I just have to introduce you to my new BFF..FFFF! We will just call her HearAll Assessment Recorder from Learning Resources! This is seriously my new favorite toy and I can’t wait to put it to use with my thirdsters {is that a word?} this year! There are a billion ways that you could use this amazing gadget, {fluency assessment, reader’s theatre, literature circles, independent reading, etc.} but I can’t wait to incorporate it into our weekly “Book-it to Me” next year in third grade
Each week, my students work during independent reading time to read and respond to a chapter book that is matched with another student, or a group of students in the classroom…you know…a chit chat kinda deal with a little more oomph! {More to come about this later}.
They are in love and so am I…BUT one teacher to 6 groups makes it challenging to accurately assess each group and provide them with effective feedback to enhance their conversations and discussions about their book. Thanks to my new BFF, I have cloned my ears! I can hear everybody…yes everybody! And we all say…Hallelujah!
By using the HearAll Assessment, I will be able to actively listen to all of my groups, monitor learning and discussions, provide effective feedback, and assess progress all at the same time! My new BFF is super easy to use which makes me love her even that much more. She comes installed with a battery that you charge using a USB cord. It's so easy to open folders and play recordings too. Just incase that doesn’t work, she also comes with user-friendly directions to help you in all of your times of need! I am telling you, she is the perfect companion! :)
Now, for the best part! You can win your very own HearAll Assessment Recorder! There are several ways to enter, so read carefully!
1. Follow my blog and tell me how you plan to use your new BFF in your classroom next year!
2. Follow Learning Resource’s blog and tell them that Second Grade Shenanigans sent you over!
3. Follow Learning Resources on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.
4. Blog about this post and leave a link in my comments section!
Easy..right? The winner will be selected next Wednesday, July 4th!
I would REALLY love this! I'll be a first year teacher next year (in 2nd Grade) and know this would really support me in being reflective about student needs!
ReplyDeleteI would use it for the students to check their fluency.
ReplyDeleteLorena
Little Treasures
This looks like an amazing tool for the classroom! :)
ReplyDeletekimberlycollatos@comcast.net
I am going to be a first year teacher, so this would be a really great resource for my new students! Thank you :)
ReplyDeletemsyoshida@yahoo.com
I would love to use this during small groups in order to monitor fluency and accuracy!!
ReplyDeletecourtni_con@hotmail.com
I would be thrilled to have a Hear All Recorder in my classroom. I would use is for fluency work.
ReplyDeleteAimee
Pencils, Books, and Dirty Looks
I would have my students record themselves reading aloud and then listen back. This would be a great way to monitor fluency and accuracy.
ReplyDeleteConnie:)
email: matya105@aol.com
What a great product!! I just got back from seeing the Daily 5 and Cafe workshops with the Sisters in Seattle. This would be great to use during my workshops!! You truly are amazing!! How do you do it? Come check out my blog...I'm fairly new and would love to have you as a follower!
ReplyDeleteChrista
sweetlifeofsecond
I would love, love, love to have this with my third graders. It would be great for fluency and accuracy!
ReplyDeleteI would use it to monitor the fluency of my students & to record them sharing their writings during shared writing time! :)
ReplyDeleteLisa
Learning Is Something to Treasure
I made up the word thirdsters last year, so I wouldn't say it's a legit word. However, firsties really caught on... and so did craftivity... so maybe we can make this one stick too, eh?! :)
ReplyDeleteI would use it with my reading groups so I could monitor my students accuracy and fluency!
ReplyDeleteHeather
The Busy Busy Hive
I would use it for fluency
ReplyDeleteimgoingfirst@gmail.com
I would us this math rotations. I would randomly pick a group to record so that I can play it back and use it as a teaching tool for the rest of the class.
ReplyDelete(That's just one thing I'd do.)
Elizabeth
Fun in Room 4B
You have amazing items in your Tpt store. I purchased some of them to use in my classroom last year.
ReplyDeleteI am new blogging world, and I just opened my blog and TpT store this week! I could use all the help possible to get some followers! Check out my blog and let me know what you think and I would love some suggestions!
Spotted in First Grade
Thanks, Kelli
Oh my goodness! This sounds so amazing! Last year was my first year with my own group of second graders and I stuck them in groups all the time, but had the hardest time following up with the informal assessing....walking around and chatting/listening works great until one group needs help with something....
ReplyDeleteI would love using your new BFF as I follow my second graders to third next year! It would really help me to follow up on the assessments as well as meet my personal goal of really focusing on my high achievers!
Yay! I have wanted one of these for a LONG while and I'm so excited about the chance! I would use it in my Read to Someone working area during Daily 5 to check for students being on-task...and I'm not even sure I would tell them it was there at first!
ReplyDeleteI would use it during running records to go back and listen again to the students,
ReplyDeleteThis is a fun little tool and giveaway! So I got thinking and the idea of students using a warm text and recording themselves reading a story. Then making that recording the book that is featured in the listening center! They would be the "famous" reader for the week! I think that would make the kids LOVE listening center. I also think monitoring lit circles would be another great use for this tool.
ReplyDeleteShannon
This would be an awesome tool for assessing reading fluency!
ReplyDeleteLiz
This is great! I would have my students work on their fluency, by reading into the "BFF" and then playing back what they read so they can hear what words they stumbled over, if their fluency has improved, etc!
ReplyDeleteNesli
nxmonr@gmail.com
Visit my blog! I'm new at the blog thing! :)
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I would use this for fluency assessments
ReplyDeleteThis would be great for me to assess and monitor student progress in reading and I would have the students listen to it themselves for self assessment. Self assessment is big at my school, no matter the grade level. I love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Hope for offering an opportunity to win this. It seems so awesome. I would use it to be my ears during literacy block, recording children while they are reading to self or while they practice a Reader's theatre. I would love it to monitor fluency and save their work samples for conferences. The best readings could become part of our Listening station. I think it would be an awesome tool that would open many doors to the children in use of technology.
ReplyDeleteDonna
darryl40w@att.net
Woo hoo; I am new to second grade next year and LOVE following second grade blogs...especially ones that host great giveaways!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I'm always looking for new ways to monitor my students' fluency and accuracy. This would help me make personalized plans to meet individual needs.
ReplyDeleteI would use it to monitor fluency, I think students will get a kick out of hearing themselves and use it as a motivational tool to read more accurately.
ReplyDeleteFaithful in First
This would be an awesome tool for me.
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Delena
Learn with ME in Grade Three
I blogged about the giveaway here:
ReplyDeletehttp://faithfulinfirst.blogspot.com/2012/06/another-giveaway-for-hear-all.html
this would be great for my students!
ReplyDeleteWho wouldn't want this for their classroom? Love it!
ReplyDeleteI love this! It would be so great to monitor students during reading time and also to monitor them during center/station time (math and reading stations).
ReplyDeleteI blogged about your giveaway!
http://crayonscurls.blogspot.com/2012/06/learning-resources-giveaway.html
Cheryl
cener(at)sbcglobal(dot)net
Crayons and Curls
I would love to use this in my classroom! It would be a great assessment tool.
ReplyDeleteHeather Bridges
Krazy about Kindy
This would be useful in my classroom. khall312@verizon.net
ReplyDeleteGREAT LEARNING PRODUCT.
ReplyDeletejimpat34@broadstripe.net
I will use it to help increase fluency. This would be great for readers theater, poetry, creative stories, and lots more! amybandera@aol.com
ReplyDeleteThere are many great ways this could be used. Right off the bat I see it in my Literature Circles group so that I can hear what they are discussing while I am with a different GR group. Then we can discuss it when they are in GR with me.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many things I could use this for! It would definitely help me in meeting the needs of all my students. Oh the possibilities!
ReplyDeleteAshlee
Www.funin2.blogspot.com
Aldaniels15@yahoo.com
I follow your blog. I would use this for fluency, running records, and so the children could hear themselves when they read.
ReplyDeletelraines78@gmail.com
We use AIMSweb in our district and I think this would be a great tool for our weekly progress monitoring as well as hearing all of the students read.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have this with my new large group of second graders.
Cindy
CL14Mentor@oh.rr.com
This is like having ears in the back of your head or like being in two place at once! How great!
ReplyDeletedianadirubbo@gmail.com
I would use it for student fluency. This is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely into small groups and wished I could have been a fly on the wall when they would meet to discuss the book, but like you said, I'm only one person! This is a great device! Hope I can get it one way or another!
ReplyDeletehannahbai@gmail.com
I follow your blog and would love to use this during reader's workshop!
ReplyDeleteI am a faithful follower and I think...FLUENCY!
ReplyDeleteThis would be a great tool to use with my hesitant readers to build fluency! It was my students' greatest struggle last year! nadostaler@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteThis tool sounds amazing! We are incorporating the Daily Cafe into classrooms this year, along with Daily 5. I'm wondering if this tool could work for an extra Guided Reading group while I'm conferencing with other students. If I print the GR lesson and have the kids facilitate it, I could go back and listen to their responses. Could this work?
ReplyDeleteThis would be an amazing tool for so many things in my classroom! I could use it for RTI year round, running records and even for fluency progress for my entire classroom. What a great tool!
ReplyDeleteellice.best@hotmail.com
I would love to have this tool to use in my classroom!!!
ReplyDeleteI would use this for small group work and individual fluency practice.
ReplyDeletemike69361@gmail.com
I would use this for fluency in my 1st grade classroom.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
Epodolski@arcsgalloway.org
I want it!!!!
ReplyDeleteMegan
I Teach. What's Your Super Power?
Hey! I blogged about your giveaway tonight! Check it out here!
ReplyDeleteJackie
Third Grade's A Charm
I love your blog and all your wonderful ideas! I would love to use this tool in my classroom to monitor group discussions and help the students practice their fluency.
ReplyDeleteBrittany
Birdie 97@aol.com
You have great ideas! I would use this tool for the "Read to yourself" portion of my Daily 5. I would use it to check for fluency, as well as to share with parents. This would be a great way to share fluency progress with parents! Thank you for your ideas!
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mszellitti@gmail.com
First of all, I love coming to your blog because I am always so inspired (and good luck in 3rd next year!). This will be my secon stead of teaching and second year in second grade (whew a lot of seconds in that sentence!). I would use these in so many ways. I would incorporate how you mentioned it above, but would also use it for some of my students who are more shy and may not want to come to the front of the class to read and share a report. They could have the option of recording it. Also I would use it for math. For example, partial sums addition. I would have the students write out what they are saying into it and then I can look at their paper and listen to them to ensure they know the steps and are doing it correctly. Thanks for this giveaway!!! Laurenscotta@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteHope - I commend you for having such a positive attitude and for being such a GIVER...you definitely motivate me to be a better teacher:) If I had your BFF, I would use it for a myriad of tasks - fluency checks, buddy reading and independent reading assessments, small group work, writing center accountability (are they just chit-chatting, or talking about their writing???), etc., etc. Thank you for giving us the chance to win and for sharing your FABULOUS ideas!
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Jessica
jessica21880@hotmail.com
I would have my new bff record when my students do their fluency test and I would play it back for the students during our mini-conference so we could discuss what errors they are making and fix-up strategies to use for better fluency. The students could record themselves books reading also.I’m your newest follower. Please check out my blog if you get a chance. Calling Plays in 2nd Grade.
ReplyDeleteShanell
This is a classroom necessity! There are so many uses for a HearAll Assessment. Such a great find. And thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteKrystal Schechter
I would teach my son how to read.
ReplyDeleteTam Sweeps RC/FB
I would use this in many ways but I will spare all the ways and narrow it down to 2: First, I would use it to have students record their fluency passages or reader's theater. Secondly, I want my children to interview others and this would allow them to record the interviews.
ReplyDeleteAmy
Where Seconds Count 2nd grade blog
I would love to use this with my class to let them hear their own reading!
ReplyDeleteJenny
Luckeyfrog's Lilypad
I would love to win this! It would be great for my first graders to record stories! We could make them into audio/picture books on the ipad or just add them to the listening center. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMelissa
would be useful certainly for reading/discussion exercises
ReplyDeletebrich22 at earthlink dot net
I would absolutely LOVE to win this because it will be my first year teaching so having this would be awesome to begin with. I would use it in many ways, I would have my students take turns recording stories so that we can listen together or so they can listen in the listening center!
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andreahenson11@gmail.com
This would be so wonderful to have in my classroom for so many things! Thanks for hosting this giveaway! I am your newest follower! Come check out my blog, I am having a giveaway too!
ReplyDeleteTeaching Joys
I am a second year teacher and I have been looking for something like this! I would love to use this to have students record and listen to themselves and so I can keep track of how and what my students are reading. Awesome tool for a listening center!! Your blog is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteOh man this would make assessment in the classroom so much less of a hassle. I definitely would use it to incorporate into Daily 5 and monitor fluency. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is so adorable, I get so much inspiration from it as a relatively new teacher!! :)
Wow! This looks like a great tool. I, like others, am going to be new to a grade this year. This would be wonderful in my classroom for my students. It is a great anchor point for a listening center, when I don't have anything to use currently!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all of your great ideas.
kidteach4@yahoo.com
Wow! What a cool tool! I would use it to keep my 5th graders on task. We would use it in centers like everyone else while I am teaching small groups. I would also use it before project presentations. Some students get very nervous, so they could practice first. I would also use it for parent conferences to show how students are progressing. Thanks for offering this terrific prize!
ReplyDeleteMy students would love this! I love that now we won't just have "eyes on the back of our heads", but ears on the tables. :)
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