How to Use These Materials

The following video gives you an overview of these materials.

Read the information below for more details.

You will see 2 types of information in this Canvas Shell.

TEMPLATES: These are quizzes you can copy directly into your course to edit and customize.
- The information within the templates will be broken into sections:
  - Section with a gray header are notes for instructors. These should be deleted before giving students access to the activity.
  - Sections with a red header are meant for students.
RESOURCES: These pages will include supplemental information for you to use and reference as you set up your reader lessons.

The templates are quizzes for pre-reading, reading response, and post-reading activities. These quizzes contain a series of questions that can be used in multiple ways depending on your context and preference. While the questions are set up to be used as a Canvas quiz, they questions can also be used to create:

a Canvas discussion
a live class discussion in person or in Zoom. They can be copied and pasted into a PowerPoint, Word, or Google Doc.

A few notes to help you customize:

You will see a grey section at the top of the front page of the template with instructions. Delete these notes before publishing the quiz.
Once you copy a quiz, keep the questions you'd like to use, delete those you don't want, and edit as appropriate.
You will see yellow highlights of areas in quizzes where you need to customize or add content.
Quiz questions have been given '0' points. Remember to add point values to will work with your course assignments.

The 1st video below will show you how to copy a quiz template from this Canvas shell into your own Canvas course using the Copy To function.

BUT BE CAREFUL. A quiz can only be copied ONE TIME this way into a course. If the same quiz is copied more than one time into a course, the newest copied quiz will overwrite any previous copies. The 2nd video below shows you how an alternate way of inserting a quiz using a QTI file that will allow you to copy it multiple times. QTI files are included in this shell for the weekly reading and pre-reading quizzes so you can use these quizzes each week if you want.

HOW TO COPY A QUIZ TEMPLATE ONE TIME INTO YOUR CANVAS SHELL USING COPY TO:

HOW TO COPY A QUIZ TEMPLATE MULTIPLE TIME INTO YOUR CANVAS SHELL USING A QTI FILE:

“OER Support Resources for ELA Readers” by Dawn Allen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.