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Matt Renwick

Educational Leadership:Strong Readers All:E-Readers: Powering Up for Engagement - 33 views

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ASCD ebooks engagement

shared by Matt Renwick on 06 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • E-readers have tremendous potential to entice reluctant readers to read more. A study that we recently conducted among low-reading-ability middle school students demonstrated that potential. Students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades became more engaged and motivated during their scheduled silent sustained reading periods when they were given the opportunity to use e-readers.
  • Responding to text is one way that students establish comprehension and improve their skill in understanding, predicting, and critically analyzing what they read. Larson (2009, 2010) observed students spontaneously using the highlight feature of the Kindle called "My Clippings" to leave personal notes and questions about what they were reading.
Marc Patton

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Teacher_Resources Teaching_Ideas Mathematics Language_Arts

shared by Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    Math, Reading Comprehension, Themes, Lesson Plans, and Printable Worksheets
Mr. Eason

Susan Linn: About That App Gap: Children, Technology and the Digital Divide - 53 views

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technology digital divide children

shared by Mr. Eason on 19 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • children from low-income families spend more time handling technology -- across platforms -- than their wealthier counterparts, and across class, kids mainly use their "handling skills" for entertainment. They play games, watch videos, and visit social networking sites.
  • there's scant evidence that anyone but the companies who make, sell, and advertise on these new technologies benefit from the time young children spend with them, there's plenty of reason to be worried about it.
  • studies showing that the bells and whistles of electronic books actually detract from reading comprehension.
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  • I'm worried that screen-based reading, with omnipresent hyperlinks, interferes with comprehension and memory, and that heavy Internet use appears to encourage distractedness and discourage deep thinking, empathy, and emotion.
  • fast-paced video games trigger dopamine squirts in our brains -- kind of like cocaine.
  • here's what worries me most: We're turning to the companies that profit from these technologies to help parents manage their kids' relationship with screens. While it's great that the Federal Communications Commission is launching a campaign to promote digital literacy, the fact that companies like Best Buy and Microsoft are funding it make it unlikely that weaning kids from their products will be a priority.
  • the skills they will always need to thrive -- deep thinking, the ability to differentiate fact from hype, creativity, self-regulation, empathy, and self-reflection -- aren't learned in front of screens. They are learned through face-to-face communication, hands-on exploration of the world, opportunities for thoughtful reflection, and dreams.
anonymous

Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels : NPR - 3 views

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novels teen fiction

shared by anonymous on 08 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Aug 12
     
    A comprehensive list for us to use in our classrooms or for the students to use when looking for books to read!  Book Report List???
Roland O'Daniel

MSP:MiddleSchoolPortal/Teaching With Trade Books - NSDLWiki - 41 views

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shared by Roland O'Daniel on 09 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Roland O'Daniel on 09 Sep 10
     
    ...benefits of using trade books is increasing student engagement. High quality trade books are written as to spark interest and create a desire to read. Many contain colorful, interesting illustrations, photographs, and diagrams, all of which draw students into the text and improve comprehension.
krossum

developing first-grade reading fluency through peer mediation - ProQuest - 14 views

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shared by krossum on 26 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • indings suggest that peer-mediated, repeated reading promoted both reading fluency and reading comprehension.
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      krossum on 26 Jun 16
       
      Findings
Matt Renwick

Report: Students read way below level that prepares them for college, careers - CSMonit... - 30 views

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report students level way college fiction nonfiction

shared by Matt Renwick on 19 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • cornerstone of reading comprehension is vocabulary
  • words that need to be learned are encountered in literature
  • Students' reading amount peaks in sixth grade
Doug Brunner

Reading Comprehension & Language Arts Teaching Strategies for Kids | Reading Rockets - 2 views

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reading literacy education teaching languagearts elementary

shared by Doug Brunner on 29 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    Teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle
SHARON DRESSEL

Coh-Metrix - 30 views

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readability textselection individualized matrix formula reading Coh-Metrix textanalysis

shared by SHARON DRESSEL on 01 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • five major factors that account for most of the variance in texts across grade levels and text categories: word concreteness, syntactic simplicity, referential cohesion, causal cohesion, and narrativity
  • Florence Dujardin on 01 Jul 11
     
    Computer analyses of text characteristics are often used by reading teachers, researchers, and policy makers when selecting texts for students. The authors of this article identify components of language, discourse, and cognition that underlie traditional automated metrics of text difficulty and their new Coh-Metrix system. Coh-Metrix analyzes texts on multiple measures of language and discourse that are aligned with multilevel theoretical frameworks of comprehension. The authors discuss five major factors that account for most of the variance in texts across grade levels and text categories: word concreteness, syntactic simplicity, referential cohesion, causal cohesion, and narrativity. They consider the importance of both quantitative and qualitative characteristics of texts for assigning the right text to the right student at the right time.
  • SHARON DRESSEL on 02 Jul 11
     
    How do we go about selecting texts for individualized reading assistance? This sounds like a new way.
Roland Gesthuizen

What measures the best teacher? More than scores, study shows - 1450 WHTC Holland's Hom... - 138 views

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testing evaluation performance teaching education

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • researchers found they could pick out the best teachers in a school and even predict roughly how much their students would learn if they rated the educators through a formula that put equal weight on student input, test scores and detailed classroom observations by principals and peers
  • Judging teachers primarily by student performance on state tests, for instance, turned out to be highly unreliable, with little consistency from year to year. Judging them chiefly by a principal's observations failed to identify those teachers who could be counted on to boost student proficiency on state math and reading tests.
  • This should be a very big red flag to all those policy makers who think they can have test-based accountability be half or more of a teacher's evaluation
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Jan 13
     
    "(Reuters) - Effective teachers can be identified by observing them at work, measuring their students' progress on standardized tests - and asking those students directly what goes on in the classroom, according to a comprehensive study released Tuesday."
bruce mcbrien

Scholastic Study Jams - Elementary School - 94 views

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Elementary math reading science videos resources

shared by bruce mcbrien on 05 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Aug 11
     
    A great site with activities, quizzes, videos and even karaoke about every area of the science curriculum. Very useful when introducing new topics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
  • bruce mcbrien on 21 Jan 14
     
    This is a resource-rich site, with a math, language and comprehensive science content. Slideshows, videos and comprehension quizzes have made this a site I will use often.
Kelly Boushell

About the Lessons & Units | ReadWorks.org - 5 views

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reading comprehension resources

shared by Kelly Boushell on 15 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Kelly Boushell on 15 Jan 13
     
    Aligns to the Common Core and State Standards. Complements Leading Reading Programs. Meets ELA Standards for All 50 States. Is Lexile Leveled.
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