Jules Csillag

Differentiated Reading Instruction (eBook, ePUB)

Strategies and Technology Tools to Help All Students Improve

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Learn how tech tools can make it easier to differentiate reading instruction, so you can reach all of your students and help them increase their fluency and comprehension. This practical guide brings together evidence-based principles for differentiated reading instruction and user-friendly tech tools, to help middle level students grow as readers in fun, interactive, and engaging ways. You'll find out how to:

• Use text-to-speech tools to facilitate decoding and fluency development;
• Develop tech-based vocabulary lessons for direct and contextual instruction;
• Get your students engaged in research and nonfiction texts with videos, custom search engines, and interactive annotation tools;
• Differentiate your fiction reading instruction with visualization, prediction, and summarization exercises;
• Encourage students to enhance their reading through using dictation software and diverse Google tools;
• Create your own formative and summative assessments for students at all levels of reading ability.

Throughout the book, ideas are provided for both basic technology use and for more advanced applications--so no matter your comfort level with technology, you'll find strategies that you can implement in your classroom immediately.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317247647
• Artikelnr.: 45093545

Autorenporträt

Jules Csillag is a licensed speech-language pathologist, learning specialist, and a teacher of students with speech and language disabilities. She has presented at conferences such as ISTE, LDA, ILA, ASHA, and the Everyone Reading Conference.

Inhaltsangabe

Meet the Author
Introduction: What is Reading, and How Can I Help?
1. What is reading?
* From Decoding to Higher Level Thinking, and Everything in Between
* Language Comprehension and Reading Comprehension
* Reading and the Brain
2. Teachers' Changing Roles
3. How Technology and Reading are an Ideal Match
4. How to Use this Book
5. A Note about the Technology in this Book
Chapter 1: What Do You Mean by "Differentiation"?
6. Long Ago and Far Away, the Greeks Warned Us
7. Differentiation vs Tracking
8. Types of Differentiation
* Differentiation by Interest
* Differentiation by "Learning Style"
* Differentiation by Readiness
9. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Differentiation: Two Sides of the
Same Coin
* Differentiation by UDL Categories
* Group Names, Group Members, and Group Selection
10. Differentiation and the Law
11. Frameworks for Differentiation
12. Reflection
Chapter 2: What Do Your Students Know? Formative Assessments for
Differentiation
13. Growth Mindset
14. How it Works and How Technology can Help
15. Formative Assessment via Forms & Quizzes
* Google Forms and Sheets
* Other Options for Collecting Formative Assessments via Forms &
Quizzes (LMS & more)
16. Formative Assessment via Audio and Video Recordings
* Create a Screen recording, Voice recording, and/or Video recording
17. Formative Assessment via Sorting Activities
18. Reflection
Chapter 3: What Does This Say? Differentiating for Decoding and Reading
Fluency
19. Why Decoding and Fluency Matter
20. What to Expect: Typical Decoding and Fluency Development
21. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
22. How Technology Can Help (and How it Can't)
23. Text-to-Speech Tools
* Built-in Tools
* Text-to-Speech Tools with Additional Features
* Turning Images into Text: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
* Podcasts for Some, or Podcasts for All
* eBooks & Audiobooks
* Closed Captioning for Videos
24. Providing Audio Instructions and Feedback for Students
25. Student-Generated Voice and Audio Recordings to Enhance Fluency
26. Reflection
Chapter 4: What Does This Mean? Part 1: Differentiating Vocabulary
Instruction
* Two approaches to Instruction: Direct and Contextual
* Tools for Direct Instruction
* Tools for Contextual Instruction
* Tools that can be used for either approach (& how)
* Reflection
Chapter 5: What Does This Mean? Part 2: Differentiating During the Research
Process and Reading Nonfiction
27. Why Reading Nonfiction Matters
28. What Reading Nonfiction Entails
* Digital Literacy
29. Videos
* Creating a YouTube Playlist
30. Creating Custom Search Engines
31. Annotation Tools
* Using DocentEDU
* Annotating Multiple Sources
32. Differentiated Complexity
33. Summaries
34. Reflection
Chapter 6: What Does This Mean? Part 3: Differentiating During Fiction
Reading
35. Why Fiction Matters
36. What Reading Fiction Entails
37. Visualization Tools
38. Explicit Text Structure Instruction & Inferences
39. Interactive Units
* Exemplars of Interactive Units
* Make Your Own!
40. Summaries
41. Reflection
Chapter 7: Can You Tell Me About It? Differentiating Writing (to Help
Reading Comprehension)
42. Why Writing Matters for Reading
43. What Writing (to Read) Entails
44. Speech-to-Text
* Built-in Tools
* Other Dictation Software
45. Word Prediction
46. Scaffolds: Cloze Tasks, Mnemonics, and Questions
47. Reflection
Chapter 8: How Much Do You Know? Differentiating Summative Assessments
* Putting it all Together
* Quiz-creation (Review)
* Slideshow creation tools (Review & Some New Ideas)
* Rubrics
* Infographic Generators
* Reflection