Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Sunday, August 6, 2023

Generative AI and the Science of Reading

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Learning to read requires excellent texts that are carefully constructed to combine a few elements, interest, introduction of new vocabulary...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Voice Assistants

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Our spaces our filling with voice assistants, Google, Apple, and Amazon all have created an interface that allows users including young lear...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Why Silent Reading Rates and Stamina are More Important than Ever!

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Freddy Hiebert currently of TextProject , Emily Hayden of Iowa State and I recently published an empirical paper about patterns of silent ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Reading on Devices- Three Rules

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 Monday morning, I was making breakfast when my son asked: "Dad can I read?". "Sure?" I answered quizzically. "No...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Almost There- Reading Rainbow and Beyond

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A few weeks back I had a chance to hear Dr. Twila Liggett discuss her work in the development of Reading Rainbow . In a wonderful w...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Five ways to help students find the Sweet Read

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Today is Read across America day . This morning I watched my son Oren (11) read right after he got up. He is rereading for the ??th time the...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Bob Calfee- A Mentor

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Robert Calfee 1933-2014 Bob died last night. Bob was my mentor, the kind that sticks in your head long after you moved out of state. I r...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Five ways that setting the bar too high can be a bad thing

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A district I work with has been focusing on literacy especially reading in the last few years. In multiple ways the district keeps redefin...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Standards and Integration

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Last week I participated in the first phase of Reading/ Language Arts standards writing organized by the Nebraska department of education...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Back at the Reading Center- iPads and pre service teachers

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 I come back to Reading Center every summer with anticipation. It is a great place to try out new ideas and examine change in teachers and...
Monday, May 13, 2013

E Readers and Young Students

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At AERA I went to a superb session about the impact of e readers on young students engagement, vocabulary and reading success. The results w...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

iPad Momentum

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On friday Laurie and I presented at the Nebraska State Reading Association annual meeting in Kearney  Nebraska. We were (as we find out) ...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

Current and Future Teachers Reflecting on iPad Use

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We have used iPads in the Reading Center all summer. I decided to include unedited comments of some of my students who ag...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Home Literacy Environment in the Digital Age

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Recently I have been working on home literacy environment and came across the Home Literacy Environment Questionnaire (HLEQ) by Griffin and...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Revisiting iPads in the Reading Center

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I am spending another summer in our Reading Center . Graduate and undergraduate students are working with a wonderful group of striving read...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

Teachers goin' Mobile

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I am spending a good portion of my waking hours at the KDS Reading Center this summer. Class starts with introducing iPads. My students las...
Monday, May 28, 2012

On Inspiration

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It is the end of the year in our school district so my children came home with all that was left in their class. Oren who is in second gra...