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Quality Television Shows that Focus on Early Literacy - 0 views

www.getreadytoread.org/...s-that-focus-on-early-literacy literacy television
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  • watching developmentally appropriate programming with your children can have many positive benefits (bonding between caregiver and child, the introduction of new vocabulary words, exploring new places together, etc.).
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http://www.learningpt.org/pdfs/literacy/disability.pdf - 1 views

www.learningpt.org/...disability.pdf literacy skills education technology
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    Starting with page 8, this article sites specific programs used on the computer and television that aides children with disabilities in improving their literacy skills.
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http://escalate.ac.uk/downloads/8298.pdf - 1 views

escalate.ac.uk/8298.pdf Literacy technology texting
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    Improved Literacy with Texting
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Can social networking boost literacy skills? - 1 views

www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/The Learning Team/Volume-14/Number-1/Pages/Can-social-networking-boost-literacy-skills.aspx social networking literacy
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  • The National Literacy Trust found that social networking sites and blogs help students to develop more positive attitudes toward writing and to become more confident in their writing abilities.
  • According to one of the studies, 49 per cent of young people believe that writing is “boring.” However, students who use technology-based texts such as blogs have more positive attitudes toward writing.
  • The study also showed that students who write blogs or maintain a profile on a social networking site tend to be more confident about their writing ability. More than 60 per cent of students who blog and 56 per cent of students who have a profile on a social networking site claim to be “good” or “very good” writers, compared with only 47 per cent of those who don’t use online formats.
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  • Students who are active online are significantly more likely to keep a journal or write short stories, letters or song lyrics than those without a social networking presence.
  • Of the five kinds of writing that students engaged in most regularly, four were technology based: 82 per cent of students sent text messages (77 per cent of these messages were notes, answers to questions asked in class or remarks about homework assignments), 73 per cent used instant messaging, 67 per cent sent e-mails and 63 per cent wrote on social networking sites.
  • Dr. Spencer Jordan, a creative writing teacher in the School of Education at the University of Wales, notes that web ­technologies encourage young people to write confidently about things they enjoy.
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    Social Networking and Literacy Skills
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