Welcome to Mrs. Tindle's Technology Toolbox. This blog is designed to give teachers a "toolbox" of technology tips. Integrating technology into the curriculum is vital in today's classroom. Student engagement can be at its highest levels when students use technology to meet objectives. When students are allowed the opportunity to use technology in their classroom, they many times become completely engaged. Often times when students are using technology, they are creating something. When students are creating, they are using higher order thinking skills. This means student engagement is at its highest.To gather new ideas for your classroom, just click on a curriculum topic to the left. There you will hopefully find new ways to integrate technology into your curriculum and classroom.

Reading

Read Works

Read Works is a website that offers free reading resources that are skill and grade specific.  This website can be used independently to build skills.  All the lessons and student pages are PDF files.  To integrate it into technology, you can download the lesson and then save it to classroom sites such as Edmodo.  The reading passages come with comprehension questions.  A teacher can post the reading passage and then if using Edmodo, create a quiz using the provided questions.  This site is as great tool for supplementing a previous curriculum. 

If you are not using Edmodo, you can open the ReadWorks passage from your ipad and then select to save in your iBook.  From there, your students can assess the passage.

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