Qlovi offers a lesson plan template and collates trackable mastery data for online content.

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Community Review for Qlovi

Eric W.
Eric W.
West Ottawa High School Campus
Holland MI, US
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I like the structure provided by the Qlovi lesson plan template -- it even allows teachers to put an idea of the lesson's pacing into the plan.

I like how the lesson can be (easily) linked to Common Core State Standards. Each stage in the lesson can also be connected to a standard. It's really easy to add the standards to the lesson, too.

I really like the way the students' mastery can be tracked and used to provide more feedback to the students and to help the teacher identify students who need more attention and where that attention should be directed.

I would like to see more variety in the readings available on the site. I'd also like to see a bit more on the upper end of the spectrum, but I'm a high school teacher and the site is more directed toward the middle grades.

How I Use It

Qlovi allows teachers one more site for class-building. Teachers can create lessons (or peruse pre-made lessons) to practice ELA skills. It offers a basic (somewhat customizable) lesson plan template with steps like warm-up, whole class practice, independent study, formative assessment, and exit ticket. These lesson plan steps can be scheduled and assigned to students who enroll in the class.

The site offers a small collection of reading materials that can be sorted by topic or Lexile score. Many of these readings are free. Some have a fee. These readings can be assigned to the class or read together. Some come with comprehension level class. These can be assigned as quizzes.

Teachers can also assign writing assessments. Two different rubrics are included for scoring of the writing. I thought this was pretty cool. There are lessons I often teach that can be assigned digitally using Qlovi.

But wait, there's more. After I practiced creating and assigning a lesson, I noticed that Qlovi also collects the data from the assignments. Students' levels of mastery can be viewed by assessment and also by Common Core State Standard. Students who need more practice or more instruction can identified and helped.

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Ashley K.
Ashley K. STEM Project Manager Nashville, TN
July 20, 2014

Create a reading lesson plan in one place using classics and limited non-fiction texts

I thought that this was a worthwhile product to try, especially if your class is all reading the same book or novel. Qlovi is limited in free books, and is building their “paid” library. For instance, doing a search for reading materials between 400 and 1600 Lexile levels, the program pulled 46 free books, and many of them were on the higher side. For students who struggle with reading harder texts, this might not be a great independent tool. Teachers are given 50 tokens to pay for book usage (it costs 1 token per book shared with students, so for a class of 24, you would be paying 24 tokens). Books also expire from your account after several weeks. I would also be interested to see how the nonfiction library grows in the coming months. Currently, there are limited titles with a rather small span of interest.
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Stephanie T.
Stephanie T. Franklin, MI
July 14, 2014

Promote student literacy while matching individual needs

I really enjoyed using Qlovi and would suggest it to teachers who want to include an eReader and writing program in their classroom. I loved the ability to differentiate my lessons for individual learners and enjoyed how I could view how long students worked on their reading. It was also beneficial to see what annotations they made as they read. Lastly, ready-made lessons that are already aligned to Common Core Standards are at one’s fingertips and can easily be added to your digital classroom as an assignment. A few things that need improvement are that Qlovi allows you to purchase books with tokens (you are given 2 at the start of your sign-up). You may use the ones they have for free, but these are mainly books that are non-fiction. The lack of fiction, particularly young adult fiction was a major drawback for me as an English teacher. Also, there need to be more search options to look for books, as you simply must scroll through pages upon pages of books in order to find one you’d like to teach with.
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Lisa B.
Lisa B. Hershey Middle School Hershey, PA
July 13, 2014

Qlovi allows creation of an entire online reading lesson

Each lesson you create has multiple parts to ensure that you are using a variety of teaching strategies to teach the topic. Options of elements you could include in the lesson were warm up, reading, quiz, essay, and exit ticket. The Warm Up and Exit Ticket were in the style of a traditional quiz question: multiple choice, short answer, fill in the blank, or true/false. You include a learning objective with the title of the lesson. There was a place for a standard, but it was not a field you could edit yourself. There did not appear to be a way to differentiate the lessons for specific groups of students. Creating an account on the website is easy, the time consuming part would be creating the lessons. There is a simple help menu available for teachers trying to navigate the website. However, the editing is not practical, so I’m not sure how much it could be customized. I wanted to include checks of understanding or side notes in the context of the book, but the only thing I could figure out how to add was a Frayer Model. I needed a resource that would allow more student interaction with the text through pictures, maps, questions, definitions, and additional web links.
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