Teaching Reading Comprehension to Dyslexic Students
Reading comprehension is frequently very difficult for Students with dyslexia They are challenged by word recognition; they may forget a word even though they have seen it several times. They may spend so much time and effort in sounding words out, they lose the meaning of the text or they may need to read a passage over and over to fully understand what is being said. An in-depth report, completed by the National Reading Panel in 2000, provides a look at how teachers can best teach students reading comprehension.
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English Levels (Based on the CEFR) A2: Basic - Elementary B1: Intermediate B2: Upper Intermediate C1: Advanced A1-Beginner and C2-Proficiency levels not available. Difficulty: 2.59
10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics
People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That’s been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics ? What would you make it of? It’s actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever. Below are my two favorite infographic-making web 2.0 tools that I highly recommend.
Reading Comprehension - Tips for Teaching to Students with Dyslexia
Teaching reading comprehension starts early. Parents and teachers reading books to toddlers may begin the reading comprehension process by looking at pictures and talking about what the characters are doing or ask questions like, "What do you think Harry is going to do next?" or "Why do you think Sam got angry?"
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Dyslexia and the Brain: What Does Current Research Tell Us?
Click the "References" link above to hide these references. Adams, M.J. (1990). Beginning to read: Thinking and learning about print. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. American Optometric Association. (2004).
20 Web 2.0 Sites that does not Require Sto
This is a post I've been wanting to do for some quite some time but had to do some research to get the information I needed. A huge factor for schools in dealing w/ students and working online is CIPA/COPPA compliance. This is to ensure student safety as well as monitor/filter their online behavior. As Web 2.0 becomes more popular and Educational Technology online sites replace desktop software this has become more of an issue. A lot of subscription based or Ed Tech sites require a student email address to create an account which can become a BIG issue when dealing w/ CIPA compliance, because a majority of students to not have a school email account. That being said, there are still a number of Web 2.0 sites that do not require a student email address to create an account.
Access to Communication for Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and ESL Students in Blended Learning Courses
Gary L. Long National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Karen Vignare Michigan State University , USA Raychel P. Rappold Online Learning Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Jim Mallory National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
New 11 Educational Web Tools for Teachers to Try
Below is a list of some awesome educational web tools that you can use in your classroom or for your professional development. As you probably know, each Sunday I post here a list of the new web tools I stumble upon in different blogs, wikis, and websites and because of my time constraints I can not review each one in a single post and hence gathering them here under the one umbrella heading called : Educational Web Tools. Check out the list I have assembled for you this week and tell me what you think about it : 1- StatsGram
Why “Visualising Ideas”?
As a teacher of deaf and hard of hearing students I’m constantly “visualising ideas”. By “visualising” I mean a multitude of things. For starters, there’s Sign Language, an absolutely visual mode.
Google Launches Free Tool To Let You Run Your Own Online Courses
Sensing the excitement from online education tools like edX , Google has just unveiled a (very beta) version of its own course building software. If you’ve ever wanted to run your own online courses, this might be worth your time. Google’s new Course Builder software comes on the heels of a massively popular online Google class ‘ Power Searching With Google ‘ hosted by Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig.
Teaching English To Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Lights and ACTION No, no camera here. But most certainly “lights” and lots of “action”! In our English (as a foreign language) classroom for deaf and hard of hearing students, you will always find the lights on, even on sunny days, so that the students can see my face and hands clearly. In fact, if the day is particularly sunny (which it often is here in Israel!) we close the curtains so that the light won’t cause distorting reflections!
Teachers Manual on The Use of Google Docs in Education
Google Docs is a great service that everyone of you has to be using. It has such a huge potential in education that we never let a chance go by without including it in an article or a review here. Google Docs is both a handy office suite and smart cloud storage utility. From the time I started using Google Docs, I never went back to my Microsoft Office. Why would I and Google Docs offers me more services and options than Microsoft Office, and the funny part of it all is that I woke up the other day and found a message from Microsoft informing me that my Office license has expired and that I need to buy a new one.
5 Great Sites for Student Animation
Online animation is one of the most exciting advances in education technology, allowing students the opportunity to be endlessly creative in designing their own comic strips, movies and more. It’s a fantastic way to liven up the classroom and is guaranteed to be a big hit with young and older students alike, due to the great range of websites available and their ability to both cater to simplicity and accommodate more complex creations. With the advent of this plethora of great new sites, art and drawing are no longer only for the art class – they can be brought to bear on almost any subject and can be particularly useful for lightening otherwise dry topic material.
