Race2Read Materials for Beanstack App
Here are the resources to for Beanstack-Race2Read:
- Beanstack101 Student Guide -- This 2-pager will help your students sign-in and complete the 3 main actions in Beanstack on both the web and mobile apps.
- School flyer -- This will help your students and community members sign-in and complete logging in the Beanstack app on both the web and mobile apps.
- Quickstart Guides -- Teachers, these guides will give you at-a-glance information about how you and your students sign-in, and the actions you can take in Beanstack.
- Quick Experience Videos: The video links below will help you introduce Beanstack to your students, and are a good resource!
Video Links:
Where are You From? By Yamile Saied Mendez and Jaime Kim
When a girl is asked where she’s from—where she’s really from—none of her answers seems to be the right one. Unsure about how to reply, she turns to her loving abuelo for help. He doesn’t give her the response she expects. She gets an even better one. With themes of self-acceptance, identity, and home, this powerful, lyrical picture book will resonate with readers young and old, from all backgrounds and of all colors—especially anyone who ever felt that they don’t belong.
SEL COMPETENCY:
Social awareness allows individuals to take others’ perspectives into account and to empathize with others. Socially aware students are more likely to recognize and appreciate the similarities and differences of others. Social awareness is particularly important for students as they participate in
new instructional shifts. Students need to take the perspectives of their classmates during classroom discussions and attempt to empathize and relate with characters during analysis of texts.
Theme:
Diversity and Acceptance: We show appreciation for diverse perspectives and experiences.
IB Learner Profile Attribute: Open-minded
Reading Progress
Access through MyBacpack, search Microsoft Education and sign in.
SORA! - NEW
Sora, the student reading app, is the quickest and easiest way for students to read e-books and audiobooks that can be accessed through myBackpack! Start reading today!
NOVEL EFFECT
Watching the faces of students as they read and realize there is a soundtrack accompanying their reading is so very heartwarming! If you have not tried Novel Effect for yourself or demonstrated it for your students, please do! It brings so much joy and pleasure to any story time.
Username: email@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Password: apsreads
You can create a class for homeroom teachers and provide them with your class code. Teachers may gain access to Novel Effect with your class code. Click here to the download the August calendar.
* Novel Effect may be asking you to purchase a premium account. We are working on getting this fixed. We will send out an email once this has been taken care of.
SEE CALENDAR BELOW
Kid's GALILEO
Kid’s GALILEO is an excellent resource for students to do research. GALILEO is a gateway to credible and authoritative resources -- a universe of full‑text articles, ebooks, journals, educational videos and more.
You can access GALILEO through my Backpack or https://www.galileo.usg.edu/satl/elementary
The GALILEO password for Atlanta Public Schools is: except (valid August 8, 2023 - January 9, 2024.)
eRead Kids
Staff members and students have access to read books online. The eRead Kids differs from Hoopla in there are limited copies of a particular book. Users may not be able to read the same book simultaneously.
Staff Library Card:
Lawson Number
Password: changeme
Students Library Card:
Network ID (jdoe1111)
Password: lunch number (11111)
Hoopla
Staff members and students have access to a plethora of digital resources. Users have the option to read or listen to materials simultaneously in Hoopla. All you have to do is sign up for a free account using your personal email address. When you are prompted to select your participating library, select the Fulton Public Library. Staff, your library card is your Lawson number. The student's library card is their Network ID (jdoe1111).
Overdrive
Staff members and students have access to read books online. The Overdrive database differs from Hoopla in that there are limited copies of a particular book. Users cannot read the same book simultaneously.
Staff Library Card:
Lawson Number
Password: changeme
Students Library Card:
Network ID (jdoe1111)
Password: lunch number (11111)
MyBackpack eBook Shelf
APS District eBook Shelf
To access the APS eBook shelf, students should log into MyBackpack. Select the eBooks tile. From here, all apps are accessible for student use.
To access apps requiring username/password, use the following credentials:
TumbleBook Library/Cloud
Username: atlantaps
Password: books
Big Timber Books
Username: atlantaps
Password: readmore
MyBackpack eResources
APS eResources
To access APS eResources, students should log into MyBackpack. Select eResources.
World Almanac (Elem, Middle & HS) - no additional log in required
National Geographic Kids: Password: readmore
Infobits - Password: readmore
Learn360: no additional log in required
Britannica Image Quest - no additional log in required
Blooms Literature - no additional log in required
Need to find out if a book is an AR book?
2. Once there, click on student, or parent
3. In "Quick Search," type the title of the book
4. If the book is indeed an AR title, information about the book will appear, if it is not an AR title, it will say, "No AR Quiz"
Loraine Foushee
Loraine transitioned to a career in education, she shared her love of media production with high school students for 7 years. Her career has spanned Clayton County, Gwinnett County and Cobb County. Loraine completed her Specialist degree in Education with Certification in Library Media Science in 2013. She accepted her current position as the proud Media Specialist of Barack and Michelle Obama Academy in 2014.
Loraine Foushee is also an award winning film producer with more than 20 years of industry experience.
Email: lfoushee@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Phone: (404)802-4200
Twitter: @apsBAMOAcademy