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Educational Games to Improve Reading Comprehension and Listening Comprehension

By admin | Published: June 23, 2012

Summertime and learning, what do they have to do with each other? Summer is the perfect to get in some extra learning so that your skills or your child’s skills don’t get rusty. many parents often rely on computerized games to help their children over the summer without realizing the huge benefit their child can [...]

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How to Make Kids Hate Reading « The Core Knowledge Blog

By admin | Published: May 12, 2012

Building reading instruction around comprehension strategies is not only ineffective, it also takes the joy out of reading, writes Dan Willingham in his latest blog post. The UVA cognitive scientist has long argued that while reading strategies have some value–principally in helping students understand that what they read should have some communicative value–it’s a huge [...]

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Reading could hold back third-graders

By admin | Published: March 20, 2012

By Carole Carlson March 18, 2012 9:30PM Diamond Metcalfe, 8, (right) waits for classmates to guess her clue as teacher Mollie Kirkendall (left) plays a reading comprehension game with third-graders at Marquette Elementary School in the Miller section of Gary, Ind. Friday March 2, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media storyidforme: 26634208 tmspicid: 9670709 fileheaderid: 4445238 [...]

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How to Teach the Reading Element – Sequencing

By admin | Published: January 19, 2012

Many of you have been reading my articles for some time, and know how much I stress teaching with the child in mind. but for those of you who are not familiar with my articles: Workbooks are OK for reinforcing what the student already knows, but they are not very effective in teaching new concepts [...]

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Study finds e-readers equal print for children’s reading comprehension

By admin | Published: January 14, 2012

January 11,2012 Wisconsin Rapids, WI –A recent study indicates that children who read books on digital e-readers such as the Kindle comprehend what they’ve read as well as children who read paper books. The report “Student Comprehension of Books in Kindle and Traditional Formats,” was released today by Michael Milone, Ph.D., for Renaissance Learning, a [...]

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Bedtime Stories – Why They’re Necessary for Your Child’s Healthy Development

By admin | Published: January 13, 2012

Don’t underestimate them if you are a parent and want your child to do well at school and in life Reading to your children will encourage them to get the imagination going – visualize the content of what you’re reading to them. This will help develop the visual memory which will be useful at school [...]

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Preschool Printouts

By admin | Published: December 10, 2011

This is the second in a series of articles that I am writing regarding free instructional websites. Starfall is a website that also provides instructional fun through games, videos, crafts and storytelling while instructing basic computer skills. This web site is special at instructing and fabricating reading comprehension and phonics skills. though it is designed [...]

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Casella Waste Systems, in Partnership With Vermont Public Radio, Donates 6,500 New Books to the Children’s Literacy Foundation

By admin | Published: August 30, 2011

RUTLAND, VT, Aug 19, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –On August 16th, Casella Waste Systems and Vermont Public Radio(VPR) were on hand as the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF)Summer Readers program made its latest stop in Springfield, Vt. Thisevent was one of nearly forty that have taken place this summer allover Vermont and new Hampshire. nearly sixty [...]

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