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The End of Print as We Know It?
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
As far as reading goes, while I still read books, I now spend copious amounts of time reading material on the Internet - much more than I do reading from the pages of reference books or magazines. It's amazing to me that in fewer than a dozen years of my life, my experience of text has changed so drastically that now much of it happens electronically.
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Let’s Go Learn Co-Founder Featured in District Administration Article
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Math, Assessments, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Experts, Richard D. McCallum, Ph.D.,
District Administration has released an article highlighting the need for diagnostic assessment in the classroom. Featured in their article is Dr. Richard McCallum, co-founder of Let's Go Learn. (0) Comments • Permalink
Resolution for the Year of the Rat
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Instruction, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
Let us hold on to our promises to kids – for California, to really make this the “Year of Education,” for the U.K. to encourage others to make this the “National Year of Reading” – and stop for a moment and make a resolution to see education as something beyond the books, classroom lessons, and homework assignments – to see the face of real children whose lives affect us and are affected by us. Let’s make this year, perhaps this era, one for the prosperity of our children and youth. (0) Comments • Permalink
Alternate Materials: Engaging the Reluctant Reader
Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Instruction, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Anne-Evan Williams, Dir. Of Educational Development, Let’s Go Learn,
When it comes down to it, whether our kids are reading "the classics" or Sports Illustrated for Kids shouldn't be our greatest concern. Really, the question is whether they are reading at all. And if we can find materials to engage them, they will!
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Freedom Writers
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Instruction, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
As I see it, when kids truly want to learn something - especially from curricula that encourage them to deal with real life issues like race and violence, while helping them develop strong enough literacy skills to make it to college - we do them more of a disservice by not allowing them to explore those materials. (0) Comments • Permalink
Should Reading Be So Hard?
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Instruction, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
With the drudgery of some reading programs which employ rote tasks that aren't applicable to authentic and meaningful textual experiences, I fear that we make reading much harder for kids than it should be... (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink