SMART PLACE

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SMART PLACE

• The Technology Components for Scholastic Literacy
  Place

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What Do You Need?

• Program CD for every student
• Folder to save student work H drive
• Microphone (if you want to record)
• Headphone (optional)

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Components

• Meet the Mentor
• PlaceMaker
• Smart Book

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Log in
2. Make sure your name is checked. 3. Click on
GO
1. Add your name
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Meet the Mentor

• Smart Place is used anytime after Mentor video
• Meet the Mentor is an interactive site Learn
  about the mentors background, their work and
  their strategies for success.
• Students can take the challenge section
  individually or collaboratively. Students can
  think like the mentor in a writing activity.

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Meet the Mentor
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Smart Book

• Smart Book is a selected story for the beginning
  of the unit
• Students can read the story alone or with a group
• Think Links" provide reading strategy practice
• Think Links" help students use reading
  strategies
• Most Think Links include Kid Tip\models
• Students will be asked to highlight, stamp or
  write a sticky note using specific strategies

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Smart Book
Smart spots
Think link Activates prior knowledge
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SmartBook

• Additional story information is provided with
  links to Smart Spots
• Students can save Sticky Notes and responses
• Teachers can view all student responses including
  recordings (Find)
• Students can save responses to their individual
  folders (H Drive) to complete later

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Smart Book Tools
Highlighter
Stamp
Sticky Note
Eraser
Dictionary
Record
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Smart Book
Sticky Note
Click on words in a different color to go to more
information Think Link
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Highlight
Click on Highlight Tool
Highlighted area turns into underlined text
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How to Find Highlights

• Go to the top bar
• Click on Find
• Click on Highlights

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Highlight Continued
Click on Find All Highlights
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Highlights Continued
Click on screens you want to find
Click on Go To or Print
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Print Highlights
Go To Finds the page and sections student
highlighted. Print The best option is to print
list.
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Sticky Notes
Sticky Notes and Stamps can be found in the same
way as Highlights
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Stamps
Stamps can also be found in the same way as
Highlights and Sticky Notes.
Check Choose Stamp to change to a different
kinds of stamp.
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Dictionary Feature
Use magnifier to click on word in red. Dictionary
definition appears.
Click on Dictionary magnifying glass appears
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Other Features
Summary information for Smart Spot Index Think
Link Index
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Smart Spot Index

• Links to specific information found in the text
• Can be used as a prior knowledge review

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Think Link Index

• Summary of the skills practiced in the specific
  unit
• Links to the page where the skill is practiced

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Place Maker
Creative opportunities for students
Ready made area creates Banners Posters and Cards
that go with the theme of the unit
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Grade 3 Books

• Unit 1-Whats New?
• Objective- Students learn to compare and contrast
  information in the Smart Book-Gila Monsters Meet
  You at the Airport by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
• Unit 2-Big Plans
• Objective- Students learn to identify steps in a
  process in the Smart Book-The Book of Think by
  Marilyn Burns
• Unit 3-On the Job
• Objective- Students learn to visualize nature and
  action in the Smart Book-Fire! in Yellowstone by
  Robery Ekey
• Unit 4-Hit Series
• Objective- Students learn to draw conclusions in
  the Smart Book-Jessis Baby-sitter by Ann Martin
• Unit 5-Time Detectives
• Objective- Students learn to categorize
  information in the Smart Book-Clues to the Past
  A-Z by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
• Unit 6-
• Objective- Students learn to identify themes in
  the Smart Book-If Your Name was Changed at Ellis
  Island by Ellen Levine

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Grade 4 Books

• Unit 1-Chapter by Chapter
• Objective- Students learn to draw conclusions in
  the Smart Book-Cherokee Summer by Diane
  Hoyt-Oldsmith
• Unit 2-What an Idea!
• Objective- Students learn to make inferences in
  the Smart Book-The Invention of Sneakers by
  Steven Caney
• Unit 3-Discovery Teams
• Objective- Students learn to summarize in the
  Smart Book-The Desert Beneath the Sea by Ann
  McGovern
• Unit 4-The Funny Side
• Objective- Students learn to summarize in the
  Smart Book-Laughing is Good for You by Karen
  Burns
• Unit 5-Nature Guides
• Objective- Students learn to summarize in the
  Smart Book-Swimming with Sea Lions by Ann
  McGovern
• Unit 6-It Takes a Leader
• Objective- Students learn to identify cause and
  effect in the Smart Book-Dinner at Aunt Connies
  House by Faith Ringgold

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Grade 5 Books

• Unit 1-Making a Difference
• Objective- Students learn to identify cause and
  effect in the Smart Book- Like Father, Like
  SonThe Griffeys by Terry Egan, Stan Friedman,
  and Mike Levine
• Unit 2-Its a Mystery
• Objective- Students learn to paraphrase passages
  in the Smart book- The Secrets of Vesuvius by
  Sara C. Bisel
• Unit 3-Voyagers
• Objective- Students learn to identify Main Ideas
  and details in the Smart Book-Amazon by Peter
  Lourie
• Unit 4-In the Spotlight
• Objective- Students learn to identify Main Ideas
  and details in the Smart Book-A Few Appropriate
  Remarks by Harold Holzer
• Unit 5-Americas Journal
• Objective- Students learn to practice sequencing
  in the Smart Book-Paul Reveres Ride by Henry
  Wadsworth Longfellow
• Unit 6-Cityscapes
• Objective- Students learn to identify plot
  elements in the Smart Book-Maniac Magee by Jerry
  Spinelli

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Grade 6 Books

• Unit 1-Self-Portraits
• Objective-Students learn to evaluate the authors
  purpose in the Smart Book Zlatas Diary by Zlata
  Filipovic.
• Unit 2- Meet the Challenge
• Objective- Students learn to summarize
  information in the Smart Book- Black Star, Bright
  Dawn by Scott O Dell.
• Unit 3- Open for Business
• Objective- Students learn to identify main ideas
  in the Smart Book-The Jeans Team by Nancy
  Fitzgerald
• Unit 4- Worlds of Wonder
• Objective- Students learn to summarize
  information in the Smart Book-Favorite Greek
  Myths retold by Mary Pope Osborne
• Unit 5- In the News
• Objective- Students learn to analyze cause and
  effect in the Smart Book-Exploring the Titanic by
  Robert Ballard
• Unit 6-Voices for Democracy
• Objective- Students learn to identify main ideas
  in the Smart Book-Honoring Their Ancestors by
  Barbara A. Lewis

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Smart Place Users Guide
More detailed information is located in the
Users Guide for each grade/ unit level.
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Collaboration Contributors

• Educational Technologists
• Joe Cook
• Kerwin Jones
• Jackie Kelly

• Literacy Facilitators
• Eleanor Allen
• Linda Mackey
• Nancy Turner

All photos are from Scholastic Smart Place
CD-ROMs, Scholastic Inc., New York, 1996