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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Articles on Teaching Reading by PREL
When I began in the master’s program for teaching reading, I ran across many unfamiliar words. I also read about areas of teaching reading for which I knew the basics, but did not have enough background knowledge to fully understand … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolescent Literacy, Articles on Teaching Reading, Assessment, Background Knowledge, Becoming a Reading Specialist, English Language Learners (ELLs), External Link Categories, Five Pillars of Reading, Fluency, Help for Parents, Master's Program, My Background, Pacific Resources for Education & Learning (PREL), Phonemic Awareness, Phonics/Decoding, Read Alouds, Reading Aloud to Children, Reading Comprehension, Reading in the Middle Grades, Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ), Reading the Research, Struggling Readers, The Reading Teacher, Vocabulary, Word Consciousness
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