Community reviews for Curriculet

This teaching tool has a host of resources that adds variety of tools to group collaboration that is user friendly.

As a librarian, I would love to share this resource with my teachers- if only it worked.

I think this can be a great tool, but it doesn't replace conversational interaction about texts. It is good to create focused reading before discussion.

Great for 1:1 classrooms. Students can access and interact with text on their devices and teachers can monitor time spent on text and students' interaction with text. Product is free!

Curriculut provides teachers with an outstanding tool to help their students in meeting the literacy standards associated with the new Common Core State Standards. Students can join the class created by the teacher, but have to do so themselves as the teacher cannot simply create accounts for them. I know that this tool is new, but their current choices of available content is lacking. I hope that this grows overtime, but the ability for a teacher to upload their own content does help to combat this issue.

Teachers and students will love using curriculet. Students love working at their own pace while reading. The notes and video that pop up are great to readers.

As a tool for annotating and enhancing reading materials for students, Curriculet is second to none. The ability to add not only text annotations but questions, images, and video make Curriculet unique. I especially love that students can add their own annotations as they read and respond to the text. This tool would be a fantastic addition to any literature classroom, and for teaching students to read analytically in the content areas as well!

Curriculet lets teachers create a class and invite students to join. Then users search through public domain books. Teachers also have the option of pasting a URL or uploading a document of their own content. The URL cleaner than the PDF I uploaded, but both took awhile to upload and convert into a format useable by Curriculet. Once the reading has been selected, the document can be brought to life with media resources, annotations to explain the text, and word definitions. Teachers can incorporate checks for understanding either with a single question or a quiz in line with the text. Teachers can add a Common Core tag from the drop down menu with each question.

Some definite strengths of this product are that it allows for open-ended grading and interactive annotations in reading mode. The program includes image-rich assessments and data reports for teachers that show student time on task, the homework they've completed and gives class averages too. The interface reminds me of Google Drive - very clean-looking. I like the fact that the program has ready-to-use Curriculet units, which you can use or edit to add your own content to it too. You can also create your own, original Curriculet for your students to use. One of the negatives is that so far, the company only has classic novels (although they have a good amount of non-fiction), so if an English teacher is interested in using this, the product does not contain any young adult literature, or common novels taught in grades 4-8. It has more high school-level novels. Overall this is one of the best ereader, curriculum-based products I've seen. I would use it in my own classroom, but there is just not enough middle school curriculum on it just yet.

Students have to enroll themselves. I had them do this as a whole class activity, but students coming later in the year, have to do it on their own. I would prefer adding students myself as a whole class. I think it is an excellent teaching tool, especially since I can modify the questions/annotations/quizzes that are in each article. It ensures students are meeting the ELA CC standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone). Teaching to these standards is often difficult in science, but this site integrates them very well. I would like to see more articles on the site. Currently the selection for science is extremely limited. Teachers can post their own articles, annotate them, create check for understanding questions and quizzes, but it would be useful if the site provided more finished Curriculets. Many novels at varied reading levels are on the site, which would make it useful for English teachers if one of the novels were part of their curriculum.