Blog Following - Teaching Reading Strategies with Popplet

This week on Erin's blog she talks about using Popplet in the classroom. Popplet is a simple graphic organizer app that students can use. Popplet allows students to make boxes, called "popples" on a blank canvas. They can move popples around or connect them together to make chains and webs. Students can type, draw, or add images from the camera roll to their popples. The app is open-ended so that mutliple reading strategies can be addressed. 

Using Popplet to Practice Reading Strategies

1. Use Popplet to create character trait webs.

When creating character trait maps, each popple connected to the character popple should include either picture or text evidence of the character exhibiting that trait. This can be differentiated easily enough to suit your students’ needs by adjusting the amount of traits needed or the type of evidence.
2. Use Popplet to practice cause and effect.
Students write the Effect in one popple then connect additional Cause popples to it.  They can take pictures of where they found the information in the text and insert it into the Cause popples.
Students are able to create multiple chains of causes leading up to the big effect.  They can also see that there are different causes for the same effect.

3. Use Popplet to make a vocabulary web.

Students can dig deeper into vocabulary words by linking pictures, sentences, and the definition to the word.
These are just a few of the ways you can use popplet in the classroom. It can be used in other subject areas too!
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  1. Megan TomesApril 14, 2019 at 2:35 PM

    I had never heard of this tech tool! Using it to create character maps and cause and effect charts is a great idea. I could use this to have my students create a web of adjectives for a zoo animal (we are currently in our zoo thematic unit). Thanks for sharing!

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  2. AnonymousApril 14, 2019 at 3:26 PM

    This is a neat tech tool! I can see this being a great way to story map, but also a way to brainstorm writing pieces! Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Jannelle SchneiderApril 14, 2019 at 4:37 PM

    I think this application would work with my 5th graders on our current standard. We are comparing and contrasting stories within a genre. This application would be great to replace the standard T chart or Venn diagram. Brian I agree that this would also work like a graphic organizer for students to write.

    Best Regards,
    Jannelle Schneider

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  4. Verbon Graves IIIApril 14, 2019 at 8:11 PM

    Wow! I've never heard of this tool, but it is one I definitely be considering adding to my lesson plans for next year. I also think it would be something that my classroom teachers would enjoy using with their students.

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