Press Release: Flocabulary Debuts Cross-Curricular News Program For Grades K-5

Press Release: Flocabulary Debuts Cross-Curricular News Program for Grades K-5

Flocabulary, creator of educational hip-hop videos, activities and assessments, today announces the launch of TheWeek in Rap Junior, a weekly program that engages elementary students in cross-curricular learning through age-appropriate news stories. With a new video, standards-based exercises and an interactive creative challenge each week, the dynamic series provides a unique platform to teach core subjects through real-world news and promote the development of important skills like reading, writing and critical thinking. The new program reflects Flocabulary’s commitment to bringing value to a wider range of students and educators while continuing to deepen and enrich the curricular experience on its…

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New Student Assessment Features And Reporting Tools For Teachers Are Here!

New student assessment features and reporting tools for teachers are here!

Last week, we rolled out some brand new features on our site. We’re really excited about how these updates will not only help teachers to check student comprehension but also to use Flocabulary for planning, differentiation and intervention in the classroom. Our new online assessments offer students a more interactive experience, allowing them to demonstrate what they learned from our videos and activities. And with these student features, we’ve created some great new assigning and reporting tools for teachers, too! Explore our new features and what they’ll bring to your classroom below: Check comprehension with a quiz Now, in addition…

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Press Release: Flocabulary Debuts Student Assessments And Reporting Tools For Back To School

Press Release: Flocabulary Debuts Student Assessments and Reporting Tools for Back to School

Brooklyn, N.Y., July 21, 2015 – Today Flocabulary announced the launch of a new suite of features to help teachers, schools and districts assess student knowledge and diagnose needs for differentiation and intervention. In addition to the educational hip-hop videos and interactive activities Flocabulary is known for, each instructional unit now features an auto-graded formative assessment for students. Updated features include a new dashboard for teachers to assign units and analyze student results to inform their instruction. "Teachers have enjoyed using Flocabulary’s videos and activities to engage students and supplement instruction across the curriculum," says Flocabulary co-founder and CEO Alex…

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The Week In Rap Extra: Read All About It!

The Week in Rap Extra: Read All About It!

Here at Flocab HQ, we’ve been thinking a lot about the news topics that seem to come up week to week. For every Week in Rap video we release, we try to make sure to give you a quick summary of a bunch of major headlines - and sometimes, we don’t have time to dive deep into the larger, important issues (we’re working with a two-minute rap video, you know?!). That’s why we’ve decided to kick off a new type of video - the Week in Rap Extra. With this series, we’re providing a more in-depth resource to help explain…

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Student Oxymorons

Student Oxymorons

Every week, our Week in Rap Shout-Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. For this week’s contest, we challenged you to create original oxymorons. Oxymorons seem to contradict themselves, and this contradiction can be a powerful literary device. Phrases that seem nonsensical at first can force the reader to dig deeper to understand their meaning.

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