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What is Voki? | Voki Classroom Essentials | **Teaching and Learning with Voki**

=Integrating Vokis in the Literacy Block=
 * ==Sample Vokis==
 * Madyson (6th grader) used a free writing experience to create a Voki persona emphasizing voice and a formal tone.
 * Jeffery (6th grader) also used a free writing experience to create his own Voki persona.
 * Octavious (3rd grader) completed a Thanksgiving paragraph writing assignment using Voki. Note his word choice and integration of the background with his ideas.

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 * ==Integrating Voki in the Reading / Literacy Block==
 * Summarizing content
 * Using vocabulary in context
 * Practicing and Reinforcing Author's Purpose
 * Brief character analysis after reading
 * Online project presentations. Dr. Salemi's 5th grade class uses Voki to present/summarize individual research completed on a famous historical figure. Students research a historical figure, write a biographical report about their figure, and create a Voki that represents the figure. The Voki allowed students to practice selecting essential information while also creating an avatar that appropriately depicted the figure.


 * ===Writing===
 * Experimenting with Voice using different backgrounds and avatars
 * Reinforcing Word Choice or Spelling
 * Dr. Salemi's 5th grade students also created many Voki's to review essential mechanical and grammar skills. Any written skill can be reinforced in an engaging way through Voki. Sentence structure, sentence variety, comma usage, and other challenging written skills are appropriate to reinforce through Vokis. [|Voki Blog]provides lesson plan ideas to assist teachers with lesson plans using Voki.
 * Voki provides students practice with editing and hearing their own writing. Hearing their own writing helps students with revision - often an extremely difficult skill for students to employ in their own writing.