5 Excellent (and Free!) Tools for Building Playlists
Ed Puzzle gives teachers a way to assess work students do with videos. It keeps track of when and how many times students watch a clip. It also allows teachers to insert questions to check student comprehension.
Wonderopolis is a great resource for nonfiction articles. Students have the option of listening to the article read aloud, and can take a short quiz afterward to check understanding. Many extension activities are also suggested.
NewsELA also offers a huge collection of nonfiction articles. The beauty of this site is that the reading level of the articles can be adjusted to meet student need. This makes differentiation so easy! Teachers can make accounts to track student work.
Quizizz is a quiz game creator (similar to Kahoot). The benefit to Quizizz is that the games do not have to be played in real time. Some students could play during class, while others might play for homework. Students are also able to play on their own device without the need for a Smartboard.
Quizlet allows teachers and students to create digital flash cards. The site has a built-in dictionary to make creation easier, as well as a large photo library to illustrate terms. Quizlet can read cards aloud to the students, and generates several different quizzes and games for students to practice.
By Kathryn Grindstaff Gregorsok
Need an example? Here are some playlists (reteaching, reinforcing, enriching) that I made for my 5th grade science classes.