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Updating Promising Practices in Reading through Technology

Updating Promising Practices in Reading through Technology. Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, CITEd Bridget Dalton, CAST Online Event 5/17/07. House Keeping. Quick Polling Type in a Response Type messages (Q &A) into chat area Q & A via Email - eventquestion@wested.org

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Updating Promising Practices in Reading through Technology

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  1. Updating Promising Practices in Reading through Technology Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, CITEd Bridget Dalton, CAST Online Event 5/17/07

  2. House Keeping • Quick Polling • Type in a Response • Type messages (Q &A) into chat area • Q & A via Email - eventquestion@wested.org • Demos via Application Sharing

  3. Poll: Who is on the webcast? • SEA/LEA Staff • School/ District Administrator • Curriculum /Technology Coordinator • Staff Developer • Teacher – General/Special Ed. • TA Provider • Other

  4. Tech-based Approaches Tech-based reading tools, materials, and approaches can be used to: • Increase access to print and content • Create supportive materials • Foster engagement • Support reading achievement (word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension)

  5. Research shows that Text-to-Speech: • Promotes access to text for wide reading • Contributes to word recognition • Provides a multisensory experience (hearing, seeing, subvocalizing) • Can be used to recreate the practice of repeated readings or neurological impress method (best accomplished with recorded human narration)

  6. Poll Do you have TTS available for any student upon request? per teacher request? per IEP requirement? not at all?

  7. Open ended question How are you using TTS in your reading instruction?

  8. Research shows that adapted and supported text: • Yields comprehension advantages to struggling readers • Can reinforce teacher-taught strategies • Is not always used strategically by students

  9. eText Supports: • Text to speech or recorded human narration • Highlighting of spoken text (dynamic or by “chunk”) • Highlighters • Annotation features • Capacity to extract notes to a word processor • Linked dictionaries and other reference tools • Translation dictionaries • Related study guides • Outline tools and advance organizers • Prompts for questioning or reflecting, and • Agents or virtual guides

  10. Open ended question Which e-text features do your students find most helpful and why?

  11. Text to Speech and Adapted Text Resources • www.ReadPlease.com • NaturalReader.com • www.nasaexplores.com/index.php • www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html • Start to Finish books from Don Johnston, Inc.

  12. www.readplease.com

  13. Research resources for tech-based approaches: • Articles in Reading Research Quarterly (2007) V42(1) Jan/Feb/March on using assistive technology to ameliorate reading difficulties: • The Role of Instructional Design in Assistive Technology Research and Development by Randall Boone and Kyle Higgins • Assistive Technology in the Reading Clinic: Its Emerging Potential by Michael McKenna and Sharon Walpole • Technology-enhanced Reading Performance: Defining a Research Agenda by Dave Edyburn • Supported eText: Assistive Technology Through Text Transformations by Lynne Anderson-Inman and Mark Horney • Chapter from the Handbook of Special Education Technology Research and Practice (2005) edited by D. Edyburn, K. Higgins, and R. Boone: • Using Technology to Support Struggling Readers: A Review of the Research by Nicole Strangman and Bridget Dalton • Research in Brief articles on the instructional uses of multimedia materials • http://www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id=141

  14. Title: Screenshot of NASA Explores 5-8 Page

  15. Title: Screenshot of NASA Explores 9-12 Page

  16. Screenshot of Don Johnston, Inc. Start-to-Finish Product Page

  17. Poll Where do you learn about reading research and new products? • Conferences • Marketing/promotional materials • Colleagues • Professional journals and websites • Surfing the Internet • Other

  18. Screenshot of CITEd Home Page

  19. Poll Have you visited the Reading or Math matrix before? • Yes • No

  20. Screenshot of www.TechMatrix.org

  21. Reading Matrix Converting Text to Speech Page

  22. Reading Matrix Product Profile Page for CoolSpeech 4.0

  23. Vocabulary • Strongest predictor of reading comprehension • Good readers know many more words than struggling readers; the gap widens over time • Academic vocabulary is particularly challenging for students who are English Language Learners

  24. Effective methods of improving vocabulary: • Read a lot • Direct instruction of word meanings • Word learning strategies, such as using context clues, morphological knowledge, etc.

  25. How technology can support vocabulary: • Increase amount of reading • ensure access to age and interest appropriate text with the support of audio books and text-to-speech tools • Use multimedia to show and tell word meaning • a picture can be worth 1000 words • Use just-in-time support for vocabulary meaning • online dictionaries and tools • Encourage active learning • multimedia glossary template ppt

  26. Open ended question Are you currently using any technology-based approach to teaching or reinforcing vocabulary? If so, what?

  27. Glossary Title Subtitle By Author Date

  28. Word: Definition image image • Personal association: • Importance: • Source:

  29. Words, words, words A collection of words that are important to me By Maria H.

  30. Camouflage: to hide by disguise • Personal association: I love to snorkel. So many fish are able to blend into their surroundings so that you don’t see them until they move. • Importance:Camouflage is an important survival technique. Prey can hide from their predators. It’s also a hunting technique. • Source: I found this word in a National Geographic article on coral reef fish.

  31. Camouflage: to disguise so that you cannot be seen easily • Personal association: I have Army fatigue pants that are camouflage. • Importance: Soldiers need to be able to hide their position from the enemy, so they wear camouflage uniforms. • Source: Blog on the Iraqi war. Author: Mike M.

  32. www.voycabulary.com for text (does not handle media well)

  33. http://www.visualthesaurus.com

  34. wikiwords www.wikiwords.org

  35. Poll How familiar are you with teaching reading comprehension strategies? Very Somewhat Unfamiliar

  36. Comprehension Strategies • Developing strategic readers • applying strategies flexibly • Monitoring understanding and self correcting • Learning how to learn • Introducing CAST’s BookBuilder! http://bookbuilder.cast.org/

  37. bookbuilder.cast.org/ http://bookbuilder.cast.org/

  38. Technical Assistance Page from www.cited.org

  39. Questions? Feedback? Email us at cited@air.org

  40. Next Steps: Event Archive • http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/events/readingthroughtech

  41. Next Steps:Survey http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/events/readingthroughtech/survey.htm

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