Hello all! I hope the holiday season is finding you all festive and well! Things are going fabulously over here in EngagingLand and we are counting down the day till break!!!
So, do you want some tech you can use in your class and implement tomorrow? If you haven't yet, you MUST use Epic! Books!!!! Epic! is an online library that is totally free for teachers. Teachers can have students read casually off of a guest account or can quickly and easily create an account for each student.
So .... why is it amazing?
The teachers in my district love Epic! and are using it with students who are K - 8. My favorite thing is the amazing and quality informational text. Their nonfiction books are amazing (I can't get enough of their National Geographic titles!) and teachers are using these to introduce kids as young as second grade to the concept of research.
A couple of weeks ago, like many urban districts, we started to enroll students from Puerto Rico. These students all came with different backgrounds and access to education. I was personally working with a couple of students who spoke no English at all. The principal and I set these students up on Epic! and selected "Spanish Books" as their preference and voila!!! We had an instant Spanish language library and these students got to spend at least a part of their day exploring and in their home language!!!
If you are already using Epic! in your classroom, I would love to hear the ways you have implemented it!!! Feel free to comment below, head on over to my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ToEngageThemAll/ ) or email me at engaginthemall@gmail.com.