Distance Learning

On this page, you’ll find links related to moving our clinical experience courses (LED 755, 756, 757, and 758) online. If you have any additional suggestions, please email Dr. G (greenek@newpaltz.edu). We will continue to add links to this page.

ACCESSIBILITY

Bookshare: Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

Google Meet: Videoconferencing tool that creates live closed captions. Learn more about how to use GM here.

Immersive Reader:A Google Chrome extension that will read websites/passages to students online. You can increase or decrease the spacing and word size, change the font depending on what your students need to read, highlight the different parts of speech in the grammar option, picture dictionary (for highlighted words of your choice),  translate to 60 different languages, and also zoom in on specific lines to focus on when reading.

Listenwise: Currently free! Contains list of ELA, social studies, science, and current events reading passages for emerging readers in grades 5 – 12. This reads passages to students, includes questions, and organizers.

GOOGLE TOOLS

Getting Started with G Suite for Education: Resources in the form of links, videos, and slides separating beginner, intermediate, advanced features of GSuite for Education

Google Distance Learning Resources for Schools Affected by COVID-19: For educators and IT administrators preparing for potential school closures — or currently facing them — here are a few ways to engage students through distance learning.

Google Suite for Education: Tons of how-to resources and teaching materials for G Suite for Education.

LITERACY INSTRUCTION & ASSESSMENT

All About Adolescent Literacy: Resources for parents and educators of kids in grades 4-12.

Author/Celebs Offering Read Alouds:

Audible: Free yearlong subscription to books – they are read alouds with activities.  All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

English as a Second Language (ESL): SUNY New Paltz Sojourner Truth Library guide to resources for ESL students.

Epic: Instantly access 40,000 of the best books, learning videos, quizzes & more. View this slide deck to learn more!

E Resources for Online Learning: Collection of resources for finding electronic resources for online learning at SUNY New Paltz.

FreeChildrenStories: Thousands of children books from ages 3 – 14.

Fountas & Pinnell: Fountas and Pinnell provide guidance and a list of suggestions for engaging students, in particular readers who receive intervention services, in literacy opportunities at home.

Guggenhiem Books: Download over 200 art books from the Guggenheim for free!

IES Regional Ed Laboratory Program: Series of instructional videos modeling instruction for English Learners in elementary and middle school.

Lakeshore Learning: free instructional resources including lesson plans, videos, activities, and more across the contents.

Literacy Essentials: Collection of model teaching videos, modules, and resources designed to improve childhood literacy development.

LivBits: A list of weekly, interactive read alouds.

LoyalBooks: Free public domain audiobooks and eBook downloads separated by genre! Also available in many different languages.

Loving2Read: Library of books from preschool and up!

National Emergency Library: A collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.

Newsela: FREE until the end of the 2019/2020 school year. It is a data base of high-interest current events articles tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Has built in quiz questions and also works with Immersive Reader Chrome Extension.

Oxford Owl Books: eBooks collection, developed for children aged 3 – 11 years old.

PBS Learning Media: Teaching and learning resources across the contents.

Purdue English Language Learner Language Portraits: A collection of formative assessment tools to use with all students, and especially ELLs.

Reading A to Z: Thousands of downloadable, projectable, printable teacher materials, covering all the skills necessary for effective reading instruction.

Reading Rockets: A literacy education website with tons of informative blog posts, videos, and other resources to support instruction.

ShareMyLesson: Includes a range of effective early education resources to help set a strong foundation for young students.

Scholastic: Scholastic has provided resources for educators to use when teaching at home, divided by grade level bands.

Storyline: Videos featuring actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Click here to access their website!

Story Time From Space: While in space, astronauts are videotaping themselves reading these books to the children of Earth. These videos are being edited and placed on this Story Time From Space website- look under the heading ” Story Time Videos”.

World Book Day: Range of famous authors and starts reading children’s books and short stories for kids of all ages.

Time for Kids:The Time for Kids digital library is free for the rest of the school year.

Unite for Literacy: Free digital library for preschool and primary learners.

Virtual Professional Learning Library: Annotated video clips of outstanding classroom instruction in the State of South Carolina.

Wonderopolis: Engaging articles based on wonders, works with immersive reader, includes fun vocabulary activities and also has build in quizzes.

TOOLS

Amazing Educational Resources: Collection of links and info for ed companies offering free subs during COVID-19. 

Technology Resources: A comprehensive list of virtual resources for instruction and assessment in an online environment.

VIDEOCONFERENCING (HOW TO)

VC Tools: this resource provides information on what different VC tools can do, and has tutorials linked (for both candidates and K-12 students in tutoring sessions) in the first column (Bb Collaborate, FaceTime, Google Meet, WebEx, and Zoom.

TITAC: a videoconferencing method for teaching and learning instruction. Scroll down to the numbered list of suggestions for some helpful VC tips.

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