{"id":458,"date":"2010-04-04T08:28:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbyfastforword.wordpress.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2010-04-04T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:28:25","slug":"bridging-reading-with-kurzweil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/bridging-reading-with-kurzweil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging Reading with\u00a0Kurzweil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> So why Kurzweil?\u00a0 While students\u00a0are exercising their brain with Fast ForWord, the need for practice with reading comprehension continues.\u00a0 This part of literacy is challenging as you need to have the student work within their ‘just right text’<\/em> zone.\u00a0 Otherwise, the student ends up expending critical brain energy on decoding and never getting to the comprehension piece.\u00a0 Rather than just using texts at their reading level, which in many ways affects self esteem, why not access the power of technology and open the doors to a wider selection of reading choices?\u00a0 The students can read novels with their peers and work on those comprehension strategies as presented to the whole class. Here is where the classroom bridge happens.\u00a0 (* Stay tuned for more on specific strategies in later posts. We’d love you to comment on any strategies or stories that you’ve experienced successful integration. Click on the Leave a Comment hyperlink<\/strong> at the bottom\u00a0to open a text box.) <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For those of you who recently purchased Kurzweil<\/strong><\/a> (or already have it) and going through training,\u00a0 I’m attaching a doc with instructions of how the network folders and permission rights (CLICK HERE<\/a>) can be set up so you get maximum flexibility in managing the textbook or novel files.\u00a0 Further, it allows the opportunity to build lateral capacity with your colleagues as they can offer their classroom worksheets and assignments.\u00a0 Please speak to\u00a0the Tech Liaison at your school to create the folder structure with you.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Developing Your E-Content<\/strong> (textbooks, novels, worksheets, assignments…) is the most time-consuming part of the process.\u00a0\u00a0 One way to do this is to access the resources from ARC-BC<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 All LSS teachers can get access\u00a0by going through the district LSS training.\u00a0 (*Please contact your district LSS teacher for details on April’s training date.)<\/em> ARC-BC continues to develop their learning objects and are willing to convert your textbooks (as long as you send them a copy of it).\u00a0 Already, the elementary\u00a0texts of Science and Social Studies and Language Arts-Connections<\/em> are in .kes format.\u00a0 The elementary Math Makes Sense<\/em> is in pdf.\u00a0 As well, there are many popular novels which the students can read (eg.\u00a0Lightning Thief<\/span><\/em> – part of this year’s Battle of the Books list, Artemis Fowl, Bridge to Terabithia, Charlie Bone, Chasing Vermeer, Eragon, Holes, Hoot<\/span><\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0 Incorporating e-novels into your literature circle (or language arts) conversations is\u00a0a powerful way to have students practice the same comprehension strategies that you use in\u00a0the classroom.\u00a0 By using Kurzweil, students who are at emergent\/novice levels of decoding have a chance to work with critical thinking skills with texts at their grade level. What a self esteem booster!
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Another way to convert\u00a0files (and quicker than the scanner) is to use your photocopier<\/strong> (set up for email-PDF).\u00a0 If you haven’t had your copier set up yet, please talk to one of our Learning Technologies team and we will be happy to walk you through the process.\u00a0\u00a0And finally, there is the scanner<\/strong>, which provides the greatest of\u00a0flexibility (within\u00a0Kurzweil)\u00a0in converting text to electronic.\u00a0 As I said in the learning session, this takes quite a\u00a0bit longer than the copier\u00a0but produces a phenomenal result (in colour).\u00a0 If you would like to explore this further, please contact Learning Technologies team and we can advise you in selecting\u00a0the right scanner (not all scanners work).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So why Kurzweil?\u00a0 While students\u00a0are exercising their brain with Fast ForWord, the need for practice with reading comprehension continues.\u00a0 This part of literacy is challenging as you need to have the student work within their ‘just right text’ zone.\u00a0 Otherwise, the student ends up expending critical brain energy on decoding and never getting to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,6,14],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}