Product Description:
This is an app from Curious Hat. The app is designed to visually and numerically teach students about fractions. This app allows students to compare, add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions. The app walks students through the process to allow them to learn each step as they go. While going through these steps students are encouraged to calculate the information on their own, but does offer help if students struggle with the calculations.
Glitchy Review:
I have used this app sporadically in my classroom mainly focusing on my RSP and low performing students when we learn about dividing fractions. This app allows these students to visually see this information when most of them have auditory processing issues or retention issues. The app has allowed me to access their strengths to really allow them to learn the information. I am able to go back to 4th and 5th-grade skills within the app. The students were able to become successful with this where if I did this a different way would have been longer and harder on me and the students. While this app is very basic in its set-up it works for these students. There are no crazy bells and whistles for the students to get distracted and keeps them focused enough with just the right amount of interaction. Hands down the best part of this app would have to be the visuals for the students. They are able to see the fraction in pieces and bars; which when you get to ratios REALLY helps to transfer the skill sets. I cannot express how happy my students were to be able to FINALLY understand fractions and how to use the steps correctly. They were able to master on the app and feel confident enough to do it on their own. This app is best for lower grades introducing fractions as well as low performing students in the upper grades, not so much for students outside of this group. (Trust me I have tried.) All of this is great for teachers; on top of that, it is FREE! Enjoy!
User Rating:
This app would be a level 1 since figuring out how to use this is basic and the set-up is the same no matter what you are doing in the app.
Glitchy Rating:
I give this app a 5 for the ease of use as well as the drastic amounts of help for the students.
Feel free to leave comments or suggestions below!
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Saturday, May 6, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
Read Thoery
Product Description:
This is a website where it will assess student reading levels, comprehension level, and standard achievement.
Glitchy Review:
I found this website via a colleague of mine. I was intrigued at first and decided to try it out with my students. Might I say I am HAPPY to have done it! This website allows teachers to assess student reading and comprehension level; along with standard achievement! Who could argue with that?
This website is super easy to use for both teacher and students to use. All you really need to do is set up your class and then have them go! I signed my class up last week and it began with an initial assessment and results begin. Now to really see information about your students you really want them to take about 2-3 quizzes. As the students take more quizzes the more information the teacher gets. I was able to see grade level performance, Lexile levels, and mastery of ELA standards. You are able to see this overall for your class as well as for individual students. (Hello RTI/SST data!)
The graphs the teacher is able to see are easy to see and read. In addition, should you wonder about something on the graph you can always hover over the information and it will tell you! The graphs are broken down into pre-test results with current quiz results incorporated. All these graphs are great, but when you get to the individual student information THEY GET BETTER! Didn’t think this could happen, but it did!
When you choose a student you are able to see the grade level, Lexile level progression, and the ELA standard performance. The best part is at the bottom of the page where you are able to see the results of each individual quiz the student takes. This is where the product gets better. The breakdown of the quizzes allows you to see the percent and if their reading level changed based on it. PLUS as the teacher you are able to click on the quiz to see the passage given, questions asked with the student’s answer and an explanation of the answers. This allows me so much insight into what my student’s know; don’t know, if they have a skill they are lacking, or if they are struggling with reading and comprehending questions in and of themselves.
Since using this program I have coupled this with Newsela and Front Row to really allow me to alter reading, reading comprehension and lessons to each individual student. I am able to make my small groups and individual work even more effective to aid my students. Needless to say, I am a happy teacher! By the way, did I happen to mention this website is FREE?! Excited yet?
User Rating:
I give this website a level 1 since it is so easy to use. Should you get confused there are multiple help sections and pop-ups. There is no need to watch any videos to use this; which is great for teachers!
Glitchy Rating:
I give this website 4 out of 5. I only give this because I believe there is so much more this website could do.
Go check out Read Theory here.
This is a website where it will assess student reading levels, comprehension level, and standard achievement.
Glitchy Review:
I found this website via a colleague of mine. I was intrigued at first and decided to try it out with my students. Might I say I am HAPPY to have done it! This website allows teachers to assess student reading and comprehension level; along with standard achievement! Who could argue with that?
This website is super easy to use for both teacher and students to use. All you really need to do is set up your class and then have them go! I signed my class up last week and it began with an initial assessment and results begin. Now to really see information about your students you really want them to take about 2-3 quizzes. As the students take more quizzes the more information the teacher gets. I was able to see grade level performance, Lexile levels, and mastery of ELA standards. You are able to see this overall for your class as well as for individual students. (Hello RTI/SST data!)
The graphs the teacher is able to see are easy to see and read. In addition, should you wonder about something on the graph you can always hover over the information and it will tell you! The graphs are broken down into pre-test results with current quiz results incorporated. All these graphs are great, but when you get to the individual student information THEY GET BETTER! Didn’t think this could happen, but it did!
When you choose a student you are able to see the grade level, Lexile level progression, and the ELA standard performance. The best part is at the bottom of the page where you are able to see the results of each individual quiz the student takes. This is where the product gets better. The breakdown of the quizzes allows you to see the percent and if their reading level changed based on it. PLUS as the teacher you are able to click on the quiz to see the passage given, questions asked with the student’s answer and an explanation of the answers. This allows me so much insight into what my student’s know; don’t know, if they have a skill they are lacking, or if they are struggling with reading and comprehending questions in and of themselves.
Since using this program I have coupled this with Newsela and Front Row to really allow me to alter reading, reading comprehension and lessons to each individual student. I am able to make my small groups and individual work even more effective to aid my students. Needless to say, I am a happy teacher! By the way, did I happen to mention this website is FREE?! Excited yet?
User Rating:
I give this website a level 1 since it is so easy to use. Should you get confused there are multiple help sections and pop-ups. There is no need to watch any videos to use this; which is great for teachers!
Glitchy Rating:
I give this website 4 out of 5. I only give this because I believe there is so much more this website could do.
Go check out Read Theory here.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Frontrow
Product Review:
Frontrow is an online product to review/teach students skills in both Math and Language Arts. The program is accessible from both computers, tablets, and SMART phones. There is a free version as well as a paid version; however, the paid version is only for schools/districts.
Glitchy Review:
This product is amazing. If you haven't started using this, you need to! I use the free version for my classroom and I am still able to do multiple different things for my students. Let's begin with the teacher dashboard. This is very user friendly. It is simple for teachers to find the information they are looking for. There are videos available to you to help you learn what each part does. The teacher has access to any things about each student. I could list them all but that would take a long time; here are a few highlights I find the most beneficial.
User Rating: This website is a definite level 2. You will need to watch the videos or hit the Need Help button to really be able to understand all the things you can do.
I hope this post aids you in discovering FrontRow. Below is the website for you to go and get started. Enjoy!
www.frontrowed.com
Frontrow is an online product to review/teach students skills in both Math and Language Arts. The program is accessible from both computers, tablets, and SMART phones. There is a free version as well as a paid version; however, the paid version is only for schools/districts.
Glitchy Review:
This product is amazing. If you haven't started using this, you need to! I use the free version for my classroom and I am still able to do multiple different things for my students. Let's begin with the teacher dashboard. This is very user friendly. It is simple for teachers to find the information they are looking for. There are videos available to you to help you learn what each part does. The teacher has access to any things about each student. I could list them all but that would take a long time; here are a few highlights I find the most beneficial.
- a time stamp on when a student logs in
- an average grade level for Math and Language Arts based on use and answer of the student
- breakdown of grade for each domain
- current standard of each domain the student is working on
- suggested domain to have the student work on
As you can see multiple benefits to the teacher. If you are conducting the SST or RTI process on a student you can use the program's Report Card as data as well as a place to have the student work to review topics of other grade levels. This program also allows the students to go home and work on this at home because all they need to log in is their first and last name with the classroom code. Teacher benefits include creating targeted assignments in both subject areas. Please understand most of the good things you can do in math are not accessible in Language Arts. You can assign students activities within Language Arts but will not be able to see the results except for a couple of students.
I have been working with this program for 3 years now and seen benefits of it with multiple students. I had a student failing math in the fall and she committed (to herself, I did not know) to going on FrontRow every day for 20 minutes. By the end of the year, she had an A in math; she started at a 2nd-grade level. I have my RTI students use the program and they refer to videos already linked into the program and I use the suggested lessons when I pull them into small groups. There are so many benefits to the program on the free level I can only imagine what I could do if I had the paid version.
For the paid version I do know you have access to all assessment results, can share and access results from all grade level teachers, use these results to create RTI groups, and grade level teachers will be able to see the results to aid with RTI/SST interventions. You are also able to create assessments online for the whole grade level for your CFAs and the program will automatically grade and group the students for you. Hello to extra time during PLCs!T
Did I mention the layout of the screen and way to answer questions is IDENTICAL to the Smart Assessments we give our students for CCSS? It does and helps ease stress related to that because the student has already been working with this layout and don't have to worry about what to do to answer the question!
Glitchy Rating: Overall, I give this program 2 ratings. For the free version, I give it a 4 because you do not have access to everything. For the paid version, I give it a 5 because of the numerous benefits to both teacher and students.I have been working with this program for 3 years now and seen benefits of it with multiple students. I had a student failing math in the fall and she committed (to herself, I did not know) to going on FrontRow every day for 20 minutes. By the end of the year, she had an A in math; she started at a 2nd-grade level. I have my RTI students use the program and they refer to videos already linked into the program and I use the suggested lessons when I pull them into small groups. There are so many benefits to the program on the free level I can only imagine what I could do if I had the paid version.
For the paid version I do know you have access to all assessment results, can share and access results from all grade level teachers, use these results to create RTI groups, and grade level teachers will be able to see the results to aid with RTI/SST interventions. You are also able to create assessments online for the whole grade level for your CFAs and the program will automatically grade and group the students for you. Hello to extra time during PLCs!T
Did I mention the layout of the screen and way to answer questions is IDENTICAL to the Smart Assessments we give our students for CCSS? It does and helps ease stress related to that because the student has already been working with this layout and don't have to worry about what to do to answer the question!
User Rating: This website is a definite level 2. You will need to watch the videos or hit the Need Help button to really be able to understand all the things you can do.
I hope this post aids you in discovering FrontRow. Below is the website for you to go and get started. Enjoy!
www.frontrowed.com
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