They can choose from a HUGE library of books that not only interest them, but also will be read aloud. If you have a listening center during your literacy stations, or if you have been meaning to establish one, this is the answer to your longing wishes! Students can sort books based on text type - one of those choices is "Read to Me." For my struggling readers, this has been amazing. They can also browse top rated books that have been "liked" or recommended by students similar to them. This is a great place for your students to find new and interesting books. This feature is a lot like standing at the bookstore, looking at a wall of thousands of books, and the ones that you would be most interested, in glowing in bright neon. Students can BROWSE the books that are recommended for them based on the results of the interest survey they took when setting up the account. I have taught my students three different ways to read on EPIC! Browse, Sort and Search. The app does suggest other titles outside of the selected topics, so don't think if your student only likes sharks, that those will be the only books available. Your students can select their age (interest level), as well as interesting topics (animals, sports, science, etc). Upon first getting into their account, they will be promoted to take the interest survey. You and your students can create personalized accounts that are password protected. My below level second graders did not enjoy seeing ABCs and Where is Baby's Belly Button? in their recommended book list. I thought that by dropping the age range on the initial student profile it would help level the books more effectively, but it only changed the interest topics. Some of the texts are leveled by Lexile, but for the lower level texts, there is not enough information to match students with independent level texts. I will say a feature that is currently lacking is access to reading levels. It's also a great opportunity to make use of the teacher collections and begin suggesting titles to help those lovies make good choices. This is a great way to spot FAKE READING, and have a one on one conference with the student about their reading behaviors. This will tell you so much information, included how many pages have been flipped, in a certain amount of time. If you choose, you can look even closer as each student's reading log. You also get a snapshot of each student account, that shows how many books they have finished, and how many hours they have read. This is a perfect way to set class goals, graph monthly totals and compare numbers from month to month. IF you thought being able to suggest books to students, and essentially message them the title was cool.hold on! The teacher dashboard is my favorite part! On your dashboard, you can see how many books, and how many hours your class has read as a whole. This ensures that my students will get a notification in their "mailbox" and we do not need to take time finding the book - it just right there for them! The book below was a perfect fiction text pairing for a non-fiction text that my students were reading from our Fountas and Pinnell Level Literacy Intervention (LLI) kits. I also have created a "collection" of just one book so I can assign a specific book for a guided reading group. These quizzes are a simple way to keep my students on task and hold them accountable for their independent reading. With these libraries, I can also create and assign quizzes. During assessment windows when the RtI team (3 teachers) has 30 students in the room, but we are only assessing THREE at a time, we need an easy to manage activity that keeps the kids quiet, focused and engaged. I use this feature to assign specific titles to my kiddos. In your "teacher library" you can create collections that can be shared with students.
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