Why? If you are not housing texts in a google shared folder, accessible to your students, now is the time to do so. In doing so, students have access to comprehensible texts at the touch of a button. By housing all class created texts in one common place, students are able to do any number of things with them. They can easily open a previous text and translate or illustrate it. Or read a text from a different class (I teach 3 sections of Spanish I) and find similarities and differences between students in that class and their class. Or they can highlight specific target structures or vocabulary structures. Or add X number of details to the text (if they use conjunctions and connecting words this helps students level up on proficiency levels as well!). Or any number of other post-reading activities. Or build your FVR library with these texts. A shared folder full of comprehensible texts is also great for emergency (or non-emergency) sub plans. What? At the end of each class period, I do a Write & Discuss with my students. Basically, the students and I co-create a text about what we discussed in class that day. In my situation, I use a doc cam, so I have a physical copy of the text on paper. You can also write the text directly on an interactive whiteboard and save it, or on a traditional whiteboard and take a picture of it. Whatever your situation is, just make sure you have a record of what you created during Write & Discuss. During my prep period, or at the end of the day, I spend about 10 minutes typing each class’s Write & Discuss in a new google doc in the appropriate shared google folder. The majority of texts in the shared folder are these - comprehensible texts that the students and I have created. However, the shared folder doesn’t need to be limited to Write & Discuss texts. Any text you create with your students can be placed in the shared folder. Mine houses our Persona Especial facts (Persona Especial is from Bryce Hedstrom), slideshows from songs we listen to and artists we learn about (Kara Jacobs is the inspiration for this. Check out her examples here and here), and stories about our Invisible characters (Tina Hargaden & Ben Slavic are the creators of this great idea). How? File and document organization is key! First, create a new folder in your google drive. Mine is labeled as Student Shared Folders. Within this folder, create a separate folder for each level you teach. Name each folder with the school year and level. As students move from level I-II, the folder stays with them; simply rename the folder to include the current school year and the new level. Change the color of the folder to green. When a level “graduates,” change the color of the folder to gray. This allows a quick visual reference as to which folders are active. When you are ready to create a new text, open the folder where you would like to house the text FIRST. Doing so avoids moving it later. Open a new google doc (or slide presentation, etc) and type your text. Here is where file organization is a must!! The way in which I name each of my texts corresponds with class period and date of creation (year, month, day). For example doc 3-180906 was created by 3rd period on September 9, 2018. However you decide to name your texts, be sure to share the way in which you do so with your students so they know how to access texts when needed. Once a class folder has been created, with a couple of texts housed inside, share the folder with your students so they have access. From the drop down menu on the name of the folder, select “Share…” Choose who has access and make sure they can VIEW ONLY. Use the “Copy Link” button to copy the link of the shared folder. You can post/e-mail this link to your students so they can access the folder. I post the link to Google Classroom as that is the most efficient in my situation. Additionally, I ask that students add the shared folder to their Google Drive so it is even more accessible. (No scrolling through Classroom to find a random post.) To have students add the folder to their drive, they select “Add to My Drive” from the drop down menu on the folder’s name. Students now have access to all the texts we create and use in class.
Happy comprehensible reading!
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