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NoRedInk: Help Your Students Improve their Grammar Skills
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Activity Website:
Tech Product/Equipment:
Computer and projector, Mobile devices for students
Activity Description
NoRedInk offers teachers and students grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and writing skills instruction, adjusting questions based on student answers and abilities. The teacher starts with a diagnostic test. As students answer the questions the content changes. When students answer incorrectly, tutorials help them correct their mistakes and move forward.
Assignments, quizzes, and diagnostics are easy to create and ready to use immediately. Student progress is tracked so the teacher knows what is happening and can adjust instruction.
Preparation
- Make sure that the site is not blocked at your school before assigning students to use it.
- Watch the 2-minute video introduction on using NoRedInk. As you scroll down the page you will find short videos on adding students to your class and creating an assignment
- Enroll as a teacher.
- Set up your class.
- Set up a diagnostic assessment. This is simple and can be done in a very short time.
- Add an assignment on a grammar subject you are currently studying. Again, creating assignments is selecting the topic, selecting the subtopics, and selecting the number of questions.
- Download and print the Example Document - How to Enroll in NoRedInk - Students (above).
How-To
- Introduce the topic of writing and grammar.
- On the teacher's computer, go to the Example Web Site link (above).
- Demonstrate how to enroll by enrolling one of the students.
- Hand out the instructions for how to enroll.
- Demonstrate the Grammar Rules by selecting Rules on the menu bar.
- As a class go through a quiz or diagnostic.
- Assign students to enroll and go through the diagnostics.
- On the second day, go through how students can see how they did on their assignments, quizzes, etc.
Teacher Tips
- Use the Grammar Rules (under Rules on the Menu bar) to introduce a topic.
More Ways
- After logging in, watch the videos in the Help Center. The video titled Teacher Tip: Using the "Practice" Page will give you ideas on how to use the Practice page with your students to incentivize them.
Program Areas
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
- ESL: English as a Second Language
- ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation
- ASE: High School Diploma
Levels
- Low
- Intermediate
- High
- Intermediate High
- Advanced
