How Flocabulary’s Week in Rap is created for teaching current events
Over the past two years, the role of video instruction has steadily expanded in the classroom, especially when teaching current events. Facing school closures and remote learning, many teachers turned to video as a way to keep students engaged. Video is a familiar format for a generation of digital-native students and can serve as a great hook and sometimes the bulk of instruction for certain lessons. But finding quality, timely video content can be a challenge. That’s where Flocabulary's Week in Rap comes in. Flocabulary has standards-aligned hip-hop songs and videos for students in grades K-12. To access videos and…
How Flocabulary video lessons are created
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How to teach comprehension across the curriculum with Flocabulary Plus
All too often, the development of reading comprehension strategies is limited to the ELA classroom. There are so many content standards to cover in non-ELA subjects, and it can be difficult to find time to invite students to read with a purpose and analyze subject-specific texts. But with a generation of students who are exposed to more written, audio, and visual content than any generation before, it’s critical to develop and hone comprehension and literacy skills using a wide variety of texts in multiple mediums and contexts. The outsize—and growing—role of video content in daily life and in the classroom…