Connecting a ‘just right’ opportunity to engage in independent deeper thinking and a resource that allows that to happen is a challenge. When the two meet, it’s almost magical, especially when it can include students who struggle with reading and writing. For these, time is spent mostly on the mechanics of reading/writing, leaving little cognitive energy for…
Tag: reading adapted
Reading the Impossible
Many of you have asked me if there is support for those who struggle with reading digital content especially when it is written above instructional reading levels. Every time a class attempts research out on the web, students are faced with information they cannot comfortably read. For the brain to have enough neuronal resources to…
Sharing Stories…Modeling Strategies…
Sometimes locating just the right book to share or use as a piece of mentor text appears impossible to find. Or have you ever wanted to expand opportunities for your students to read at home? We now have access to TumbleBooks and TumbleBookCloud. [See links under Resources.] These online resources provide a fabulous array of e-texts for all…
Support with Destination Success – Reading
I’ve posted about Destination Reading before but it seems like a good time to bring it up again. Especially since most of you are on the home stretch with many of your students completing the first two products and enrolling a new batch. Your students have been involved with an intensive program to retrain those parts of…