Creating #BookSnaps With Markup On The iPad

Recently I had the opportunity to share the idea of using BookSnaps as an alternative to traditional reading logs for independent reading books.

*Image from Mosquitoland

BookSnaps allow students to quickly create shareable visual artifacts of applying close reading strategies while reading their independent reading books, make connections to the text, and share text snippets with classmates like a mini book talk by digitally annotating the text and saving the result as an image.

Resources:

The steps for creating BookSnaps with the Markup extension in the Photos app on the iPad are listed below. You can also grab a PDF of these steps here.

I'm always looking for more great examples of student-created BookSnaps. If you would like to share some great examples of your students' work, please send them my way.

*Mosquitoland by David Arnold

EdCampMN Reflections

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Today was a great day of informal sharing at EdCampMN at the Anderson Student Center on the Hamline University campus.

I participated in sessions on Voxer, edtech coaching, 1:1 Chromebooks, iPads in the classroom, standards-based grading, literacy resources, Twitter, and flexible learning spaces. The EdCamp model of informal group discussion and resource sharing instead of formal presentations offered plenty of opportunities to share work going on in my district and professional interests of my own.

I also had a chance to practice a little sketchnoting and uploaded my sketch here to share. I definitely see the value in visual note-taking and the connections between doodling and summarizing and how it can help students remember content better in the classroom. Sketchnoting also helps teachers document major takeaways from professional development conferences.

Reader's Workshop Technology Resources

Do you have one or two computers in your elementary classroom that you would like to turn into a literacy skills learning station for students to use during your reader's workshop independent work/skills block time?

These links can be used to support reading instruction by the teacher with the class during skills block instruction or by students working independently during literacy work time.


Reader's Theater Scripts on the Internet

Myths and Folklore

Classics

Word Build & Bank

Acrostic Poems

Hints About Print

Flip Book

Flip-A-Chip

Picture Match

Venn Diagram

What's in the Bag?

Word Wizard

Word Family Sort

Alphabet Organizer

Diamante Poems

Fact Fragment Frenzy

Eye On Idioms

Sight Words

Vocabulary Booklets

Flash Cards With Printable Results

Word Searches

Sight Word Spelling Checker

Challenging Spelling List

Homonyms

Keynote and PowerPoint Slideshows

RealeWriter

If you use other resources, please add a comment to share them.