Flocabulary in the Classroom

I cannot believe that I had never heard of this website until the company reached out to me and asked me to check them out. I am a huge advocate for promoting tools and resources in the classroom that are authentic, rigorous, and meaningful to my students and to me so when I decided to give Flocabulary a try, I can promise you that I was NOT disappointed. There is so much about the website and the resources that you can find on it that are top notch and my favorite part is that Flocabulary offers what our students are interested in—music, lyrics, and visuals on content that they are learning about in the classroom.

BOOM! That is gold!

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Because I teach ELA and Social Studies, those are the two areas that we are using the most. However, now that we are getting the hang of the website and the students are falling in love with the videos, we have been using a lot of the other resources on the site. Here are a few of the categories we use and how–

Social Studies Videos—We start our units then introduce the AMAZING videos after a few days inout our unit. We watch the video then we print out the fill-in-the-blank lyrics. The students work in small groups to re-watch the video on iPads and fill in the lyrics. We watch the video one more time and discuss what the lyrics mean and then the lyrics are stored in their interactive notebooks. It has been so impressive to watch the students really grasp and retain information on historical events just by incorporating the Flocabulary raps into our classroom curriculum.

ELA Videos—We have been working on crafting our five paragraph essays. Flocabulary has a fabulous rap on how to write an essay. The examples, sports references, and overall “flow” of the video has been a game changer for my kiddos.

Vocabulary— There is a lot of research out there about the importance of growing and nurturing vocabulary in our learners. Flocabulary has some phenomenal, higher order videos that help expose students to vocab and meanings. We are using these in our RTI blocks, and the kiddos ask for them each week. I always have a proud teacher moment when I hear a student using the vocabulary from the videos in daily conversations or writing.

Over 700 videos…that speaks for itself.

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