Standards correlations for each book.

Resources for Teachers• Sorts for Curricular connections,

Lexile, subject, etc.

Search BookFLIX in the Title Browse tab

Sort the pairs in Title Browse Tab

Downloadable Resources• Letters for parents, patrons, teachers• Customizable book marks.• Posters

The BookFlix Advantage

• Created and designed especially for PreK-Grade 3

• Read-Aloud feature supports early literacy

• Small group rotations or learning centers

• Supports literacy development

• Research shows the benefits of a balance of fiction and nonfiction as outlined in Ohio Learning Standards and Common Core ELA

• Accessible 24/7

Teachers Use BookFlix• I use BookFlix every week in my

classroom as a whole group or individual activity. - Anna C.

• I use BookFlix everyday during Daily 5 for “Listen to Reading”. – Gail E.

• We use it a lot to go with our units. – Heidi P

• We use it during our reading block for "listen to reading". – Whitney B.

• We use it for whole class learning on fiction/non-fiction and also for stories on holidays and famous people. – Jaime S.

• We use it a lot to go with our units. - Heidi P.

• I also use it when I don't have a hard copy of a book that I want to read to the class. – Tammy M.

• Plus we can always find books that fit with the themes, the skill, or the season. – Gail E.

Kids Love BookFlix• The kids LOVE being able to pick their

own books and they love being able to read along with it. – Tammy M.

• It captures the students' attention the whole time! The kids LOVE it!  - Kim M.

• The students love listening to all of the books that are available on the website. – Jennifer B.

WE LOVE BOOKFLIX!!!!!!!!!• It is an excellent resource for the kids to

watch and listen to books in action. I know this site is especially helpful in helping meet our new Common Core standards and themes. – Kim M.

• What I love is that each pair is fiction and non-fiction. Our curriculum is very heavily non-fiction, so it's always nice to know we can find both on BookFlix. – Whitney B.

• Now with the Common Core- It has a lot of the books I need. – Natalie R.

• BookFlix helps us with Science and Social Studies as well.  It's a nice supplement and sometimes our only resource. - Kim M.

• We LOVE it!  We try to use it daily. – Karri G.

• I like the fiction/nonfiction combination of texts because it fits with what we are working on for common core standards. – Gail E.

• DON'T ever take it from us! – Whitney B.

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