Flocabulary Team, Author at The Flocabulary Blog

August 11, 2016
Flocabulary Team

Flocabulary is Featured on Learning List

We are excited to announce that Flocabulary has been reviewed by Learning List, an organization that helps teachers discover educational resources and tools that support the needs of their curriculum.

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August 9, 2016
Flocabulary Team

Vote for Flocabulary at SXSWedu!

This year, SXSWedu takes place in Austin, TX on March 6-9, 2017 and we’re hoping to make a big splash! We’ve put together – or have been invited to join – a number of interesting and diverse session proposals showcasing different faces and focuses at Flocabulary. To make it to the conference, though, we need your help! Check out a list of sessions featuring members of the Flocab team below, and cast a vote for your favorites! And guess what? You can vote for as many as you like!

Ready to vote? Visit the SXSW PanelPicker and sign-in! Then use the direct links below to find our sessions and place your vote! Thanks for your support, Flocab friends. 😎

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August 4, 2016
Flocabulary Team

The Week in Rap Junior: New & Improved for a New School Year

The Week in Rap Junior is back and better than ever! We’re kicking off the school year with a new and improved current events video suggested for grades 3-5. After hearing from teachers and administrators, we’ve made some requested changes that we think you’ll love.

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July 28, 2016
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Flocabulary’s Lyric Lab: A Springboard to Student Creativity

Flocabulary has always been about innovating student engagement and learning. At the forefront of our new Flocab features this coming school year is Lyric Lab, a tool built right within Flocabulary units that allow students to write their own academic rhymes.

Our videos engage students, instructional tools let them master content, and now Lyric Lab places writing and creativity at their fingertips. Students can demonstrate content mastery not just through Read & Respond or an assigned quiz, but by applying their knowledge through writing, too.

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July 27, 2016
Flocabulary Team

Develop Reading Skills with Flocabulary’s New Feature, Read & Respond

The Flocabulary team has been working diligently over the past year to bring exciting and practical new features to classrooms this fall. To familiarize you with our shiny new Flocab, we’re sharing the low-down on each of our new features on the blog.

To start, let’s review our new reading feature, Read & Respond. This new addition empowers students to develop close reading and content area literacy skills in select Flocabulary units, and we’re pretty pumped to share it with you.

How does Read & Respond work?

Read & Respond provides short, assignable reading passages and practice questions that are based on content presented in the unit’s video and lyrics. Students can dive deeper and think more critically about the unit’s content and simultaneously practice their reading skills. Read & Respond passages are based on both fiction and non-fiction texts, and the workflow emulates a similar structure to what students will experience on high-stakes tests.

To keep the learning experience streamlined, students answer questions right within the Flocabulary unit.

Here’s a glimpse of how Read & Respond works:

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