Some game designers are using video games to encourage reading. Players read a book to answer questions that are a key component of the video game.
CARLSBAD, Calif.— When PJ Haarsma wrote his first book, a science fiction novel for preteenagers, he didn’t think just about how to describe Orbis, the planetary system where the story takes place. He also thought about how it should look and feel in a video game.
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Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can:
* Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
* Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer,
* View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,
* Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.
A Dramatic Reading of Adolescent Literature
J. Lea Smith and J. Daniel Herring
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and
see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and
studies the masters. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.
William Faulkner
To meet the challenge of attracting middle-level students to the literate
life, language arts educators focus instruction on process. This design
creates a learning environment where students, along with their teacher,
construct literacy as they participate in authentic acts of reading,
writing, speaking, and listening. The pivotal instructional components —
reading workshop and writing workshop — immerse the adolescent
learner in 1) regular chunks of time to write and read, 2) self-selection
of writing topics and reading materials, and 3) meaningful dialogue with
peers and teacher (Atwell, 1987). Within this context, a fire is kindled to
ignite adolescents to write during writing workshop and read during
reading workshop.
Some nice webcasts from Reading Rockets. Some great professional
development videos in reference to the best practices of reading
instruction.
Voyager Expanded Learning, ExploreLearning and Learning A-Z, received seven finalist honors for CODiE Awards in five different education categories. The CODiE awards are given annually by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA).
Student achievement gains continue to come in the Raytown School District’s Read 180 and Math Academy programs, which are designed to meet individual student needs.
Tools developed by researchers exploring language and speech comprehension can be powerful aids for remedial readers, children with language challenges, and anyone learning a second language, according to psychology professor Dominic Massaro of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Some game designers are using video games to encourage reading. Players read a book to answer questions that are a key component of the video game.
CARLSBAD, Calif.— When PJ Haarsma wrote his first book, a science fiction novel for preteenagers, he didn’t think just about how to describe Orbis, the planetary system where the story takes place. He also thought about how it should look and feel in a video game.
Some nice webcasts from Reading Rockets. Some great professional development videos in reference to the best practices of reading instruction.
Voyager Expanded Learning, ExploreLearning and Learning A-Z, received seven finalist honors for CODiE Awards in five different education categories. The CODiE awards are given annually by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA).
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