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PD RESOURCES:
2017-2018 Summer PD CATALOG
DIGITAL RESOURCES:
Simply click on the subject area below to view digital content in your area of interest.
G Suite (Google) resources
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More Examples
Complementary Tools
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RECOMMENDED TECHNOLOGY APPS FOR LITERACY DEVELOPMENT
Click here for a link to free instructional templates and printables.
Recommended Apps for Literacy Development
The following apps have been vetted by educators both in and outside the district, including classroom teachers, reading specialists, special educators, and speech/language pathologists for use in developing
listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
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Key for Users: T= Teacher S= Student F= Family |
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Name of App |
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Free/Cost |
Compatibility |
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T/S/F |
Created by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, this app will help children as well as adults learn to speak and pronounce their sounds more clearly |
PreK-adult |
Free |
iPad, iPhone |
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T/S/F |
Learning to Read Through Phonics Games |
PreK-1 |
Free |
iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch |
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T/S/F |
Virtual magnetic letters. Fluency, word creation. Group or individual. |
PreK-1 |
Cost |
iPad, iPhone |
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S/F |
Phonics Games to practice letters and sounds |
Pre K-1 |
Cost |
iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch |
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F |
Library of reading lessons, stories and songs |
PreK-2 |
Cost- monthly fee after free trial |
iPad, iPhone, and on the web |
End of lesson assessments |
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S/T/F |
An interactive researched based reading intervention for select students. |
All |
Cost |
iPad, iPhone, and on the web |
Progress Monitoring Built into App |
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T/S/F |
Free book titles with narration |
K-3 |
Free |
website |
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T/S/F |
Sign up as a teacher. Set up account for all students. They can choose books to listen to or read on their own. |
Grades PreK-7 |
Free |
iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch |
Progress Monitoring Built into App |
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F |
Interactive Storybooks |
Gr 1-3 |
Cost |
ipad Chromebook, tablet |
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S/T |
eText creation, presentation, record audio and video, images, text, links. |
All |
Free (Limited) |
Chromebook, Windows |
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S/T |
An interactive researched based reading intervention for select students. |
All |
Cost (Free trial)
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Web based |
Progress Monitoring built in |
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S/T |
Free nonfiction passages Comprehension Questions by Read Naturally |
6 levels: Early Reader, 1-5 |
Free |
iPad |
Feedback includes graphs of progress |
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s/T |
4 Vocabulary Games with 24 levels to practice synonyms and antonyms By Read Naturally |
All levels |
$4.99 |
iPad |
Results Report |
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T/S |
Students practice reading aloud passages, on-screen help, translator and dictionary. Comprehension questions |
All- S or T choose age level & Lexile of passage |
Free |
Chromebook, desktop, laptop |
Dashboard manages student progress |
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T/S/F |
Presentation, interactive board, record audio and video, images, text, shapes, links. Record step by step instruction or details. Simple Interface option provides easier use for creation. |
PreK-5 |
$3.99-$5.99 |
Chromebook, iPhone, iPad |
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T/S/F |
Interactive chalkboard slate. Numbers, letters, shapes, word creation, fluency. Group work or individual. Draw together on same wifi- drawings appear on each device. |
All |
Free |
Chromebook |
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Can create pic collages using pictures in connection to learning skills |
All |
Free |
iPad, iPhone, Chromebook |
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S/F |
Interactive leveled e-books |
K-5 |
Cost, free trial |
ipad Chromebook, tablet |
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T/S/F |
Website with free fiction and non-fiction passages and text dependent questions |
5-12 |
Free |
ipad Chromebook, tablet |
Progress Monitoring available |
Mathematics
2017-2018 ASRSD Math Flow Chart
Grades K-5 Core Program: Envision Math - Website
Grades 6-8 Core Program: Eureka Math - Website
Grades 9-12 Core Program: TenMarks Math - Website
Grades 9-12 Supplemental Program: IXL Math - Website
Grades 2-8 Supplemental Program: Accelerated Math - Website
Ipad Apps
Elmo Loves 1,2,3
This is an app full of games, activities, and videos, which will help teach your child about numbers and counting.Abby Monkey Puzzle
Bugs and Numbers
This app covers math skills ranging from basic counting all the way through adding fractions with a model. Beginning Sounds Interactive Games
Pop ABCs-Letters and Letter Sounds
Fun Alphabet Puzzle Game for kids and family Inspiration Maps
Kid in Storybook Maker
Create and share customized picture storybooks with photos of your child or others as the main character!Starfall Learn 2 Read
Pair Up
An addictive educational game that will keep your child engaged while developing their cognitive skills, including language, quantitative and reasoning skills development.
Abby Monkey Puzzle
Puzzles and music
Starfall Learn 2 Read
At last, all the content from Starfall.com's Learn to Read index in an app!
English Language Arts
ReadWorks
Free non-fiction and literary content to support reading comprehension and vocabulary.
Digital Read Works
Free online interactive reading selections, lessons and formative assessment tools
Mrs. Perkins' First Grade Classroom
science and stem
Free Literacy Resources for Your Engineering Classroom
You probably know EiE engineering curriculum aligns with the science curriculum you already teach. But did you know that we designed our curriculum to support literacy instruction as well?
Teachers Try Science
Free and engaging lessons, teaching strategies and resources, designed to spark students’ interest in STEM
National Academies K-12 Framework
The framework identifies the key scientific ideas and practices all students should learn by the end of high school. Designed to make science education more closely resemble the way scientists work and think, the framework envisions that students will gradually deepen their understanding of scientific ideas over time by engaging in practices that scientists and engineers actually use.
Mystery Science Click to Create an Account
Make mysteries of science easy to teach.
NGSS Website (search the standards)
THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SCIENCE LEARNING
Within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), there are three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science. These dimensions are combined to form each standard—or performance expectation—and each dimension works with the other two to help students build a cohesive understanding of science over time.
Next Generation Science Standards (scroll down to review NGSS and see all the standards)
MA STE - What to Look For Guides -
To provide additional support to help district and school staff identify what should be observed in particular content-area classrooms, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), in partnership with educators in the field, has developed a suite of straightforward observation guides for grades 1–8 (K–8 for English Language Arts (ELA)).
These "What to Look For" guides describe what observers should expect to see in a classroom at a particular grade level in a specific subject area. This includes the knowledge and skills students should be learning and using (as reflected in state learning standards) on the front of the page and best practices related to classroom curriculum, instruction, and assessment for each subject area on the back of the page.
Misc Resources
Advancing student success by reducing chronic absence
www.attendanceworks.org
Children's Behaviorial Health Resources
http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/consumer/insurance/cbhi/cbhi-for-educators.html
Children's Behaviorial Health Resources
Please click here for CBHI resource page.
LICENSURE RESOURCES:
Visit the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website for Guidelines, Forms, and Regulations for all Academic Prek-12 licenses.
Middlesex Partnership for Youth:
Middlesex Partnerships for Youth, Inc. is a non-profit 501.c(3) organization that provides training, fosters collaboration, and develops programming to increase the health and safety of students. MPY is committed to bringing cutting-edge information and high quality trainings to our constituents and endeavors to provide solution-oriented, community-based, multi-disciplinary approaches to reducing and ideally eliminating risky behaviors for youth. Visit the website HERE
