1. The interactive reading platform that enables teachers to leverage best practices to support, motivate, and engage students in deep learning. Actively Learn

2. Why I use Actively Learn I can promote active, thinking reading I can provide differentiated instruction and faster feedback For each student, I can see areas that need more work.

3. Actively Learn The interactive reading platform that enables teachers to leverage best practices to support, motivate, and engage students in deep learning.

4. Where Actively Learn stands apart There are many literacy practices that have shortcomings. On Actively Learn, their approach brings unique benefits to classrooms in the following ways.

5. Where Actively Learn stands apart Support Scaffolding Leveling X Shortcomings of Leveling: Leveling has a weak empirical basis, introduces reduced expectations, limits the types of texts teachers can assign, ignores what a student can accomplish with a teacher’s guidance, and loses sight of whether a text is worth reading in the first place. Benefits of Scaffolding: Students are supported through any text, regardless of text complexity, or content area. Teachers can directly support students individually, or as a group.

6. Motivation Social Interaction X Where Actively Learn stands apart Badges Shortcomings of Badges: Badges and other systems are often used to keep students motivated. These systems fall short if student’s don’t buy in. Benefits of Social Interaction: Meaningful conversations between students and the teacher help keep students motivated.

7. Shortcomings of Quizzing: Persistent diagnostic quizzes can leave students feeling frustrated. Engagement Active Reading Where Actively Learn stands apart Quizzing X Benefits of Active Reading: By annotating, discussing, viewing peers responses to questions, and leveraging reading aids help students become active thinkers when they read.

8. Teacher Involved Sideline X Where Actively Learn stands apart Shortcomings of sidelining teachers: On some reading programs there’s not much room for teacher involvement beyond looking at reports after students read. Benefits of involving teachers: Research shows that a great teacher is the single biggest factor that can improve student outcomes in a classroom. Teacher instruction and feedback is central in Actively Learn.

9. Where Actively Learn stands apart Literacy All Subjects Only English X Shortcomings of limiting literacy to ELA classes: Literacy is not only taught in English classes. A big part of becoming a better reader is reading diverse content, across all subject areas. Benefit of reading across all subjects: Actively Learn’s catalog & import tools make it quick and easy for teachers of any subject to teach literacy.

10. Teacher Involved Sideline X Literacy All Subjects Only English X Putting it all together Badges Motivation Social Interaction X Engagement Active Reading Quizzing X Support Scaffolding Leveling X

11. Instructional Models Supported Teacher Led Reading Student Led Reading Whole Class Small GroupIndependent Reading Research

12. Video https://youtu.be/p1Ft2Y0HKt0

13. Interactive Session - Agenda Sign up for Actively Learn Complete a group assignment Discussion Explore on your own

14. Now, let's sign up together! Go to activelylearn.com & pick “Teachers sign up, it’s free”activelylearn.com Create your account

15. Let’s read an assignment together Enter student mode -- > Join my class: [INSERT CLASSCODE]

16. Let’s read an assignment together Take 10 Minutes to be a student10 Minutes As you read, please: Double-click words you don’t understand (or those that your students won’t know) and look them up Please take a note and share it with the class I’ll have the grading screen visible on the project if you want to glance up and see what I’m doing at any point.

17. Who is feeling brave? Can three volunteers please share what they found unique and what they liked about Actively Learn?

18. Create your first assignment Exit student mode Find an assignment in the Catalog you want to use with your students Articles can be a great “do now” You can also import a Google Doc, Web Article, or PDF. Add it to your Workspace, add a question and a note to the text Assign it, and you’ll be prompted to create a class!

19. How will you introduce Actively Learn to your students? Student overview video (2:27) Tell them you want them to: Answer questions as they come to them Take 2 notes, sharing one of them with the class. Lookup any words they don’t know Select a portion of the text when they “Don’t understand” what’s going on.

20. Questions? I hope you LOVE Actively Learn as much as I do! I’m always here to help if you need anything, as well as the Actively Learn team who can be reached at help@activelylearn.com :)