Overview of useful features for teachers using Google Docs in the classroom. Greatest instructional advantages: easy collaboration, easy feedback options either as voice or written comments, and track changes.
Not literacy specifically. But seems to be application of images and conversations to connect to background knowledge. Same tech might be useful for reading for the same reason.
Taylor, a young girl who struggles with reading, engaged in repeated reading until she could read this text aloud fluently. Her tutor helped her record it and upload it to Youtube. Strong motivation for the research-supported but often boring repeated reading of text.
Descriptions and links to lots of useful tools for teachers (especially those in bring your own device (BYOD) schools where resources have been ripped from the education system to balance budgets or cut taxes.
Read aloud on the "Between the Lions" tv show. Animation, effective read-aloud, text highlighted by phrase to assist beginning readers in following along. Nicely done.
Jim Trelease is well-known journalist and author of "The Read-Aloud Handbook." His website links to many useful resources for teachers, parents, and other readers.
Absolutely fabulous reading of Chris Raschka's "Charlie Parker Played Be Bop." Text visible throughout the reading. Great for independent (or teaching) experience to connect the words in the text to the sounds of Bebop jazz.
Report on Karin James's very interesting brain studies of the effects of handwriting experience on learning. Have to think about what this might mean for kids who have severe physical impairments.
Gallaudet's Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) storybooks in app form. Stories are told in ASL and English. Built on bilingual learning principles.
Read aloud by two children (clearly actors, but still cute). Text clearly visible. Excellent digital text experience for developing readers. Fun for others.