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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How I Lost My Reading Specialist Position & What Makes a Good Literacy Coach?
I taught first grade for five years in a school where the majority of students were second language learners who qualified for free and reduced lunch. After realizing I needed to know more about teaching reading more effectively, I took … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming a Reading Specialist, My Background
Tagged Becoming a Reading Specialist, Classroom Observations, Evaluations, Facebook, Fidelity, First Grade, Interviewing, Literacy Coaches, Master's Program, My Background, My Personal Learning Network (PLN), Nifty Thrifty Fifty, Principals, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), Pull-outs, Question-Answer-Relationships (QAR), QuickReads, Read 180, Reading Comprehension, Reading Conferences & Conventions, Title 1 Classrooms, Tutoring, Twitter
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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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Revisiting Silent Reading: New Directions for Teachers and Researchers (International Reading Association Institute #6, Chicago 2010): Part Six
This is the final part of my reflections on the International Reading Association’s Institute called, “Revisiting Silent Reading: New Directions for Teachers and Researchers” that was held in Chicago on April 25, 2010. You can find part one here. In … Continue reading
Posted in Adolescent Literacy, IRA's 55th Annual Convention - 2010, Silent Reading
Tagged Access, Achievement Gap, Adaptive Scaffolds, Adolescent Readers, Articles on Teaching Reading, Assessment, Audiobooks, Cloze Assessments, Comprehension (Online vs. Printed Text), Comprehension Strategies, Connectedness, Dropout Factories, Early Literacy, Elfrieda "Freddy" H. Hiebert, High School Dropout Rates, International Reading Association (IRA), Intervention Programs, IRA's 55th Annual Convention - 2010, Katherine Bach, Lexile.com, Matching Texts to Readers, Maze Assessments, My Background, Nation's Report Card, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Presenter Handouts, Read 180, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Conferences & Conventions, Reading Engagement, Reading Online, Reading Plus, Reading Researchers, Silent Reading, Statistics, Strategic Scaffolds, Struggling Readers, Technology, TextProject.org, The Alliance for Excellent Education, TWRCr, Vocabulary, Weekly Reader Digital Edition
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Revisiting Silent Reading: New Directions for Teachers and Researchers (International Reading Association Institute #6, Chicago 2010): Part Two
This is part two of my reflections on the International Reading Association’s Institute called, “Revisiting Silent Reading: New Directions for Teachers and Researchers” that was held in Chicago on April 25, 2010. You can find part one here. In that … Continue reading
Posted in IRA's 55th Annual Convention - 2010, Silent Reading
Tagged Articles on Teaching Reading, Assessment, Background Knowledge, Brain Energy, Cognitive Load Theory, D. Laberge, D. Ray Reutzel, Definitions, E. D. Hirsch, Elfrieda "Freddy" H. Hiebert, External Link Categories, Eye Fixations, Eye Movement Tracking, Eye Movements, Eye Saccades, Fluency, International Reading Association (IRA), Intervention Programs, IRA's 55th Annual Convention - 2010, National Reading Panel (NRP), Phonics/Decoding, Presenter Handouts, Reading Comprehension, Reading Conferences & Conventions, Reading Plus, Reading Researchers, Research, S. Jay Samuels, Silent Reading, Struggling Readers, TextProject.org, Timothy Rasinski, Visagraph III
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