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Templates for Vocabulary and Technology

Here are some apps and websites to help you when using technology to teach vocabulary in the classroom.

StoryLines for Schools

StoryLines for Schools is an award-winning game of 'telephone' with pictures. Featured by KQED's MindShift in their "10 Awesome Apps for Learning", and by Apple as a "New & Noteworthy" education App.

Learn new vocabulary and language concepts that are grade-appropriate, and spark your creativity in a safe, enjoyable manner.

Trading Cards

ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters.

Create trading cards for any number of categories, including:
• Fictional person
• Real person
• Fictional place
• Real place
• Object
• Event
• Vocabulary word

Each category has specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card. Summarizing skills are critical as they drill down to the most important information to fit on the card. In addition, they become aware of writing for an audience because they can share their cards with others.

Part of the appeal of trading cards is being able to sort them into collections. Have kids and teens build a collection of cards for characters from their favorite book, landmarks in their favorite city, events from a period in history they find interesting, or vocabulary words by school subject.

FEATURES:

• Multi-user card storage
• Management of users by deleting and restoring within 2 weeks
• 7 card categories, each with a targeted set of guiding questions that cover key information
• Ability to add and edit an image from your device’s camera or photo library
• 12 card designs for styling cards
• Helpful how-to information on each screen
• Ability to create collections of completed cards
• Auto-saving of cards as they are created
• Viewing of finished card for proofreading
• Ability to save card to photos
• Ability to print card on a wireless printer
• Ability to send card by e-mail

Trading Cards is an educational app for all ages that adds creativity and fun to the learning process. If you have ideas for educational uses for this app in school or at home, please Contact Us.

Privacy: Your trading cards are private unless you decide to share them by e-mail. ReadWriteThink.org does not store any personal information from this app.

Tools 4 Students

Tools 4 Students offers 25 graphic organizers supporting common comprehension skills like main idea and detail, sequencing, compare and contrast etc. Each organizer can be used again and again and be emailed, drop boxed, or saved as a PDF.

Fantastic news! Mobile Learning Services just added 25 new Graphic Organizers in another app called Tools4Students 2. These are just some of the exciting new organizers that will help students with their thinking: Chapter Notes, Document Analysis, Writing Organizers, Drawing Conclusions along with 7 different blank organizers that students and teachers can customize. Available now as separate app purchase.

If you LOVE Tools4Students check out our app, ReadNRespond. Forms for response to literature following Blooms Taxonomy.

See how Lisa Carnazzo's Second Grade class used Tools 4 Students. http://carnazzosclass.wikispaces.com/The+Lorax

Our app features 25 graphic organizers for students to use to organize their thinking while reading or preparing to write. Covers all common comprehension skills: cause /effect, main idea/detail, sequence events, pro/con, story elements, characterization, word meaning, plot, KWL and much more. Save to your device and/or email. Use again and again. Project on board and collaborate with team members. Use to organize notes while reading or use them as a pre-write to school papers. Great tool for instructors as well.

Features
◦ 25 different organizers
◦ Type in your response, note the book and page numbers when appropriate
◦ Email finished organizer to teachers or friends
◦ Reuse the same organizer again and again
◦ Save the ones you wish to keep to refer back to later
◦ Project on whiteboard and use as group tool

Tools 4 Students 2

Mobile Learning Services introduces Tools4Students 2 featuring 25 NEW Graphic Organizers suitable for grade 4 -12 students. Available for purchase through the educator volume purchasing program. Some of the new organizers include: Chapter Notes, Document Analysis, Writing Organizers, Drawing Conclusions and 7 different blank templates where students and teachers can create their own labels, titles and headings.

If you like Tools4Students check out CompareNContrast. New to this app, users can create their own text or photos to compare and contrast.

Our app features 25 graphic organizers for students to use to organize their thinking while reading or preparing to write. Save organizers to the device, google doc, dropbox, as a PDF and/or email. All organizers can be used again and again. Project onto a whiteboard and collaborate with team members. Use to organize notes while reading or watching a movie or presentation. Many make excellent pre-writes for school papers. Supports CCSS.

Features
◦ 25 different organizers
◦ Type in your response, note the book and page numbers when appropriate
◦ Save completed organizers as a PDF making it easier to grade
◦ Reuse the same organizer again and again
◦ Save and refer back to later
◦ Project on whiteboard and use as group or evaluation tool