Tag Archives: reading

Newsela a unicorn

Posted on March 2, 2021 by admin

I happened across this article in TechCrunch describing the recent financial success of Newsela in securing funding bringing the value of the company to one billion dollars. A billion dollar company is tagged as a unicorn and there are not … Continue reading →

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Newsela – beyond reading levels

Posted on December 18, 2018 by admin

For educators wanting an alternative to textbook-focused instruction or quality compliments to textbook-focused instruction using historical documents and quality news stories, Newsela may provide just what you are looking for. In addition to the carefully curated content, the education service … Continue reading →

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Read along

Posted on July 29, 2017 by admin

There must be an idea here. Reading along with the Hamilton soundtrack on the Amazon Show. Cindy used to chart music from songs as a reading activity. This required a great deal of time. One way I like to think … Continue reading →

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Google Play Books

Posted on October 1, 2014 by admin

I believe if you are willing to advocate for the purchase of certain apps you also must be critical when criticism is called for. I am advocate of ebooks in education and we have an ebook (a textbook) in the … Continue reading →

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Reading online – if you want

Posted on May 11, 2014 by admin

Daniel Willingham is a favorite of mine when it comes to challenging practicing educators to differentiate education myth from reality. I assign one of his books and encourage reading of his blog. He recently took on the claim that online … Continue reading →

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Adventure Games

Posted on September 18, 2012 by admin

This is an interesting resource – web based adventure games (How to Geek). Way back when I was a reading researcher, I conducted several studies on the use of text based adventure games as a useful reading instruction tool. If … Continue reading →

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Is the future determined by the end of third grade?

Posted on April 14, 2011 by admin

I was in New Orleans at AERA yesterday, but learned of one of the more interesting studies presented after returning home and reading through my blog list. This summary of the AERA paper by Donald J. Hernandez indicates that reading proficiency … Continue reading →

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