Interactive English Reader

[Sabel Kantah]

Onceupon a time I woke up with an idea for a display. A huge flow chart that took up an entire wall, and asked readers questions about their reading preferences. As they worked their way down the chart, they would have to decide for themselves what kind of book they wanted to read, and eventually would find themselves at an envelope with a booklist. This week I was able to make that display a reality at The Cambridge Idea Exchange!

Young Adult Librarian, Bonnie Svitavsky added the flow chart to a large, horizontal space in the Puyallup Public Library (WA) Teen Zone. I love how it looks webbed out in different directions, and the addition of cat photos to the envelopes.

The Reading by Design Reading Deck interactive learning tool allows interventionists to create reading decks for each student group. Region 4 will extend the interactive tools supporting Reading by Design until further notice. Soon, the interactive learning tool will switch to a fee-based product. The cost will be $75.00 per teacher for a yearly subscription for use of the interactive tools. For districts wishing to obtain 100 or more subscriptions, the cost will be $65.00 per teacher for the yearly subscription. There is a link for feedback within the interactives, and we would appreciate hearing from you and learning more about your experiences with these tools.

When I was teaching, I always loved using interactive readers. They are a great tool to help improve reading skills and increase vocabulary. My new freebie, I See Ocean Animals Interactive Reader, allows students to do both of these things while learning about ocean animals. Animal words can be tricky and this resource will help students to better retain what they are learning. Another benefit of this Ocean Animal Interactive Reader is that it improves fine motor control in young kids, which is critical when they are learning to write. Are you looking for more ocean ideas, activities, and printables to do at home or in the classroom? If so click here.

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*Effective reading instruction involves a combination of powerful instructional settings. This post is the next in our "What is...?" series, where we define each instructional context that makes up a coherent literacy system.

Interactive read-aloud is a whole-group instructional context in which you read aloud a selected text to the whole class, occasionally and selectively pausing for conversation. Students think about, talk about, and respond to the text as a whole group or in pairs, triads, or quads. Both reader and listeners actively process the language, ideas, and meaning of the text.

Be sure all students are comfortably seated in the whole-group area and can easily see and hear the text being read aloud. Sit at the front while students are clustered facing you. Alternatively, have students sit on chairs in a horseshoe shape. Allow space for students to turn and talk to each other.

Interactive read-aloud is the foundation for instruction in your classroom. It provides rich opportunities for every student to expand background knowledge, experience age-appropriate and grade-appropriate text, and learn a variety of ways to think deeply and use academic language to talk about an engaging text.

Automatic item generation (AIG) has the potential to greatly expand the number of items for educational assessments, while simultaneously allowing for a more construct-driven approach to item development. However, the traditional item modeling approach in AIG is limited in scope to content areas that are relatively easy to model (such as math problems), and depends on highly skilled content experts to create each model. In this paper we describe the interactive reading task, a transformer-based deep language modeling approach for creating reading comprehension assessments. This approach allows a fully automated process for the creation of source passages together with a wide range of comprehension questions about the passages. The format of the questions allows automatic scoring of responses with high fidelity (e.g., selected response questions). We present the results of a large-scale pilot of the interactive reading task, with hundreds of passages and thousands of questions. These passages were administered as part of the practice test of the Duolingo English Test. Human review of the materials and psychometric analyses of test taker results demonstrate the feasibility of this approach for automatic creation of complex educational assessments.

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Happy almost end of summer! This is my last week of complete freedom. Next week the school opens up for teachers to begin setting up their rooms and the following week is work week. With the anticipation of a new school year, I have been thinking a lot about how I want to structure and improve my literacy block. I thought I would share the interactive notebook that my students and I use to keep track of our skills. The pictures below are from the notebook that I keep along with the students. We also will include grammar activities and notes in our notebooks, but the pictures are just of the reading portion. Enjoy!

Chynell,

This blog post has been such a big help for me! I have been looking for ways to make my students' journals more student friendly and engaging. Thanks,

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Celizarnas,

When you do the anchor charts in the interactive reading notebooks do you do them as a whole class? I am a coach and a teacher and I were thinking about doing them as a small group because the class as a whole seems like it would take too long. We teach 5th graders, but in an urban low poverty community. Any suggestions?

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If your child loved The Book With No Pictures, slip this title into their storytime stack. The funny, engaging text directly involves the reader in the story, and the cartoon-style illustrations will keep reluctant readers coming back for more.

The narrator of this book insists that the unicorn, dinosaur, and shark are the stars of this story. However, the animals have doubts and love arguing about their roles. This hilarious and interactive story is perfect for wiggly little ones who love to laugh.

Toddlers who feel agitated or anxious will benefit from this interactive mindfulness book. With the help of adorable animal characters, children will learn how to control their breath and self-soothe.

Select books that have content that is interesting to young children and is age-appropriate. Look for books that have illustrations that are engaging and appealing. Two effective ways to promote language and literacy skills is through interactive shared book reading and dialogic reading (Trivette & Dunst, 2007).

Before reading the story, the teacher can point to the title or ask the children to make a prediction on what they think will happen during the story. During the interactive shared book reading, the teacher makes comments and poses questions about the story. Children are encouraged to share their ideas about the story. After the reading, the teacher and children discuss the story and make meaningful connections. The children are asked to reflect on how the story relates to their own world and experiences.

There are a variety of prompts that can be used to promote discussion about a story. The acronym CROWD can help you remember five types of prompts. The following examples could be used with the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

It is important to prepare for your book reading in advance. Take time to become comfortable with the book and story. Determine which prompts you will use prior to the book reading. You do not need to use all of the different prompts during one book reading. It is important to prepare for your book reading in advance. Take time to become comfortable with the book and story. Determine which prompts you will use prior to the book reading. You do not need to use all of the different prompts during one book reading.

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