Over 100 Free Audio Books for Early Readers. November, 2014Unite for Literacy is a great website I discovered through Mattbgomz. The site features over 100 audio books for early readers. You can use these materials with your kids to help them improve their reading skills. These books can also be played on iPad so you can access them on the go. The audio books offered by Unite for Literacy are all free and you can use them right off the website. There is nothing to download and no registration is required. You can also choose the narration language you want. There are over 30 narration languages to choose from.
Unite for Literacy also provides a feature called Reading Community which allows you to set a reading community for your kids based on your geographic location. 15 Great Audiobooks for Helping Kids Read Better. How to encourage students to read for pleasure: teachers share their top tips | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional. The big challenge for teachers is not simply getting students to read – it's getting them to enjoy it too. It's one thing for students to trudge through set texts in a lesson, but will they open another book when they get home at the end of the day? The National Literacy Trust has noted that becoming a lifetime reader is based on developing a deep love of reading. "Research has repeatedly shown that motivation to read decreases with age, especially if pupils' attitudes towards reading become less positive," it said.
"If children do not enjoy reading when they are young, then they are unlikely to do so when they get older. " For younger readers in particular, their home environment is critically important. "Home is a massive influence," says Eleanor Webster, a primary school teacher in Nottinghamshire. But if a pupil doesn't see people reading at home, it may be harder to instil the idea of reading for pleasure. Reading challenges "They're always very popular," she says. Escapism Reading walls. The Reading Shed. Reading Log | Reading Logs | Reading Incentive Program | Reading-Rewards.com. Book Trailers for Readers - How to make a book trailer.
By Teacher Librarian Michelle Harclerode: www.booktrailersforreaders.com - Keep scrolling all the way down for lots of goodies & links to websites. Are you an author? Educational Standards met with digital presentations : Florida SSS ----- Common Core Standards This is the big picture above. Scroll down for a 7 part break down on how to make a book trailer. Although these instructions are created for the simple but classic Photo Story the basics can be applied to many video editing programs. The book trailers I create for the Sunshine State Readers are done with Adobe Premiere Elements 14.0 and Adobe Premiere Pro CC, while most students are using Photo Story 3 or Windows Live Movie Maker.
Background on Book Trailers Book Trailers are an excellent way to communicate the excitement of reading while promoting new or favorite books. Student Made Book Trailers: Hints and Handouts Look at our Student Made Book Trailers to get ideas. What I have learned about making book trailers : Kylielouise17 : iTune into reading display. Activities for Children's Book Week, 2013. We're getting close to that time of year in Australia when all who love reading and children's books have a huge celebration known as Children's Book Week. School and public libraries will be offering all sorts of activities and fun according to this year's theme: Read across the Universe.
The dates for Children's Book Week Australia 2013 are: Saturday 17 – Friday 23 August. To help in your celebrations, I offer a googol of goodies! I won't be giving suggestions on using the short-listed texts with kids. Others do a far better job with that than I would (e.g. 1. 2. 3. In keeping with the Read across the Universe theme, this week might make a great time to nudge your kids towards wider reading. If you're looking for one fantastic creative thing to do with your kids this year, co-create a book with a Universe/Space theme at Storybird. Photographs can make amazing prompts for storytelling. CHALLENGES FOR KIDS These are extra to the free PDF activity booklet I described in 2 (above.)
Oxford Owl - Welcome. After School Education / Zap It...a game I learned in grad school. Put high frequency words on sticks (these are foam sticks) and write zap it on a few sticks. The kids pull sticks from a container and read the words. If someone gets Zap It, all of the st. Great list of books for kids. | FirstGradeFaculty.com. 10 Book Series to Read Aloud with Your Kids. By Kristen Howerton | I fail at a lot of things as a parent, but one thing I think Mark and I have done well is teach our kids to be voracious readers. (Here’s an earlier post about raising kids who love to read). Our kids’ beds are regularly hidden under piles of books. And while all four of our kids have regular early bedtimes, we let them stay up as late as they want—as long as they are reading. Mark and I also try to model this behavior for our kids, and make a point to be reading in front of them often.
One thing we are trying to do more of is read together, aloud, as a family. There’s something about all of us sitting around the table or on the couch together getting immersed in a story for the first time. 10 Book Series to Read Aloud with Your Kids Click on to discover great books for kids (and parents!) The Complete Ramona Collection Ramona Quimby! The Mysterious Benedict Society Little House on the Prairie More on Babble About Kristen Howerton Kristen Howerton. 11 Free Reading Websites for Kids | School. 10 Quick Classroom Games to improve Literacy Skills - Edgalaxy - Cool Stuff For Nerdy Teachers.
A colleague of mine recently shard these 10 great ideas to impove literacy skills in the classroom. They are simple to play and can be applied to nearly all year levesl. Enjoy. Sentence Stretching Start with a short sentence or group of words. Rebus writing Students write sentences or longer texts and substitute drawings for the nouns. It’s in the bag Place an object in a bag- make sure the students don’t see it. Touch and tell An object is passed around a group of students. Alternative Students provide an adjectival phrase or clause to describe the object Verb Draw Students randomly select from a box a picture of an animal, person or objects that move. The students can supply verbs and adverbs They can supply adjectives or adjectival groups Hot Seat Read a text ( this case narrative) and at a particular point stop and ask students to select a character and suggest, for example: What the character is doing, thinking, feeling ( focus on processes) Change the meaning- change one word Toss and write.
How many minutes can our school read in a week? August 10, 2013 by smotlrcblog · 8 Comments · Uncategorized The countdown is on to celebrate The Reading Hour on Saturday, August 24th. Last year we had lots of fun wearing our pajamas to school for The Reading Hour. This year we have a much bigger challenge…. If we add up the minutes everyone at our school reads at home and at school for a week what would the total number of minutes be??? Are YOU ready for our Reading Hour Challenge? We will be reading: Saturday, August 17th – Saturday, August 24th All you need to do is your usual reading and then record the number of minutes you read. You will receive a sheet to record your reading and you can also print it from here if you need to Student Reading Minutes How many minutes will YOU read? How many minutes will your CLASS read? How many minutes will our SCHOOL read? Tags: Reading·Reading Hour. Classroom Ideas / This download makes a great poster for the classroom. I have launched many reading lessons off this poster... it's a visual reminder for my studen...
Anchor Charts: Reading and Writing Goals...Wonderful! | School Stuff. School ideas / Great visual for Reading strategies!! Could make this as an anchor chart adding strategies as you practice them in class! Website lists all the free ebooks available on Amazon. Creating a reading community – Goodreads. Encouraging young people to read has never been harder – on the one hand. Recess and lunchtimes at our school attest to a full-to-bursting library, but on closer inspection our boys are socialising around the games on their ipads. On the other hand, the technology we sometimes blame for a drop in an interest in literature could also become our saving grace in bringing the passion back in reading. Photo source: This year I’m keen to experiment with Goodreads as a platform for reading, sharing and discussing literature.
There’s been a decent amount of interest from Year 9 and 10 English teachers, as well as from my team in the library. So, why am I so passionate about Goodreads? Goodreads is the best of social media. Photo source: Reading can be much more than completing a book; within Goodreads it can involve: Like this: Like Loading... Teaching- Reading & Writing / Cute Writer's Toolbox poster Freebie.
Teacher Swag / Add to hw log next year? Have to write somehow about what their nightly reading is? Online Reading Log - Reading-Rewards.com. Reading / Attach this to the take home reading folder... Such a fantastic idea- what is your reading footprint? ... | Professi… Total Cruft. Abandon all hope: 39 ways to die! [Updated with new insights] Growing up, the first taste I had for interactive media was through “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, which ended each scene with a choice that the reader must make.
One choice may continue the plot-line, one might take you on a tangent, and the third would lead to certain doom. Each book varied dramatically in complexity and usually boasted on the front cover the vast number of possible endings… of which, most were death or detention. I loved those books. I loved taking the wrong turn in “The Cave of Time” or outrunning the mummy in… whatever the one with the mummy was called. And last year, I decided to create my own interactive story–as an experiment–using the most narrative-hostile environment I could think of: Twitter.
Given that Twitter limits all content to just 140 characters, how could anyone write a meaningful narrative, much less an interactive one? Planning Chapter One--SPOILERS! Enter Apple’s Numbers app. Paul Jennings - Encouraging Children to Read - Author Interviews - Reading Matters - My Book Corner. Wow, have we got a treat for you! Nurturing buzzing, life long readers is a big responsibility. Some children take to it like a duck to water, others, well a little more creativity is required.
Paul Jennings, as well as being a prolific childrens' author has a strong background in teaching and speech pathology. Oh, and he also has six children of his own. So, when I had the chance for Paul to pop into My Book Corner I just had to ask him to share some of his invaluable advice with you. I'd love to know what you think about these. Which one resonates the most with you? Paul Jenning's Top Ten Tips for Encouraging Children to Read One Fun, fun, fun.
If children don’t want to do something it’s almost impossible to get them going. Two Choose material which interests them. It can be fiction, it can be non-fiction. There is something for everyone – find it. Three Make sure the reading difficulty level is appropriate. Four Read to the children from a very early age. Five Six Keep it positive and avoid failure. Ten ideas to help your child with reading. Championing children's reading - Boori Monty Pryor and Alison Lester - ABC Splash - Something extraordinarily exciting has been happening over the past eighteen months, as Australia has been introduced to the inaugural Children's Laureate – a national ambassador program dedicated to promoting reading, writing, imagination, creativity and storytelling. The role of the Children's Laureate for 2012 and 2013 is shared by two eminent and much-loved children's authors, Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor. Appointed on a biennial basis, Children's Laureates work to promote the power of reading and story in the lives of young Australians, acting as national and international ambassadors for Australian children's literature.
At the heart of our inaugural Laureates' experience has been an extensive national touring program, visiting every state and territory during their two-year term. By the end of their Laureateship they will have spent more than 100 days touring Australia and working with an estimated 10,000 children/families in over 50 locations. Background And Alison Lester? 21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World. In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes. " Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents.
They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium. Basic Language Literacy Visual Literacy Spatial Literacy Three Information Literacy Questions to Ask About a Map: Handout Historical Literacy Cultural Literacy Information Literacy Political Literacy and News Media Literacy Scientific Literacy Mathematical Literacy.
Reading Records. Kids Share Book Recommendations. Use Online Reading Logs, Find Books At Their Reading Level. How I built a culture of reading in my classroom « Teaching the Teacher. Image by CaptPiper used under creative commons licence Of all the accomplishments I’ve made in my second term of teaching the one I am most proud of is building a reading culture in my class. This may sound weird as most people seem to assume that geeks eschew books in favour of gadgets.
While I have proclaimed my love for my iphone, I also understand the power of books. There’s something magical about cracking the spine on a brand new book or the smell that comes from picking up a treasure found in the back of a second-hand bookstore. I know my own life has been enriched by reading. Towards the end of my course last year I felt woefully under-prepared to teach senior literacy when @Kathryntrask reviewed the Book Whisperer on her blog. The Daily 5 gave me some concrete classroom management strategies in order to build the classroom environment which supports the student-selected reading. As part of the challenge each week the students write a letter reflecting on their progress. The 10 Rights Of A Reader. The 90-Second History Of Education 9.93K Views 0 Likes Well here's an insanely detailed infographic to peruse.
It's the history of education and details the past, present, and future. The 10 Points Of View, Explained. 1.91K Views 0 Likes I don't know why I love this. Ten Ways to Cultivate a Love of Reading in Students. As a teacher, I was obsessed with cultivating a love of reading in my students. I love to read, loved it as a kid too. I'm equally compelled to ensure that my own child loves reading -- and he does. I well aware that I'm on a mission -- but I also know it's a worthy one!
Here are ten suggestions for how any teacher, teaching any subject can participate in this mission, and how parents and administrators can help. Read. Simple first step! If we're going to encourage kids to read we need to do it too. There's so much more we can all do -- from the superintendent to the classroom teacher, the custodian to the parent's association. Teaches, how do you cultivate a love of reading? School / Sight Word Make-It Station. Year 6 Picture Book Study. Teaching Stuff / Building A Reader At Home - Parent Handout - Reading Strategies for Parents.
FREEBIE Reciprocal Teaching Bookmark Guide - KinderLoves. Be a Good Reader / Free Reading is Thinking chart for reading minilessons. Reading / A list of ways kids can use sticky notes to record their thinking while reading - their metacognition…. Meet The Authletes « Think Kid, Think!