Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Raz-kids
Raz-kids is an online interactive reading tool, with printable books, to practice reading fluency and comprehension.

Student Engagement: 3
Students mostly use the app when directed.  Users can earn points to build a robot by the number of books read and quiz questions answered correctly.

Accessibility/Relevance: 3
Reading accounts with a variety of book genres at all reading levels with assessment of comprehension questions,

Capabilities/Customization: 3
Readers are able to listen to and/or read books at self-paced reading levels with record of log in time, quizzes and options for assignments to monitor progress.

Safety: 4
Users have individual usernames and passwords.

Thinking Skills: 3

Books at various levels and genres to engage readers and encourage reading to improve fluency and comprehension.

Elementary Evaluation Tool


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Student Engagement
Avoids app
Uses app but does not make connections to prior learning.
Uses app when directed.
Highly Motivated to use the app.

Accessibility/
Relevance
Not able to use for multiple purposes
Limited availability to use across contents
Purposeful and appropriate
across content areas
Engaging across all content areas


Capabilities/ Customization
No access to camera, video, microphone and other libraries.
Limited use of settings to meet student’s need.
Flexible settings to models strategies, ability to create, structure, or build
Interactive and the ability to change content settings to model strategies and ability to create and build.

Safety
No private access availability
Class Login with personal password
Individual Log in & password.
Individual Log in & password with data available within class roster

Thinking Skills
Limited use of lower order thinking skills.
Mostly lower order thinking skills to understand and remember.
Use of higher order thinking skills including evaluating, analyzing and applying.
Use of higher order thinking skills including creating, evaluating and analyzing.

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