Graphic Organizer Foldable

Literacy Network and Project ReimaginED (ISTE) highlights a 3-D graphic organizer Foldables. 

Foldables are used in classrooms to organize information in all subjects.

Creating visuals and presenting information through making 3-D paper models help students not only to retain data and practice writing skills but also to express themselves in a creative way.


Even though these visual displays are hand made, they can also enhance digital skills.
When students decorate their foldables with images taken from the Internet, teachers explain them how to choose Google Search Tools - Usage Rights: noncommercial reuse. Students also practice to provide credits to image creators.

Foldables can be organized by topics, digitized and stored for future references and student digital portfolios.

Visit a Foldable pile in Pinterest that is yet another excellent way to manage information.

Informational Text as a teaching tool.

In the dynamic world we live in, content and technology exponentially grow and become more and more complex. To prepare our students to effectively function in the world and be efficient global citizens, educators re-evaluate their teaching instructions and come up with new educational strategies. 

Daily reading of current events and informational texts develop not only student language skills but prepare them to be informed, think critically, solve real world problems, and be able to communicate their ideas to others. In other words, students are learning to become active members of society.

Resources:

There are a great number of web sites where informational texts can be found. Some of them are pinned on a Pinterest Nonfiction Reading board. 

Check a Pinterest collection of News Sites 
and News Sites in Spanish.