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in title, tags, annotations or url24 Educational iPad Apps for Kids in Reading & Writing « Imagination Soup | Fun Learning and Play Activities for Kids - 172 views
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"As I started a go-to list of the best educational iPad apps for kids, the list got so long, I split up my posts into categories. So, today we'll start with my favorite iPad apps for literacy - reading and writing for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-age kids. Also, I've included special needs iPad app resources at the end of this post."
The Most Important Lesson Schools Can Teach Kids About Reading: It's Fun - Jeffrey Wilhelm & Michael Smith - The Atlantic - 42 views
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pleasure is not incidental to reading—it’s essential
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experience the pleasure of entering a story world
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The pleasure of play is what readers experience when they become lost in a book
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Educational Leadership:Reading: The Core Skill:The Challenge of Challenging Text - 131 views
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The new standards instead propose that teachers move students purposefully through increasingly complex text to build skill and stamina.
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higher-order thinking in reading depends heavily on knowledge of word meanings.
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Students' ability to comprehend a piece of text depends on the number of unfamiliar domain-specific words and new general academic terms they encounter.
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Reading to therapy dogs improves literacy attitudes in second-grade students - 8 views
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"Second-grade students who read aloud to dogs in an after-school program demonstrated improved attitudes about reading, according to researchers at Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction at Tufts University. Their research appears online in advance of print in the Early Childhood Education Journal. Reading skills are often associated with improved academic performance and positive attitudes about school in children. Researchers wanted to learn if animal-assisted intervention in the form of reading aloud to dogs in a classroom setting could contribute to improved skills and attitudes."
Drop Everything and Blog « doug - off the record - 26 views
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Both schools have been supporters of the "Drop Everything and Read" concept. Observations over time have been that it has become a relatively passive activity - a good one - but still in need of something. So, they're going to experiment with a concept that they're calling "Drop Everything and Blog". The logic is one of scaffolding the concept. You can't really blog unless you have something to blog about. So, the initial attempt will be to have students and teachers blog about favourite books that they've read. Once blogged, classmates will be encouraged to read the original post and comment on it.
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Bring your "drop everything and read" literacy sessions up a notch -- how about "stop everything and blog". My personal suggestion with this -- use Google Documents and allow the option of simultaneous collaboration.
What are the 4 R's Essential to 21st Century Learning? | HASTAC - 79 views
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Interestingly, unlike math, which can often be difficult to teach in all of its abstraction, algorithms do stuff. Algorithms are operational. You show kids how to use a program like Scratch or Hackasaurus and, very soon, they can actually manipulate, create, and do, in their very own and special way.
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the beauty of teaching even the youngest kids algorithms and algorithmic or procedural thinking is that it gives them the same tool of agency and production that writing and even reading gave to industrial age learners who, for the first time in history, had access to cheap books and other forms of print.
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Cathy Davidson discusses the need for a fourth "R" -pertaining to "algoRithim" - It is important, she argues, because, "in the 21st century, we need [an]...expanded push towards the literacy that defines our era, computational literacy. Algorithms are as basic to the way the 21st century digital age works as reading, writing, and arithmetic were to the late 18th century Industrial era."
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"The classic "3 R's" of learning are, of course, Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic. For the 21st century, we need to add a fourth R--and it will help inspire the other three: Algorithm. "
The Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative - Lesley University - 7 views
5 Sites With High-Quality Informational Text | Literacy in the Digital Age - 61 views
Unite for Literacy library - 25 views
echo - 2 views
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Problem-Solution [Insert optional driving question] After researching/reading/viewing ________ (informational texts) on ________ (content), write/ create ________ (authentic product) that identifies a problem ________ (content) and argues for a solution. Support your position with evidence from your research. L2 Be sure to examine competing views. L3 Give examples from past or current events or issues to illustrate and clarify your position.
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After researching genetically modified foods, write an editorial that argues your position on the use of genetic engineering in food production. Support your position with evidence from your research. Be sure to acknowledge competing views. Give examples from past or current events or issues to illustrate, clarify, and support your position.
Thought Control. - 1 views
Activity 4: Writing comments - What you need to know | Edublogs Teacher Challenges - 88 views
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Teaching quality commenting skills
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If commenting skills are not taught and constantly reinforced, students will limit their comments to things like “I like your blog!” or “2KM is cool!”. While enthusiasm is high with these sorts of comments, students are not developing their literacy skills or having meaningful interactions with other members of the blogging community. Conversations in the comment section of a blog are such rich and meaningful learning experiences for students. Conversations begin with high quality comments.
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Check out improvements in student literacy skills through commenting here.
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F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 99 views
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Should teachers be approaching reading literacy differently because of these findings?
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Absolutely not. This is based on reading on websites and if you look at the "heatmaps" of eye tracking people focus on where the content is dense. Of course people read across the top of a webpage first, that is where the heading and introduction are. Then they move down the side, where the menus are in general. People even focused on the ads to the right. This is more a commentary on modern website design than anything to do with reading.
Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? - 0 views
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"As students spend more time with visual media and less time with print, evaluation methods that include visual media will give a better picture of what they actually know
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reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
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Diigo featured prominently in my Digital Literacy Toolbox - 13 views
As part of my sabbatical project in which I explored the topic of "reading in the digital age," I looked at web tools that are useful in helping students (particularly college students) with their ...
#WhyNCTE15: Because we all need to know literacy | Reading By Example - 40 views
Pupils Writing Memoir : A Great Literacy Topic by @Lit4Pleasure - 14 views
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"As you may have read, this half term we focused on the teaching of memoir. In our first week we discussed the genre using our genre-booklets and this created a buzz for the rest of the project. Focusing on the genre and why people write memoir allowed the generating of ideas to happen fairly quickly."
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