{"id":2104,"date":"2013-09-29T21:20:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2013-10-06T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T22:48:18","slug":"reading-the-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/reading-the-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 devote to comprehension they must be able to read at their independent reading level (*that’s an extremely high accuracy rate).<\/p>\n

A handy site [no downloading] that I’ve shared is Rewordify<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>. This online tool allows you to copy a text or website link into a box area. It locates and converts difficult words into more commonly understood words.
\n\"rewordify\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For example, I copied\/pasted the definition of “Autumn”. Rewordify<\/a> highlights the difficult words in purple and inserts the common words in yellow.
\n\"rewordify_result\"<\/a>
\nAdditional features in Settings, offers some ability to customize.<\/p>\n

Differentiation is attained without losing sight of the original text. You can even work on building vocabulary at the same time! Let me know what you think and how you’ve used it in your classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,14],"tags":[18,25,28,34,48,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}