Biting Into Smore
Smore can enhance reading and writing in your classroom
Where are the Graham Crackers?
Smore.com is way to create beautiful pages instantly. This website allows users to create online flyers, newsletters, and other documents that are attractive, fun, and easy to use. I recommend the free account where you can store 6 flyers. You can always delete old flyers to create more space. Smore comes with ease for students and teachers alike.
Why Use Smore?
Reading
Through Smore, students can summarize what they have read in a variety of ways. Their Smore can be created in any type of genre.
Communication
42% of our students report that they do not receive feedback from their peers. Since Smores are shared through links, how powerful would it be for student links to be listed on a shared file (ex. google docs) for their friends and parents to see?
Writing
This is the biggie! According to our Bright Bytes data, 82% of our students say they aren't asked to share their work with someone online. Smore is web based so they will be writing and sharing online in a safe environment!
Creating a Smore
How Can You Use Smore?
Student Led
- Unit Summaries
- Book Reports/Reviews
- Point of View Writings
- Newsletters from a certain time period
- Biographies
Teacher Led
- Students can navigate through the Smore to gather information on a topic
- Flyer for an event in the classroom
- End of unit assessment where students have to create a Smore with specific guidelines
Your Task
Create a Smore on the topic of your choice. Share the link to your Smore on the Padlet link below so that others can see you're amazing ideas! All completed Smores (atleast 3 sections) on the Padlet will receive an hour credit for Widget Wednesday. If you would like me to come and work with you on your Smore, book me and we will work together.
Tasia Wilson, TLC
Email: twilson@richland2.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/richland2.org/bright-beacons/
Phone: 803-699-1724
Twitter: @Techy_Tasia