Engage Students In Free Reading!

How do you get students engaged and excited to read and write about what they are reading?  I’ll give you a one word answer – Feedly!  Often overlooked as a classroom reading option is to use a tool like Feedly to pull things that truly interest students and deliver them directly in one place.  Part of the appeal of the web is that there are websites and blogs for just about any topic you can conceive of!  The beauty of Feedly is that it collects all the updates/new posts from all websites from their favorite topics in one place rather than them taking precious classroom time to find things that interest them.  The concept is simple – keep their book bins full of great, interesting, thought-provoking things to read about without lifting a finger. The most exciting thing is they like it!  But how does Feedly work? Feedly works on…

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