Prediction in Reading

There is a link at Durham Literacy Centre, to a YouTube-posted video, about the importance of prediction in reading. It is brief, and suggests 5 dotpoints to encourage students to predict, when reading. The points are listed in the final frame of the video.
The video was made for parents (or teachers) of children, but the [...]

Reading Reading Reading – How to Teach Reading

I am aware that quite a few people who come here do so via a search for READING or something related…like how to teach reading.
I found these links which I think you will appreciate:
http://readingrockets.org/teachers
and
http://readingrockets.org/blogs/
Check them out!

Wendell’s mantra

Recent visitors come from:-
Rockville, Maryland; Singapore; Boca Raton, Florida; Meridian, Mississippi & Bronx, New York. Thanks for visiting.
Wendell has responded to one of my posts below, with a piece of (indirect) advice: his mantra is …“change what you want or change what you do”.
While I was ’sleeping in’ this morning (and this afternoon!) – today being an Easter Monday holiday, where I [...]

Good News Story

Check it out…
“It’s not often you see a 100-year-old poster boy.
But Clarence Brazier has happily taken on the role of poster boy for literacy.
Unable to read until he was 93, Brazier said …he considers “every new story a joy and every word a small blessing.” “

Anticipation

Well, here I am again – only a couple of hours later, on Saturday, and still thinking about going to work on Monday.
I think now that, even though I have established a reasonable amount of calmess in advance, I won’t really calm down till Monday is over, and maybe Tuesday as well. It is anticipation [...]