Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

No matter what subject you teach, spend time showing students how to take notes, how to study for tests and quizzes, and how to balance their time between homework and other after-school activities. Choose high-interest books and materials for reading activities, and encourage students to choose how they’d like to finish final projects.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Polls and Quizzes: Encourage your child to participate in polls or mini quizzes if their online platform offers them. Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. Some programs also include regular quizzes or assessments, which can help demonstrate how well they absorb the material.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

It could be books read, quizzes finished, activities completed.) Dubbed “Clever Goals,” the tool lets educators, students and parents see how long a pupil spent on different digital learning programs, along with their “progress,” which is defined differently depending on the kind of edtech software. (It

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading. Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading. Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 18, 2015

Unfortunately, many teachers spend the first day of school reading their syllabus to their students and explaining all of the classroom norms and rules. Students love taking online quizzes, so they enjoy the experience and I get to know their learning styles! I explain that little kids love, love, love to read. 10 Questions .

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Today, Beanstack announces the addition of Book Talks with Benny, an AI-powered teachers assistant that promotes reading integrity without the need for quizzes or grading. This information allows educators to evaluate the conversation and make the final decision about how best to ensure reading accountability.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

the company offers an app that lets kids access unlimited books, educational videos, quizzes and audiobooks — and it’s free for educators. Offers additional features, including a read-to-me for younger readers, offline reading and reading badges for reaching certain levels and tasks. and reading in school and beyond.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Some specific ways TAs can utilize AI to support their students would include: Paraphrasing: Rephrasing materials for lower reading levels. Summaries : For students with significant issues with reading or attention issues, TAs can use AI tools to summarize long passages of text. Diffit provides leveled resources as well. Documentor.cc

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

Over the past few years, more literacy tools have been using generative AI, either to accelerate children’s reading proficiency or to stimulate more reading interest. Using speech recognition technology to listen to a child read and using AI to offer feedback can be helpful as long as the technology is based on science-backed design.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

The most common homework given to students in most classes is reading. To incentivize that, I typically assign reading exercises and quizzes. First, I ask students to submit analog or digital notes related to what they read. Finally, I have around five reflection and application questions as part of the reading quiz.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Students who take quizzes shortly after they study show better performance on a final test relative to students who only study without taking a practice quiz, even when no feedback is given on the quiz ( Roediger III, McDaniel, & McDermott, 2006 ). As this study shows, LMS platforms, combined with quizzes, can help students achieve.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Most people assume the move to online courses means students are logging on to the learning management system to take reading quizzes tied to their assigned textbook chapters and posting in the discussion board in line with weekly modules as their schedules allow. Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to Karen Schrier, associate professor and director of games and emerging media at New York’s Marist College, “Games support literacy skills in part because they enable students to play and learn in authentic worlds they care about, where they need to read to be able to solve missions or interpret clues.” and “Look who joined us!”

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Read below. Quizzes in Google Forms. Last but not least, Google Education has announced a quiz feature in Google Forms, where educators can generate quizzes that Forms will auto-grade. Curious about virtual reality? Frustrated with how limiting your classroom projector is? Ben Schrom, Google Expeditions Product Manager.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Observational Assessments The teacher’s observations of student behaviors, interactions, and work provide valuable qualitative data (or information that is descriptive and non-numeric) that complements quantitative assessments, like quizzes that produce numerical data.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. It provides animated stories that are read aloud to students. For the primary grades it has read aloud stories with lessons provided to go with the story. It began as a site where actors read famous children’s books.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Online courses can offer content in audio, text, and video formats, each with interactive elements like quizzes, virtual labs, and social annotation to enhance engagement and provide multiple ways for students to absorb the material. It is super important to incorporate the three pillars of UDL into e-learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Click here to read the full app review. ExitTicket is a rapid-response tool that lets teachers instantly poll, survey, or test student knowledge via custom quizzes called tickets. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from Graphite by Common Sense Media. ExitTicket. What’s It Like?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So, my students are always kept on their toes because we might start out with a quick review of the last session, which will take about three minutes, then we’ll jump into a discussion of the reading, and then we’ll go to a mini case, then we’ll switch over to a mini lecture, then we’ll do another exercise.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

All it asks for is the topic, reading level, and any additional criteria teachers might have for their class, like an enhanced focus on accessibility or detailed deep dives into ethical implications. MagicSchool.ai, on the other hand, is a more expansive tool, and lesson planning is just one of the features it offers teachers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

One of the best examples is the Reading Counts system. Students read books, pass quizzes, and get a certain number of points attributed to their profile. The number of reading counts points serves as bragging rights among students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Reading levels: Tailor courses to accommodate varying reading levels to ensure all students can understand and benefit from the content. Other items to consider include your instructional model, quizzes and tests, and supplemental materials for teachers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Oftentimes the learners fail to understand the vocabulary of the book that sets the obstacles for the reading comprehension, or fail to discuss the topic because they lack active vocabulary. Actively Learn is an online interactive platform where students learn through “layers”–the discussion questions that structure readings.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The result of our Library Learning Commons initiative will include a seamless integration of shared digital resources that are pre-approved and pushed out every iPad, making it easy for students to read, research, collaborate, and own their learning experience.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Click here to read the full app review. Once the toolbar pops up, teachers and students can add annotations, embed videos into websites, add maps, quizzes, discussions, and do much more. Pros : Useful for any classroom where critical reading is key; lets teachers break website reading into manageable sizes.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

What leads to reading success? In my view, success with reading doesn’t follow from drill and kill practices that stifle interest and motivation. Additionally, nonfiction content that showcases stories of success and hope for people of color drives reading motivation for racially diverse students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Step 2: Collect the feedback in an easy-to-read format. Here are some examples of how you might want to collect information, or give feedback: Online assessments (Google Forms now allows teachers to create and grade quizzes ). Completing a reading journal or log. Collecting data for science experiments. Peer feedback.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2015

Reading is defined as “ the action or skill of absorbing written or printed matter silently or aloud.” ” Sounds dry, maybe even boring, but once a child learns to read, they get much more than an understanding of words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. how to read a book. language skills.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2020

A library for centralizing useful content, ranging from reading materials to exam papers. Polls and quizzes to test knowledge and enable peer-to-peer learning. The platform includes the following features: Dynamic communication channels to stay connected as a class.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2016

Reading is defined as “ the action or skill of absorbing written or printed matter silently or aloud.” Sounds dry, maybe even boring, but once a child learns to read, they get much more than an understanding of words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. I am constantly on the hunt for good tech reading tools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Cengage Learning’s MindTap is a fully built course experience that integrates reading, homework, quizzing, multi-media assets and more. We also developed all new features, such as the flashcard-based Practice Quizzes for the app as a result of our research.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Being new to teaching, I spent time reading up on pedagogical best practices and how methods like mastery learning and one-on-one personalized guidance could drastically improve student outcomes. The most common method is through assessment—either via homework or quizzes and tests. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Both Streaming and Science Techbook help me better engage my students with interactives, reading passages, exciting lessons and more. As the facilitator of the Nearpod you can engage students with a variety of ways including drawings, quizzes, polls, matching, and much more.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Dover, DE Quizard is an academic app designed to help students study for tests and quizzes. The Juice , Miami, FL The Juice is an interactive learning platform designed to develop students’ reading comprehension, critical thinking, information and media literacy skills, and civics knowledge using fun and engaging original content.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2015

Click here to read the full app review. Cons : Quizzes at the end of the lessons are short, and there are only three mini-games to choose from. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from Graphite by Common Sense Media. Meet Science: Light and Sound. What’s It Like? Price : $4.99. Grades : 3-5.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. I administer two daily quizzes in that course.

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