Remote Literacy Lessons

This is part one of a guided novel study geared towards one of my sixth-grade reading groups. The students in the group played baseball and our unit theme was "survival." In writing, we were studying peotry, and so this is a novel in verse.

The video strives to meet the needs of audio and visual learners. I use pre-reading strategies to begin the video and then I use during reading strategies by posting slides that highlight main ideas. Then, at the end, I ask students to make predictions, and I preview the next section of the novel.

After watching the video, students had a FlipGrid assignment to complete. This assignment served as a remote class discussion after each section of the novel.

Aside from academics, my co-teacher and I worked with our students on some projects intended to maintain and strengthen the bond and relationships that we all developed while school was in-person. Here's an example of a video that we made sharing good news during a difficult time. We then asked the wider school community to send us their good news videos on Flipgrid as well.

During the 2020-2021 school year, Wood Oaks Junior High adopted a hybrid learning model. With this in place, we held a virtual curriculum night. Here is the video that I provided for my sixth-grade reading and language arts families.