Psst… “TWRC” rhymes with “work.” With a little TWRCing, I bet you can figure out what the letters T-W-R-C represent. :)
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Why and How to Motivate a Reluctant Reader (1 of 2)
A guest post request on motivation from Dawn Little at the Literacy Toolbox inspired me to write the post below. After following her on Twitter for some time, I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting her in person at the … Continue reading
Posted in Background Knowledge, Help for Parents, Motivation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Volume, Struggling Readers, Vocabulary
Tagged Audio Books, Audiobooks, Authors, Background Knowledge, Book Series, Closed Captioning, Content Area Reading, Daniel Willingham, Dawn Little, Dictionaries, English Language Learners (ELLs), Facebook, Finland, Genres, Guest Posting, Help for Parents, Home Libraries, Inference, IRA's 55th Annual Convention - 2010, Jim Trelease, Jokes, Librarians, Libraries, Motivation, Non-Fiction/Informational Text, Phonics/Decoding, Poetry/Nursery Rhymes, Reading Aloud to Children, Reading Comprehension, Reading Is Boring, Reading stamina, Reading Volume, Reluctant Readers, Second Language Learners, Struggling Readers, Studies, Talk in the Home, Twitter, University of Oregon, Videos, Vocabulary, Wonder
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Common Causes of Comprehension Difficulties
While spending time with my family this Memorial Day weekend, a conversation about reading came up. My husband shared his great dislike for reading and told us how he had a very difficult time responding successfully to the teacher’s question, … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Comprehension, Struggling Readers
Tagged Active Reading, Book Recommendations, Comprehension Strategies, Cris Tovani, Difficulty with Reading Comprehension, Essential Readings, Fake Reading, FOR-PD, Good Readers, Higher Order Thinking Questions, International Reading Association (IRA), Kathryn H. Au, Kathy Highfield, My Background, People to Follow on Twitter, Pursuit of Coherence, Question-Answer-Relationships (QAR), Reading Comprehension, Reading Doesn't Make Sense, Reading Engagement, Setting Purposes for Reading, Struggling Readers, Taffy Raphael, Twitter, TWRC, TWRCing, Videos
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Looking for a Great Way to Practice Reading Fluency? Think Poetry!
I am writing this post in celebration of national poetry month. One of my favorite elementary school memories is being read aloud to in my school library. I vividly remember sitting there, criss-cross applesauce style, laughing out loud to the … Continue reading
Posted in Fluency, Struggling Readers
Tagged Alan Katz, Articles on Teaching Reading, Book Recommendations, Bruce Lansky, Critical Analysis, Cybraryman, Dr. Seuss, External Link Categories, Fluency, Help for Parents, Interviews, Jack Prelutsky, Kathy A. Perfect, Kenn Nesbitt, Margie Palatini, Master's Program, Michael Graves, National Poetry Month, National Writing Project, Online Reading Material for Kids, People to Follow on Twitter, Poetry Anthologies, Poetry Olio, Poetry Performance Parties, Poetry Slams, Poetry/Nursery Rhymes, Poets, Radio Reading, Read 180, Read Alouds, Readers Theater, Reading Aloud to Children, Reading Rate (Speed), Reading Researchers, Reading Rockets, Reading with Expression, Repeated Readings, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Robert Pottle, S. Jay Samuels, Shel Silverstein, Struggling Readers, Timothy Rasinski, Twitter, Videos
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