Do you use the PebbleGo online database with your elementary students? PebbleGo supports UDL by highlighting words as they are read to the students. The entries are also media-rich so that students can further see and hear to learn about the topics. It provides a terrific way to start teaching research skills to young students who need more reading skills to gather information from text-based resources.
Students at my school are introduced to PebbleGo beginning in Kindergarten as part of our Information & Communication Literacies (ICL) curriculum. In Grade 1, we guide students to understand further how the information is organized. In Grade 2, they start taking notes using a provided organizer with guiding questions.
The following is a link to a short video of Doris Clingman, our assistant librarian, describing a lesson with students researching a PYP unit of study. She is working with Second Graders in our Spanish program.
Using Online Database for Inquiry
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