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CBMs with a Twist: Reading is About More Than the Speed

CBMs with a Twist: Reading is About More Than the Speed

By Rita Platt Today in almost every elementary school in every state in America, teachers are required (or at least highly encouraged) to use curriculum […]

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Engaging African American Boys with High Quality Literature

Engaging African American Boys with High Quality Literature

By Rita Platt The suggestions below are great books for everyone. This post, however, puts the lens on readers who are African American boys. If we […]

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High/Low Books to Engage Reluctant Readers from 4th Grade Through High School

High/Low Books to Engage Reluctant Readers from 4th Grade Through High School

By Rita Platt If we want reluctant readers to read we have to give them books they want to read. That means helping them find […]

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AR Killed My Dog and Now It’s Coming for YOU! A Defense of Accelerated Reader and a Plea for Less Drama

AR Killed My Dog and Now It’s Coming for YOU! A Defense of Accelerated Reader and a Plea for Less Drama

Education 2.0, Featured Articles August 20, 2014 at 12:47 am 10 comments

By Rita Platt With John Wolfe Well, I’ve done it. I’ve had a Twitter-feud. You know you’re not going  to change anyone’s mind by arguing […]

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Why Sherlock Holmes was wrong, and what you should do about it

Why Sherlock Holmes was wrong, and what you should do about it

The Edge of Education July 3, 2013 at 9:39 am Comments are Disabled

In the story, “A Study in Scarlet,” while introducing one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote (and Sherlock […]

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Fiction readers’ secret advantage

Fiction readers’ secret advantage

The Edge of Education July 2, 2013 at 9:47 am 4 comments

Scientists are beginning to uncover some powerful benefits of reading fiction. Reduced stress, deeper sleep and less memory loss but also recent neuroscientists have also discovered language found in fiction gives our brains a unique work out—giving those who read it, a distinct advantage over those who don’t.

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Don’t Throw Out Your Leveled Libraries Yet!  Text Complexity and Helping Students Learn to Pick “Just-Right” Books

Don’t Throw Out Your Leveled Libraries Yet! Text Complexity and Helping Students Learn to Pick “Just-Right” Books

Featured Articles February 5, 2013 at 10:24 pm 4 comments

By: Rita Platt Recently I was at a meeting for reading specialists when the concept of level-appropriate texts came up. Much to my surprise several […]

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The Impact of Active Rhyming Strategies

The Impact of Active Rhyming Strategies

Action Research, Featured Articles January 12, 2013 at 3:16 pm 1 comment

There is a movement to teach children to read at a younger age and it may help to incorporate short periods of intentional training every day in the area of rhyming in order to move along the continuum of learning in a reasonable, developmentally appropriate manner. The focus and goal of this action research project was to increase students’ understanding and use of rhyming words as a pre-literacy skill.

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The teenage brain: Navigating a construction zone

The teenage brain: Navigating a construction zone

Got Brains?, The Edge of Education October 26, 2012 at 12:09 pm 1 comment

It’s been about eight weeks now since school has started—long enough for teachers to begin to get a handle on what students know and are […]

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Rhyming and Folk Tales

Annotations August 13, 2012 at 2:57 pm Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Andrea Wondra Philip Clarkson gives a convincing argument for using rhyming and folk tales to help children comprehend mathematical problems.  He makes […]

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