eBooks for INFOhio supporting the
3rd Grade Reading Guarantee
Where are we?
Big Thank You To:
Ohio Department of Education – funding
INFOhio eBook Committee
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Mary Nemeth – MEC – Committee Chair
Caroline Hines – Akron Public Schools
Mandy Simon – Bexley Public Library
Martha Shaw – Columbus School for Girls
Linda Swarlis – Columbus School for Girls
Karen Coy – HCCA
Phil Salasek – Jackson Local Schools
Chris Miller – MDECA provider
Carrie Waibel – OHIONET
Gayle Geitgey – INFOhio
Terri Shutt – INFOhio
Theresa Fredericka – INFOhio
The Solution for
Achieving
And Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee
Today’s students are being asked to read more informational text than ever before. In the past,
elementary school students have been required to read more fiction than nonfiction. To meet the
Common Core State Standards, half of the reading materials should be nonfiction even at the
youngest grades. These informational texts should offer meaningful curriculum knowledge to students.
Educators and librarians are asked to provide “texts that build knowledge coherently within and across
grades.
The “Flix” Advantage
• BookFlix enables students and teachers to meet
the Ohio Learning Standards.
• Supports the Ohio Third Grade Reading
Guarantee.
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Phonics
Phonemic awareness
Reading fluency
Comprehension
Vocabulary
The “Flix” Advantage
• BookFlix introduces young learners to nonfiction
by pairing with popular fiction.
• Learning happens and is engaging.
• Students, teachers and schools win.
BookFlix- What is it?
•Interactive literacy
•Online
•Pairing of fiction and nonfiction
• The best content:
–Weston Woods
–Scholastic
–Children’s Press
•Accessible 24/7
•Device agnostic end of
September 2013
•Goal is to build a love of reading
in each child
BookFlix
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110 fiction and nonfiction pairs
Interactive e-books
Video
Introduce content-area learning
Spanish Language versions of 31
pairs
Read-Along option
Interactive educational games
Narrated definitions and text-build
vocabulary
Author biographies
Safe, age-appropriate websites
Educator resources--lesson plans,
correlations, and more
BookFlix
• Consists of a library of fiction/nonfiction pairs
• Presented in an engaging, fun online format that
will have kids asking to use it again and again
BookFlix and Ohio Learning Standards
Using BookFlix, students can achieve key goals of the Common Core ELA Standards:
•Read and comprehend literature and informational text
•Respond to texts that are read aloud
•Access multiple text types
•Use technology and digital media strategically and capably
Here are just some of the ways that BookFlix aligns to Common Core ELA Reading
Anchor Standards
•After reading activities(included in every lesson plan) – Standards 1,2,3
•Paired-text activities and Fact and Fiction games help students understand literacy
texts and information texts – Standards 3-4
•Sequencing games call for students to place the events of the stories – Standard 7
•Video storybooks have optional read-along feature that provides scaffolding for
reading and comprehending literature – Standard 10
BookFlix-For the Student
• Watch the Story
• Read the Book
• Puzzlers
– Games
• Meet the Author
• Explore the Web
Watch the story
• Weston Woods video of the fiction
book.
• Read along with the video.
• 105 stories.
Read the Book
• Read the Non-Fiction title. Can be
read to the student or student can
read the text without help.
• 105 non-fiction books paired with the
fiction books.
Puzzler for each book
• Puzzlers to help students recall and
understand the story.
Meet the Author
• Short Biographies of the authors of the
books.
Explore the Web
• Web Links to help student further
explore the topic.
BookFlix- For the Educator
• Lesson Plans
• Meet the Author
• Curriculum Correlations
– State-Ohio
– National
– Common Core
• Downloadable Resources
– Letters to parents and
teachers
– Custom Bookmarks
– Poster
– Tutorial
Lesson Plans for each book
• Located on the book page.
Curriculum Correlations
Be sure to
scroll up to
switch to
Common
Core ELA
standards
Curriculum Correlations
Use the
dropdown to
explore other
Ohio Learning
Standards
correlations
for each book.
Resources for Teachers
• Sorts for Curricular connections, Lexile,
subject, etc.
Search BookFLIX in the
Title Browse tab
Sort the pairs in Title Browse Tab
Downloadable Resources
• Letters for parents, patrons, teachers
• Customizable book marks.
• Posters
The BookFlix Advantage
• Created and designed
especially for PreK-Grade 3
• Read-Aloud feature supports
early literacy
• Small group rotations or
learning centers
• Supports literacy development
• Research shows the benefits of
a balance of fiction and
nonfiction as outlined in Ohio
Learning Standards and
Common Core ELA
• Accessible 24/7