1. Digital Delights Presents Digital Delights Presents Apps and More That are Good for the CORE! Melissa Webb, Ed.S. & Tomeka Barron, Ed.S. Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools

4. The CORE Shifts

5. Shift 1: Balancing Informational and Literary Text Shift 2: Building Knowledge in the Disciplines Shift 3: Staircase of Complexity Shift 4: Text-based Answers Shift 5: Writing from Sources Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary The CORE Shifts

6. Shift 1: Balancing Informational and Literary Text - Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction Shift 4: Text-based Answers - Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary - Regular practice with complex text and its academic language The CORE Shifts

7. The Apps

8. #5: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text relate to each other and the whole. #6: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Strip Designer $2.99

9. #4: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. #7: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. Pic Collage FREE

10. Puppet Pals HD and Puppet Pals 2 FREE or $4.99 FREE or $2.99 #2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. #3: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

11. Web-Based Resources

12. www.makebeliefscomix.com Demonstrate text development, point of view, and central ideas through the use of comic strip storytelling.

15. www.edu.glogster.com Analyze figurative meaning by compiling visual images to demonstrate conceptual understanding. Import videos and pictures to create posters, diagrams, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and much more.

18. www.kerpoof.com Create educational and entertaining animated videos that analyze how characters, events, and ideas develop throughout a text.

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23. Digital Delights Presents Digital Delights Presents Apps and More That are Good for the CORE! Feel Free to email us! melissa.webb@sccpss.com tomeka.barron@sccpss.com tomeka.barron@sccpss.com