The actions I took this week provided a variety of positive feedback. My students that are using PhotoBooth to help practice fluency all saw a growth in their number of words correct read in a minute. It was neat to see how they reacted to their final timed reading with me because several commented by saying something about how they didn’t make the same error while practicing because they watched themselves and knew to pay close attention to that part in the passage. I have also viewed some tutorials about Discovery Education that has enabled me to pick out meaningful videos to show my class. One we were able to show was based on first women. In Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first women governor. We celebrated her accomplishments on Monday and I was able to show a video clip about government and her.
I still need to learn how to take the Discovery Education program and assign students a video clip with a quiz they are required to complete. I will be watching more tutorials based on this during this week to accomplish this goal. In order to meet the needs of my students, they will continue to practice fluency on PhotoBooth to ensure an increase in fluency to reach our year-end grade level goals.
I like reading your use of photobooth in order to increase your student's reading abilities. My wife is a middle school reading/language arts teacher as well. Keep me posted on your progress.
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