Whizzimo allows users to create custom courses and workbooks for your students. Making your own content can be useful if your student needs extra reinforcement on a particular concept or skill. You can also create teaching material for sight words, including flashcards, wordcards and more!
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Creating supplemental content for your Barton student
Let's say, for example, your student Sarah is having trouble with words that have "sp", "th, and "f". You can make a workbook with words that include those topics for your students to get more exposure. Follow the steps below to create your content using courses and workbooks.
Creating a course and adding words
Choose Add a Course in the sidebar. A course is the holding space for your words.
Give it a name, we will call our course Sarah's Blends. Once you've made your course, you are ready to add words.
Adding Words
There are two main ways to add workbooks in Whizzimo:
Create a workbook from scratch: Add your own custom word lists if you already know the words you want. Just type them in!
Create a workbook from the database: Let the system generate words based on your criteria. This is great if you don't know enough words that cover the topic you need.
Create from scratch
Follow these steps to create a custom workbook with your own wordlist:
Go to the course where the words should be added, and select Add a Workbook.
Choose Create from Scratch from the dropdown list.
Enter a name for your workbook and select Continue.
Type your words into the Exact Words filter card, separating each word with a comma.
Click Sight if your workbook includes sight words.
Click Nonsense if your workbook includes nonsense words.
Once you've added your words, select Find Words at the bottom.
Review your words in the word list on the right side.
If everything looks good, select Save and Close in the upper right corner.
Create from Whizzimo's database
Use these steps to generate a workbook using Whizzimo's database:
Go to the course where the workbook should be added.
Select Add a Workbook.
Choose Create from Whizzimo's Database from the dropdown list.
Enter a name for your workbook and select Continue.
Use the filters to generate the words you want by selecting Add a Filter at the bottom.
Click Sight if your workbook includes sight words.
Click Nonsense if your workbook includes nonsense words.
When ready, select Find Words at the bottom.
Review your words in the word list on the right side.
If everything looks good, select Save and Close in the upper right corner.
Start working with your words
Now that you have your words, start using Whizzimo's activities! Below is an overview of some of the activities. You may recognize these from when you teach Barton lessons, but this time it's with your content and will look a little different!
Click Begin on a workbook to get started
Tileboard
The Tileboard is a fully customizable digital letter tile board that stay organized and never get lost. Use the Tileboard when you want to use all the tiles in your curriculum.
Wordcards
Wordcards are moveable cards that can be arranged as needed. You can even use these to play games!
Flashcards
Flashcards are a dynamic way to display content, one at a time on the screen. You can show the whole word, syllable breakdown, onset/rime, and tile view.
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