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Vocabulary  Scholastic

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on June 16, 2013 at 2:28:17 pm
 

 

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/

Rea Cobre and Maya Nagata

     Scholastic is run by the Scholastic book company and offers many resources for teachers in more areas than just reading and literacy. This particular website gives a variety of options for parents, students, and teachers to browse through to help their students with classroom learning. This website is a helpful tool for teachers to help them develop strategies to teach some of their lessons in their classrooms. It presents teachers with different activities they can do in class or even simply just looking for books to implement in lessons Some of the online tools available for teachers and students are the Student Skill Builders, which are offered for spelling, writing, social studies, science and nature, creativity, and vocabulary. These Student Skill Builders, which can be found here http://teacher.scholastic.com/tools/, offer various online games and activities to help with these subject areas. 

 

     Under the Vocabulary section, there are three online activities the students can utilize: Flash Card Maker, Listen & Read, and Nina Names Things. Each of these activities offer the students a different skill or resource they can use for vocabulary help. Flash Card Maker allows the student to create electronic flash cards, and it includes a test mode which hides the answer side of the flash card. Listen & Read offers short online books that are read aloud to the students while they can follow along. At the end of the stories there are short activities that review new vocabulary or facts they have learned. Nina Names Things takes the students to different places like the zoo and the airport and asks them to select all the words belonging in the place they are at. Nina also reads aloud the words so they can hear the word they are selecting.

 

Tutorial

 

 1. The URL above will take you to the Flash Card Maker home page (this is the same place that clicking on the Flash Card Maker from the Student Skill Builders menu at the top of the page). Once at the home page click on the WORDS button which will take you to this page pictured to the left. 

 2. From here students can directly type in the information for their flash cards. The left column of text boxes is for the front side of the first four flash cards (each box represents the front of a different flash card). The text boxes to the right of the “front” boxes are the respective “backs” of the first four flash cards. The complete flash card is seen by the numbers that connect the front and back of one flash card: 1)Front & 1)Back complete one flash card. 

 3. Once all the flash cards are created, click See It! >.

 4. Now you will be able to flip through the completed flash cards. The “front” cards have ? symbol on them and the “back” cards have an A on them (? for question and A for answer).

 5. The image to the right is what you will see after clicking on the See It! button. TEST MODE will take you through the flash cards and only show the ? side to test what you know for the A side of that question. You go through this for each card. 

 6. As you move through the flash cards you have three options: print, edit, start over. PRINT allows you to print out the cards you’ve created. EDIT allows you to edit anything on the cards you have created. START OVER will delete all the flash cards you currently have and take you back to the screen where you add words to your flash cards. Clicking the start over button will allow you to create a whole new set of flash cards. 

 

  1. Clicking the link above will take you to a list of Listen & Read books available online. 
  2. Once there select a book and it will take you to a screen like the one below. This page gives a brief description of the story, the grade level, and the short activity at the end of the story. From here click on Go to the Activity. This will take you to the online book.

 3. Next, click on START READING

 4. The book will begin and as the reader reads the words, the student can follow along. The student will control when the reader starts that page by clicking on LISTEN. The student also controls when they move onto the next page using the arrows on the screen.

 5. At the end of the story there is an activity called Sound It Out. This activity goes over some of the words from the story again. The students have the option to hear it read to them again by clicking its respective LISTEN button.

 6. From here, students have the option to READ AGAIN or find MORE BOOKS by clicking on the respective buttons.  

 

 

  1. Clicking on the link above will take you to the home page of the game Nina Names Things. In this game the student or teacher selects the location or place the game is going to take place at. Click on the place you want to go to.
  2. Listen to the directions read to you and follow. (Drag the items that belong in the location you’ve selected into the box.
  3. Once you are done you can either continue to play in the same location or move to a different one. This can be done when the menu pops up, signifying you selected all the necessary things.  

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