If you have students who struggle with comprehension, it may be that their reading rate is too slow. Reading experts tell us that anything below 90 words per minute is probably too slow for understanding what we read. Some students may not realize that experienced readers read in groups of words, or chunks. Yet this [...]
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Increase Student Reading Speed with Eyercize – Free Online Tool
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Reading, Teaching
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How to Adopt an Antediluvian Word
April 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Lessons, Teaching, Writing
Your students can prevent words like succisive, welmish or alogotrophy from fading into obscurity by adopting them through the Save the Words web site. When students visit Save the Words, they are confronted with a wall of lonely, unused words crying out for new homes. Literally. They cry out. Really. Try it. As the Save [...]
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Educational Passion: A Meditation
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Teaching
Yesterday I participated in two online experiences for the first time: a Twitter discussion using the hashtag #edchat, and a live webinar featuring Ken Robinson, author of The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. Both experiences revolved around the word passion (a rather appropriate concept in the days leading up to Easter), and in [...]
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