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Different students have different ways of learning, and this is absolutely true for literacy. Jules Daulby, whose wheelhouse includes SEN and English teaching, discusses how a certain amount of pupils are best learning with their ears... 
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An English and Media Studies teachers looks at iPads and how they may prove to be a "pivotal tool for effective and engaging group teaching and learning, it has the potential to promote literacy and reading in an innovative and exciting fashion." The post provides 10 practical teaching and learning strategies to enhance reading using the iPad.
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"Romantic types like to portray books as flights of fancy offering up imaginative escapes from everyday drudgeries of work, school, and the like. But literature, no matter the medium, holds some pretty amazing, scientifically analyzed perks right here on terra firma. Passionate readers generally enjoy more finely-tuned brains than those who prefer more passive (though not lesser) activities, so anyone hoping to improve their minds both psychologically and cognitively might want to think about taking up the habit of regular reading."
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ZooWhiz is FREE for teachers and kids to use at school (and at home or parents may purchase a Premium account). Teachers may create free accounts for their students; there is a comprehensive curriculum correlated with over 17,000 educational activities which includes math, reading, word skills, punctuation and grammar; and teachers may access detailed reports by child and class; activities for ages 5 - 15. A site worth checking out to use with your students.
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This infographic comes out of a recently published book, 'Reducing the Risk, Increasing the Promise: Strategies for Student Success.' The book explores ways to help "at-risk students achieve success in and out of the classroom." This infographic proivdes six skills that students need to do this: * Resilience * Resourcefulness * Responsibility * Relationships * Respect * Reading The infographic includes some specific details for each of the skills. A great resource that may be shared with students.
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What do we know about how schools learn and what do we know about how students are taught in schools? This is the first chapter (of an unknown number) that begins: "Schools are word-based. The first things young students learn are the ABCs and how to read. This usually begins with a flashcard showing the letter “A” and a picture of a red delicious apple. There have always been visual reinforcements for words, especially in the formative years. As students advance, the pictures gradually diminish and the words increase." There is discussion on how much students know through visual images long before they begin to read at the age of ~5 as well as a discussion about the "explosion of visual language that changed the life of almost every child" in the 50s. This chapter raised a number of points that I hope to see explored in more detailed as more is published.
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I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying "light reading," in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of characters from chapter to chapter. At first, I attributed the lapses to a scary reality of getting older — but then I discovered that I didn’t have this problem when I read paperbacks.
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Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
Madison Totushek's curator insight,
August 27, 2015 5:08 PM
I found this article to be interesting because of how society currently views teenagers using social media. One could think that it is a distraction of getting school work done, but this study has proven that assumption to be wrong... in a way. I personally believe that social media can be distracting if we are laying in bed scrolling through our endless twitter or instagram feed instead of doing homework. This study has shown that if people are using social media in an academic context, then it can actually be somewhat beneficial. The group that was using twitter actually showed more engagement in the subject as well as a .5 increase in their GPA. 
Sylvia Sanchez's curator insight,
February 8, 2016 5:31 PM
This article talks about how tweeting class discussion help students become successful. There has been studies on students and how using social media has help the students more engaged towards the class. This article is more towards teachers to help their students be more successful in their class. It also helps students be more engaged in what is going on in their classrooms. 
Kelly O'Hara's curator insight,
February 14, 2016 7:07 PM
My opinion of this article is split in half; I don’t like incorporating technology into something like a homework assignment, as technology is already a huge enough deal in society today, but because everyone in my generation is so obsessed with technology, and social media like instagram and twitter, if someone provided a way to keep their students more engaged in the class through a medium more age appropriate, and it worked, then that’s pretty genius. Being eighteen, all my friends have instagram, twitter, tumblr and snapchat. All the time, my friends pressure me into making an insta profile, as I only have a snapchat, which is enough social media for my taste. I’m obviously not the only teenager with a dislike for social media, but it’s hard to avoid. There are so many people wrapped up into it, that it becomes something they couldn’t bare to live without. And because doing homework isn’t exactly the most exciting and fun thing to do, incorporating social media into it makes it seem more entertaining and therefore of course more people are going to become engaged. So overall, even though I’d personally be more annoyed, I think the idea of incorporating twitter in the classroom was a good way to keep the students of this generation engaged. |
This post begins:
"In order to be an effective reader, two skills are required:
The post also provides access to an interview with Dr. Keith Stanovich who "argues that reading improves ‘crystallized intelligence’ and compares children who do not learn to read with those who do, by using ‘the Matthew Effect’ analogy."
The question remains, how do we help students whom do not read well, who have difficulty decoding text? We need to seriously consider the options, which include aural text (as in text that is read to students).
This issue is close to my heart. We want our students to be successful, yet we do not provide tools that are readily available to all who would benefit from them. This post looks at resources that are available in England for struggling readers. I will add a number of resources that are available in the US, and others may add resources for their countries in the comment section.
The question that each of us must answer is should we advocate for our students who are struggling with their reading skills to be able to use TTS (text-to-speech) programs that provide them with the ability to listen to the text and understand the text, without necessarily relying on their decoding skills? Do we give them the opportunity to level the playing field? By providing students with access to text that meets their learning style, we have given them the opportunity to be successful.
Today there are many free (or low cost) tools available that allow students to have text read to them. In the US two key players that help provide text to students (think books) with diagnosed reading disabilities are Bookshare, which provides free access to many books as well as TTS software and Learning Ally, which has many resources for students with dyslexia but may also require a membership fee. Additional sites to check out are Natural Voice Reader, which will read digitized text directly from a website and Rewordify, which will simplify the text.
Do you know free (or low cost) tools that help struggling readers? Please share them in the comment section.