See Readicide for a powerful argument of how we as teachers, while well-intentioned, can “schoolify” reading and viewing and learning to the point that it’s unrecognizable to anyone anywhere on the planet outside of the classroom, and make students think they hate what they’re doing in the process.
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7 Tools to Improve Reading Comprehension - Learn2Earn Blog - 17 views
Atomic Reach - 20 views
Online Reading Activities | Read Theory - 57 views
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"The quickest, most intelligent way to improve K-12 reading comprehension. Read Theory adapts to student ability to provide the perfect reading passages and questions. Our program is completely free for an unlimited number of teacher and student users."
40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies - 105 views
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You can’t watch a video like you read a book; the modalities couldn’t be much different.
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Interesting article and graphic relating to how we can increase viewing comprehension in our classrooms.
ReadWorks.org | The Solution to Reading Comprehension | ReadWorks.org | The Solution to... - 68 views
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A free site full of leveled text along with lessons and comprehension activities.
Brand New Science Passages | ReadWorks.org | The Solution to Reading Comprehension - 84 views
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Great reading passages on science and other areas.
Actively Learn - 38 views
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This is amazing!! I couldn't wait to share it with teachers at our school. Thank you for sharing the link.
Reading Passages | ReadWorks.org - 99 views
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Reading passages that include a writing and comprehension componenet leveled by grade.
Rewordify.com | Understand what you read - 22 views
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Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, and helps them learn words in new ways. -
Decreases the reading levels of articles from various online publications.
On so-called 'reading strategies' - the utter mess that is the literature and advice to... - 88 views
Podcast: Mobile and Learning with Dr. Michael Truong - 18 views
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Host Eric Robertson's conversation with Michael Truong, Associate Director of UC Merced's Center for Research on Teaching Excellence looks at technology innovations at the UC system's newest campus as an indicator for what is happening nationally. After covering topics ranging from the role of Learning Management Systems to trends in student technology purchases, their conversation focuses on UC Merced's Mobile App Learning Lounge, a resource designed to help students and faculty explore the possibilities of teaching and learning using mobile applications. Truong argues that mobile tools are dramatically enhancing assessment, communication between students and faculty, collaboration activities, and even access to and time spent with learning materials. The conversation concludes with a fascinating discussion about the challenges of teaching in an age of technology driven distraction. Referencing thinkers like Michael Wesch, Sherry Terkle and Nicholas Carr, Robertson and Truong explore how faculty can help students develop critical thinking skills in a "search culture" by moving beyond consuming knowledge to curating and producing it.
Reading Comprehension - 120 views
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Great article on relationship of reading and spelling
About the Lessons & Units | ReadWorks.org - 5 views
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Aligns to the Common Core and State Standards. Complements Leading Reading Programs. Meets ELA Standards for All 50 States. Is Lexile Leveled.
ABCya! Word Clouds for Kids! - 12 views
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ABCya.com word clouds for kids! A word cloud is a graphical representation of word frequency. Type or paste text into the box below and press the arrow button to view the word cloud generated. The appearance of a word cloud can be altered using the graphical buttons above the cloud. It is also easy to save and/or print the cloud by simply pressing a button. -
These Word clouds are easy to use for vocabulary. No account needed. Can be saved as jpegs.
The Literacy Shed - A great new resource for Visual Text Literacy Teaching - 123 views
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The site is organised into 24 different 'sheds", each providing a selection of quality visual texts (mainly 3D animations) accompanied by very useful teaching notes (Note to Grammar Gurus/Spelling "Nazis" - ignore the occasional typo in the notes) outlining how you can use the clips in exploring themes, characterisation, narrative, plot, mood, use of audio, body language, inferences,deductions, predictions - the notes cover just about everything. It's equally useful for reading comprehension and writing development. The use of the resources also go beyond just Literacy. Many of the resources are also useful for Humanities subjects as well and Smith points these links out in detail. What I especially enjoy is the number of foreign animations that expose students particularly in USA and Australia, my home, to different cultural and creative perspectives beyond Hollywood story telling.
MyRead - Four Resources Guideposts - 3 views
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The guideposts are a useful assessment tool based on how individual guides integrate the Four Roles/Resources of the Reader. The guidepost indicators may be used to monitor student learning. However, use the guideposts flexibly. While the guideposts do cover each of the Four Roles/Resources of the Reader, teachers may choose to focus on one or two roles or fewer indicators for each role. Teachers may also find that there are other learning outcomes which they would like to focus on and which reflect the particular needs of their students.
MyRead - How - 5 views
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Middle Years Reading Comprehension strategies
