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Lisa Raymond

Reading Rockets: Reading for Meaning - 0 views

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    This article suggests having students listen to stories and visualize them as an effective comprehension strategy. Visualization helps students create a personal picture that is connected to their prior knowledge, which helps them remember the story.
Michelle Fairley

5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency - 1 views

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    This Scholastic article discusses how to increase students fluency; an important part of teaching reading.
Lisa Raymond

Turning Toys into Tools - 0 views

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    This article discusses an increase in reading comprehension in literacy as well as other subject areas. Students are able to listen to a fluent reader, re-read easily, increase vocabulary development, and increase their motivation for reading.
Lisa Raymond

Audio stories for fun and comprehension - 0 views

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    A mom shares a story of her 4 and 7 year olds listening to Magic Tree House stories and discusses their excitement and understanding, as well as their enjoyment of listening to the stories repeatedly and building their literacy skills.
Lisa Raymond

Ipods and audio books to encourage reading - 0 views

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    One teacher shares her story through a youtube video. She shares that her students love checking out audio books or listening to ipod recordings and believes that it helps keep kids reading
Lisa Raymond

Ipods for fluency and comprehension - 0 views

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    This article suggests having students record themselves reading for two reasons- 1) for the teacher to later listen to and record fluency data 2) so the student can later listen to the recording and self-monitor their own oral reading
Lisa Raymond

Ipod celebration page - 0 views

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    This page has links to projects teachers have done with their students using ipods. It shares a wide variety of ways ipods can be used to increase learning.
Colin Gallagher

School gets student iPods - 0 views

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    Newspaper article on a school which gave every student an iPod and every teacher an iPad.
Colin Gallagher

Best Education iPad and iPhone App Lists | Appolicious ™ iPad and iPhone App ... - 0 views

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    User created list of iPod and iPad apps. Lots of good stuff here.
Colin Gallagher

iPod Touch & iPad Resources - 1 views

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    A wide variety of resources dealing with administration of Ipods to apps reviews. Relevant from K to 12.
Colin Gallagher

Epic Challenge - 0 views

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    Awesome examples of the amazing potential of iPods/iPads as productivity tools.
Colin Gallagher

Ipod Apps list for Education - 0 views

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    A very nice graphically laid out list of apps for the iPod in education
Michelle Fairley

Apple Apps - 2 views

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    This app has stories for K-4th grade, and as the child reads through the story the app times them. The idea is that, the shorter the time that is spent on reading a particular selection, the less time that is spent focusing on decoding thus increasing fluency.
Andrell Williams

PBS KIDS Island - 0 views

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    This is an additional resource to pbs kids. This is mainly for parents and teachers, which is still useful because parents can work with their children at home with their reading
Andrell Williams

Reading a -z - 0 views

shared by Andrell Williams on 18 Nov 10 - Cached
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    This is another great webste that focuses on literacy with elementary children
Michelle Fairley

iPhone audio recording apps in the App Store - 2 views

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    will add soon
Michelle Fairley

iPods greatly increase reading fluency - 0 views

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    This is a link for an article that was published in the Examiner on June 9th, 2010. It supports the use of iPods in the classroom and reports increases in reading speeds, and shows some of the effectiveness of their uses.
Michelle Fairley

Reading Fluency & iPods:Teaching with Technology - 0 views

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    Short video on the uses of Audio Books on iPods. Suggests: ipodsinschool.com
Colin Gallagher

Slide to Learn: Beginners guide to the iPod touch, iPhone and iSlate in Education - 0 views

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    Guide to mobile learning with the iPod/iPad
Michelle Fairley

Tumble Talking Books - 0 views

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    Tumble Talking Books is an online audio library. This is mostly for public libraries, but is could be a good resource for school libraries. This site allows downloading and streaming. This would be good for teen and adult readers, as well as, ESL students.
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