Croaking!

Croaking novel summaries and making QR codes is coming right along!  Today's focus was reading summaries fluently in the 30 second time period and croaking the summary on the app Croakit.  After practicing and recording the students had to navigate the iPad to listen to their recordings, save it and then send the link off.  In the next lesson the kids will be using the link to make a QR code.  One step at a time! I pushed a few kids that could follow the steps and they were able to create and send me the image of the QR Code! Yay!   In the next mini lesson everyone will be on board. :)

My favorite part of the day was listening to students coach each other, "The word is An-tarc-ti-ca, try it!" She broke apart the works by syllables for her partner then she said Antarctica 2-3 times, they decided she was ready to record. It was a loud room of sharing until recording time, over half the kids went out side in different areas to illuminate distractions or extra noise. 

Partner Practice with timing and focus on reading fluently. Her example 1 below.

Mini lesson was on what good readers sound like to read fluently. This is the rubric I will use to score them this time around, thank you Kagan!

Final time to summarize on Croak it.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example 1: Ms. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

https://croak.it/h/mcid5273dbbaba007

 

Example 2: The Hobbit http://croak.eu/1aZHKZQ