This tool provides personalized reading comprehension exercises for K-12 and ESL students. Claiming 18 million students, 700,000 teachers, and 40,000 schools around the world as benefitting from the program, its purpose is to improve reading comprehension through adaptive, effective, easy, and fun reading exercises and worksheets. Started in 2010 in a classroom by a teacher who struggled to find materials that were actually appropriate for the levels of his students (he decided to just make the resources himself), ReadTheory has grown tremendously since those early days. A team of writers and engineers have worked tirelessly to bring teachers everywhere what they’re really looking for. This teacher-focused approach (video here) goes far in eliminating achievement gaps and improving state assessments for...
I vividly remember analog media and the switch to digital. Sometimes I’m still amazed that I can check a word’s definition by tapping on it. As a public elementary school student in the 1990s, to define an unfamiliar word, I would have needed to walk to a heavy dictionary on the other side of the room. My disability would have made this time-consuming and dangerous, if not impossible. So, instead, I relied on shortcuts that often hindered my vocabulary and reading comprehension. Note: I’m not an educator or a parent. So, this is strictly my own perspective as an adult writer remembering her childhood. My elementary school teachers were excellent, so the few tips that didn’t work for me stick...
TL;DR: Want to learn a new language (or two or three)? As of Jan. 18, Mashable readers can get a lifetime subscription to Babbel language learning for $225 — that's 55% in savings.We've all faced some harsh realities in recent years. With changes coming fast and furiously, it has caused some of us to rethink some of our life choices. For example, maybe you wished you had joined drama in high school or taken a new language seriously.According to a Federal Reserve survey, almost 40 percent of American college graduates say they have misgivings about their choice of a major, according to a Federal Reserve survey. Most dissatisfied with their decisions were humanities and arts majors. If that sounds a little...
Do you struggle to engage your students in reading comprehension practice? I have got the solution for you! Today I'm sharing these fun reading comprehension coloring worksheets that will keep your students engaged while increasing their reading comprehension skills! I promise that they will beg for more! Reading Comprehension Worksheets Students Will Beg For These Arctic animal-themed reading comprehension worksheets with coloring pages encourage students to use skills and strategies that help them make meaning of what they read. The matching coloring worksheets require students to color based on their answer choice. What student doesn’t love to color, right? Trust me when I say students love these activities! They don’t want to color their arctic animal pictures incorrectly so they...
What are instructional scaffolds? Instructional scaffolds are temporary tools that help students move from what they already know to what they cannot yet do on their own. Think of them as you would training wheels. A child may be able to ride a tricycle, but just doesn’t have the balance yet to ride a bicycle. Training wheels are a tool that helps the child bridge the gap between the two types of cycles. What are some examples of these types of tools? Some of our favorites are: Auditory Feedback Phones: We find this device particularly helpful for students who cannot yet read silently. Whisper reading into the phone helps them drown out ambient noise and focus on their own reading....
