Many of you have taken advantage of accessing Reading Levels. These products focus on elements that bridge to reading – decoding, spelling, sentence and paragraph comprehension. As well, practice with word play, categorization and comprehension strategies serve to enhance areas that are weak. The program follows the same protocols as Fast ForWord and interventions are…
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Accessible Reading and Writing with iPad Apps
For those of you with access to iPads, you might wish to consider using the following free apps. Reading text online is just as challenging as reading a book if your students struggle with reading. Try Voice Dream Reader Lite. This handy app reads online webpages, documents, pdf, text, powerpoint, ebooks, Pocket, using text- to -speech…
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…
The Next Steps… Reading Series Bridges Literacy
It’s here! For those of you with students who completed Fast ForWord or with students who may fit into that RTI (tier 2 or 3) group, this may be the connection you’ve been seeking. I’ll be hosting an online webinar to share details of the Reading Series and Fluency Program, who would best fit, as…
Launching Reading Levels Series
We’re thrilled to be able to provide Reading Series to every Fast ForWord site. Last year, three of our sites piloted this series with some students who completed Fast ForWord processing exercises. The positive responses from both students and teachers have moved us forward in this opportunity. Reading Levels takes the same approach as Fast ForWord…
Reading Products – Up and Running
Our Reading products are up and running after a bit of a bumpy technical start. (All of our sites are going through a districtwide reimaging process, which has given some of us an opportunity to practice our problem-solving skills.) However, even during the early stages, we are seeing some positives. Both students and classroom teachers…
How Readable is the Information?
Readability may be defined as ‘reading ease’ or how content can be successfully understood. Teachers know that comprehension is dependent on many variables, one of which is the readability level of information whether online or in print. It matters little if you have the best list of websites for research but the students have difficulties…
Reaching More with Less $ – SET-BC/PSAP
Sometimes post holiday sidewalk sales aren’t just in malls. Some of you have been using Kurzweil 3000 and are finding great benefits in how the students are able to be fully engaged with class materials. For those of you who have been waiting or saving up your pennies, SET BC/PSAP has launched a discount to…
It’s All About Reading – Learning Session
Our learning session on the new Reading Series is on Tuesday January 11 (3:30-5:30) at Schou – TLC. Our connecting questions: How does the new Reading exercises help to bridge students to gaining reading skills? What practices provided in the exercises can be shared in larger groups with classroom teachers? What students can best benefit…
New Reading Products Info and Support
For those sites who are having the Reading Products installed, instruction manuals are located in the tab above > HOW TO’s. Date for learning: Tuesday January 11, 2011. (3:30-5:30pm) Schou – TLC Session will focus on introduction, focus of exercises, assessment, connections to reading and administrative setup with hands-on practice.
Power in Interventions
Wow! We just finished our Interventions Day with Tom Chapin and what an amazing day. For some it was an introduction to Progress Tracker and the implications of what the data was showing us. For others it was a new twist on what we knew. Everyone took away a new found appreciation for both using…
Kurzweil Journey Update
Hi All, Many of you are trying out the many complexities of the program and doing a great job! Some of you are finding ARC challenging to negotiate – remember that the Main library houses the actual kes files specifically created for you by colleagues across the province. As well this area has many other…
Kurzweil – Learning Session 2 (from here to there..)
Session 2 is Monday May 3rd (3:30-5:30pm) at Schou. Please bring your manual, a flashdrive (if you have one) as well as any questions that you may have during your time of exploration at school. We will start by revisiting some highlights of our first session and then move forward.