Scholastic White Board Resources

Here's a link to Scholastic's Blog - it has tons of links to interactive activities you can use with the ENO board!

http://blogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching/2011/05/interactive-whiteboard-101-a-resource-of-activities-for-literacy-instruction.html

Wonderopolis

http://wonderopolis.org/ is a great site to get your students thinking and a way to quickly teach concepts and ideas you would not normally get to touch upon. Every day, Wonderopolis posts a new question with a video about the subject attached. The question is then followed with an answer as well as activities that can be used for a home-school connection. One idea for use of the site is to start the class with the question and video displayed on your Eno board. Then have your students 'wonder' what the answer might be. This can be done formally or informally or you can post new ways of using the site.

This is one idea to make this a more formal daily activity:

Name _____________________________________

Wonderopolis # ______

Question ___________________________________

Before Reading I thought the answer to the wonderopolis question might be

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

After watching the video I added or changed my prediction by

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________After reading the answer, I was:

*  On the money! (Correct)

*  Close but no cigar! (Somewhat correct)

*  Totally off base! (Not correct)

Whether we are correct or not, it is always a great strategy to wonder and predict. Now that we know the answer to today’s Wonderopolis question, what is something cool you learned in the reading? ____________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

If you like Starfall.com .. ... ..

If you are a fan of Strafall.com, try out this website for the primary grades: http://www.abcmouse.com//home#home/homepage
It is an excellent resource for parents that you can even present at Meet the Teacher night. There are many interactive games that can be utilized with the Eno board in the classroom as well. When accessing the site, it will prompt you to chose a membership type.  Choose the free one, it is all you need!

Professor Garfield

Looking for some more interactive activites? The Teacher's Lounge on Professor Garfield's website has many interactive activities from k-8. The activities range from Literacy to Math to Social Studies, and the games are all highly engaging! http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/instructions/contentbygrade.html

Peter's Power Point Station

Just found this one! Fun interactive primary activities for the Eno board. Check it out: www.pppst.com

Rule Time!

It is September and the time to set classroom rules again. Need a fun new way to introduce the rules as well as keeping it interactive and student generated? Here is a great idea from Science NetLinks: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.php?DocID=293

Construct-A-Word

Here is a fun little tool for your Eno board from Read-Write-Think to brush up on chunks with first and second grades: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/

Creating Enthusiasm for New Vocabulary

How excited would you be to see your students pouring through text, dissecting words, and doing it with enthusiasm? I was very excited to see just that while conducting this activity with my groups of 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th grade ESL students.

I first gave my students a reading passage and a highlighter. The passage that I chose had an inferencing activity and we refreshed this reading strategy (Which we have worked on many time before). I read the passage aloud to the students while they highlighted words they did not know. As we finished reading each paragraph, we discussed the words in question. After completing the reading and inferencing activity we then moved to the fun part, Hangman. Using the Eno board and the Hangman game in the Easiteach program installed on our Mac Books, I entered one of the words we had discussed as a class. The Easiteach version of Hangman allows for you to enter a hint as well; here I entered the definition of the word.

What followed was a highly interactive vocabulary-word game. The kids worked together as a team going through the text to figure out the mystery word while using traditional Hangman strategies. You can use any interactive Hangman program for this activity and any reading passage. I like the reading passages from http://www.extrareading.com/ . They tend to include a variety of vocabulary and are of high interest. The readings are based on particular reading strategies.

Hope that you too can use this activity to create a fun vocabulary activity with your students, having fun is the easiest and best way to learn!

Welcome

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