Thursday, May 29, 2014

informed citizens... learning about our world with the News-O-Matic iPad app

The First Grade Butterflies LOVE the News-O-Matic iPad app!

Five new articles are posted each day with kid-friendly language and supportive features (for example- capability to have text read aloud, access to a map indicating the location of the "news", ideas to "act" and become involved, additional "facts", and...)!

News-O-Matic 

  • provides readers access to informational text that is meaningful, authentic, and relevant to their lives-world
  • facilitates readers' application of reading skills, strategies, and behaviors to construct meaning in a variety of "text" types
  • promotes development of knowledgeable, global, and informed citizens 
  • incites critical literacy skills
  • inspires intentional discourse and problem-solving
  • and... 
News-O-Matic is a Butterfly "BEST" iPad app (a "definite-must have" app) for iPads in the classroom and for iPads at home!

a first grader learns about current events
with the News-O-Matic iPad app
first graders become informed citizens
...learning about our world through the News-O-Matic iPad app

first graders record reactions to current events
...learning about our world through the News-O-Matic iPad app

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