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Whooo’s Reading is a great app for motivating, monitoring, and tracking student progress. Students can earn coins and go to the owl store for upgrading their owls. Students have many choices and it’s easy to track their progress.

Whooo’s Reading Comprehension questions are based on Common Core Education Standards and are set up in a way that students can deepen their critical reading skills. The app is a great and accessible tool for teachers wishing to keep up with their students’ process of reading comprehension.

Accelerating your students’writing and reading comprehension skills is now easier and more authentic than ever before. Whooo’s Reading lets your students think independently through open-ended quizzes and questions for every grade’s book, rather than filling in D, C, B, or A.

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By the End of Kindergarten:

• • Children have an understanding of how our alphabetic language works. They are learning that sounds and letters are related.
  • Children may be able to locate and begin to use some high-frequency words from shared reading and writing books that have been added to a class word wall.

  In the following video, Dr. R. Marc Crundwell talks about the Development Continuum of Reading:

  By the End of First Grade:

  Phonics skills are taken from words that children encounter in their reading and words they commonly use in their writing.

  They include:

  • High-frequency sight words, many of which do not follow spelling patterns, are often learned through the use of a word wall. For more information see Sight Word section of this web site.
  • Words with consonant digraphs and have a known word for each digraph (sh, ch, th).
    Words with the most common word families. For more information see High Utility Word Families.

   

• By the End of Second/Third Grade:

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Phonemic awareness is an oral language skill. It is the awareness that phonemes exist as abstractable and manipulative components of spoken language. It is not phonics, and it is more than auditory discrimination. In the following video, Peggy Semingson talks about the terminology surrounding emergent and beginning reading teaching. She addresses the distinctions and definitions of phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, and phonics:

Phonemic Awareness Tasks

In short, children have learned to communicate effectively.
Talking to and with children develops their receptive and expressive skills using this language. As they refine and extend their language skills, children learn new words, new meanings for familiar words, and new ways of saying things.

They develop an awareness of the sounds that make up spoken words and the ability to manipulate those sounds known as phonemic awareness. Let’s take a look at the most common examples of Phonemic Awareness:

For students to understand different topics, it is of utmost importance to have a teacher who may be well equipped with all those skills that are essential to achieving the task. Teaching is a respected profession and it has become rewarding as well.

But, it is important for teachers to have degrees in a specific field. For instance, a degree pertaining to early childhood education is getting quite popular today. The reason for this popularity is that parents don’t have time to deal with the different needs of their toddlers and young ones. That’s why they prefer to get in touch with a school for the admission of their child.

What will be the responsibilities? Most of these schools and centers offer a certain level of facilities for children. They make sure that children get the opportunity to stay involved in different constructive activities. Generally, teachers are hired to work with children to make them knowledgeable. A teacher having knowledge about early childhood education may start his job by dealing with infants.

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Michael Heggerty was a great veteran educator at the elementary level. He was active in the education world for over 30 years, of which 28 as a classroom teacher. All through his life, Dr. Heggerty has always been life-long learning himself and his CV includes two master credentials and one doctorate degrees.

When Dr. Heggerty was a 1st-grade teacher, he was working on a research project about the key role phonemic awareness plays in the process of how to acquire and master reading skills best. For the succeeding years, he continued his research and started to develop materials for a consistent and efficient curriculum for phonemic awareness development.

Michael Heggerty went on to (in 2003) establish Literacy Resources Inc. and he published “Phonemic Awareness”, his first version of the now so well-known curriculum for phonemic awareness lessons. The full title read: “Phonemic Awareness, the Skills To Help Students Succeed! This was Heggerty’s finished product of his classroom work and research. Trough the years, Dr. Heggerty has presented his research results and his highly acclaimed instructional design at numerous conferences and other meetings.

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Reading Wonders is a fully digitalized reading education program that is developed in line with the Common Core Education Standards for Reading English. Every component of the program combines research-based learning methods and instruction with lots of new tools to meet contemporary education requirements and challenges. All components of the program and all lessons are designed for efficiently and effectively meeting the Common Core Standards.

Reading Wonders is an English Language program developed by education publisher McGraw-Hill for Kindergarten-K–6. The Wonders Literacy Program offers research-based literacy education, a great scaffolded program for student success, as well as a well-designed parent section with updates and weekly newsletters.

The Wonders program is in line with the Common Core Standards that are introduced in and accepted by most American states and the program includes many materials that allow teachers to personalize their instruction, guide small group or whole group learning, and to focus on writing at the same time.

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Poor comprehenders often suffer from what experts call learned helplessness. Some children who struggle when they are learning how to read develop a negative perception of themselves as learners.

This self- concept of being helpless in a learning situation leads the struggling reader to believe that he/she has little or no internal control over success and failure. They underestimate their ability and expect to do poorly in future learning situations.

These expectations of failure often lead to poor motivation, which in turn leads to inactive learning meaning they do not engage in strategic efforts to promote effective learning. This inaction leads to more failure, which confirms their negative perception of themselves as learners. A child’s personal beliefs about himself/herself as a learner does influence how a child addresses and solves problems that they encounter when comprehending.

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When you want to reduce your ppt size, you may very well reduce the size of your files. With PowerPoint images, you will make the file size of your presentations quite large, particularly when did embed high-resolution photos and images. To compress the file size of your PowerPoint presentation, you may begin to optimize your photos and images.

To do so, follow these steps to reduce the size of your photos and images: (For Windows/Microsoft PowerPoint ’10, ’13, and ’16)

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A Brief History of Online Learning
Online education, also known as distance learning or web-based learning, is not as new as you might think. The origins of distance learning can be traced back to a British man by the name of Sir Isaac Pitman.

In 1840, Pitman advertised a correspondence course in the penny press and within five years had 10,000 customers across the British Empire taking shorthand lessons by mail. By 1926, there was an established market for mail-order education in the United States, with some 300 private correspondence schools in operation.

Late in the century, distance education really took off as a result of emerging video and CD-ROM technologies. But it was the development of the Internet, a new universal medium of interaction, which really fueled the evolution of online education. E-learning is clearly here to stay – according to IDC, the U.S. corporate market for online learning is projected to grow from $6.2 billion in 2018 to $21 billion by 2023.

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A common question is “Where do you get your stories from”.  The simple answer is it’s just stuff that happens.  Anything that happens to you can be turned into a useful story, it’s just a question of how you look at it, how you tease out the tacit messages and the metaphors in a series of events to fit a particular context.

So the story I tell in this video is based on a very simple event that lasted for less than half an hour.  It involves two characters and is something that could happen to anyone.  Yet this is a story that has been incredibly useful in at least three different contexts.

I’ve told the same story: in a therapeutic context, as a metaphor in trance; in social situations as a fun, entertaining, anecdote that demonstrates my values; and as a teaching tale for children.

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