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Technology Apps for Reading Difficulties or Dyslexia
I appreciated this article on apps to support students with challenges in reading acquisition. It describes apps for elementary through high school students. Ten Tech Hacks to Help a Struggling Reader 10 Tech Hacks to Help a Struggling Reader
Research on Context Cues
Did I really write “I will review the research which tells us context cues…are not the most effective cues for teaching skilled word recognition.”? Ooops way toooo big an undertaking for a blog. The reading research community has published so … Continue reading
Context for Reading Words
In the 70s a very popular theory about reading was that skilled readers were using the context of what they were reading and were thus predicting what words were coming. This is what was thought to allow skilled readers to … Continue reading
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Helping a 1st grader with Phonological Awareness
After a year of kindergarten instruction including additional reading support, and again in 1st grade LJ was still having significant difficulty learning to read. One area of weakness, despite receiving instruction, was in phonological awareness. We were asked for our … Continue reading
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What is Phonological Awareness?
Research in reading has found that there are many factors contributing to success in learning to read. One of these factors is a skill called phonological awareness. What is phonological awareness? Phonological awareness is refers to the ability to detect … Continue reading
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