Languages, ICT, education

When confronted with a reading text, particularly one that's authentic, or semi-authentic, it's easy for them to think; 'I haven't got enough grammar or vocabulary' or 'I can't read English.'

Among Instructional Designers, Bloom's Taxonomy is well-known tool for writing lesson objectives and learning standards. It provides a variety of outcomes we expect students to display after learning has occurred. Yet, its use does not need to stop there. In fact, Bloom himself saw his taxonomy of objectives as something greater; he believed the classifications could be used as a common  language, opening up lines of communication between persons about what they were learning. (Krathwohl, 2002). Thus, teachers, parents, story-hour volunteers; anyone who reads aloud to an audience, or who assesses a reader's comprehension, can utilize Bloom's Taxonomy to discuss the learning that has occurred.

Finding text evidence seems easy enough. Technically, any sentence is text evidence. The trick is to get students to find the right evidence and use it effectively. These eight strategies strengthen students' ability to find and use evidence from nonfiction text: ...

Letting children choose what they want to read helps foster a lifelong love for reading. 

The Kids & Family Reading Report surveyed 1,026 parents of  US children aged six to 17, plus one child aged six to 17 from the same household. The biannual report is conducted by Scholastic and managed by YouGov, using GfK’s KnowledgePanel.

Many reports and research studies have documented the adolescent reading challenge -- too many students are unable to learn and build new knowledge from the texts used in their subject matter classrooms. In addition to the challenges of general comprehension, reading in a subject area presents additional challenges that many students are unable to tackle on their own. 

If you're one of countless people who don't make a habit of reading regularly, you might be missing out: reading has a significant number of benefits, and just a few benefits of them are listed below.

When you engage your English-language learners through the power, fun, and sharing of narrative, the formal elements of language acquisition will follow more easily.

A 5-day series focused on multi-sensory activities for teaching reading to those who struggle {and those that don't}.

Teachers share their recommendations for interactive reading strategies to use in the classroom. Videos are included to show the strategies in action.

Apart from English fluency practice, the area most students want to concentrate on is improving and expanding their English vocabulary. The activities we normally do together vary from collocations, idiomatic expressions, word formation, phrasal verbs, and identifying vocabulary in reading texts. ...

Engage young readers by showing them the value of composing and sending tweets to authors whose books they've enjoyed during a read-aloud.

Readers read strategically only when they have difficulty making sense of a text. ...

Close reading can be drudgery, or it can be fun! Here's how to create close reading lessons that have your students begging for more.

Texts have always played an integral part in classroom learning, for skills development and as contexts for language study. It has long been acknowledged that choosing texts that are interesting and motivating is key, but we also need to ensure rich and meaningful content. ...

One thing that is almost certain as kids are reading aloud to us is they will come across words they do not know. Even if we pick out “just right” books for them, there will be a few unknown words in the text. (Please note: if kids have too many words that are unknown, the …