Creator: Kari Ness Riedel | visit site
Grade Range: K - 6
Bookopolis is more than an online social reading club for children ages 7-12. It has an education portal to keep track of and review a reader’s work. Scroll down the landing page to find recommended books, popular books, books by grade level, and read ratings and reviews from other readers. Bookopolis includes digital reading logs, reading log prompts, and suggests places to find comprehension questions about the book. Through the educator dashboard, monitor and comment on the reader’s writing and reading logs. The activities and features on the site are aligned with many of the Common Core Reading and Writing standards. There are several video tutorials on getting started and how to use the dashboard. The videos are hosted on YouTube. If your district blocks YouTube, they may not be viewable.
In the Classroom
Create your account with one of several social media programs, or your email, teacher name, username, and some basic information. Create your dashboard by adding a class and class name. You can create multiple classes. From the teacher dashboard on right menu choose Teacher Resources to view the several teacher video tutorials to get started. Click the class name to add students; student accounts can be created manually or by importing an XLS or CSV file. Students will automatically be "friends" with other students in the same class, but can also invite students from different classes. Share this site with students (and parents at back to school night) using your interactive whiteboard or projector. Students also have video tutorials; show students the video tutorial "How to Add Books" to get them started. In your blended or remote learning classroom enhance students’ learning for this tool using the tutorial (s) along with Vizia, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17848">reviewed here</a>, to add comments and information. Students can create bookshelves for books they are reading, that they have read, and that they want to read. Students can earn points and badges for the books they read. This tool will get students excited about reading since they can connect with friends to share book reviews and swap book recommendations. Students also practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. This tool is great to keep track of student home reading or if you are teaching remotely! Besure to list this site in a parent newsletter or on your website as one to use to avoid the "summer reading slide."
At Home
Use this site as a resource to help your son or daughter find age-appropriate books of interest to him/her. Select a book together and create a book club by inviting your son or daughter’s friends to discuss books based on the questions on this site. Talk about the review your student will write. Sign up as a "teacher" to get a dashboard where you will learn a lot about what your student is reading, what interests him/her, and his/her outlook and opinion on various topics.
Tags
social networking, book lists, book reports, reading comprehension, independent reading, guided reading, classroom management, Teacher Utilities, remote learning,
Subjects
English, ESL/ELL, Language Arts, Reading, Special Education, Writing,