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Read-Alouds for Older Students — Worth it or Waste of Time?
Read more: Read-Alouds for Older Students — Worth it or Waste of Time?Evaluating the impact of read-alouds for older students (grades 4+) Just as educators like you use data for instructional decision-making, Kids Read Now turned to current research to answer the question: Is reading aloud to students after K-3 really worth it, or are we simply wasting valuable instructional time? Research is clear about the benefits…
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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 3: Fluency Influences
Read more: Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 3: Fluency InfluencesDon’t leave fluency behind — it matters more than you think Congrats, literacy leaders! You’ve officially made it halfway through the Latest in Literacy blog’s series on high-impact influences that accelerate reading. You’re just in time, no doubt, to tweak your schools’ trajectories before spring benchmarking and EOY assessments. In our previous article, you zoomed…
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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 2: Comprehension Influences
Read more: Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 2: Comprehension InfluencesRacing toward assessments, literacy leaders can strategically accelerate reading — now! In our previous article, we dipped into the deep well of research studied by John Hattie in his groundbreaking meta-analyses, called Visible Learning. Today, you’ll dive deeper into one of the most important aspects of successful literacy. In fact, it might be the most…
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Chat GPT and Education: A KRN Board Member’s Perspective
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Literacy Acceleration Playbook
Read more: Literacy Acceleration PlaybookWin. Excel. Beat a personal best. These are the mindsets of athletes. Even those who are not athletes know that in order to meet goals such as winning or surpassing a personal record one must practice, put in hard work, train, learn technique, and take feedback to help refine performance. In addition to the aforementioned…
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Learn-to-Learn
Read more: Learn-to-LearnThe team at Learn-to-Learn has over 40 years of experience in coaching, educating, and supporting others to become better learners. Their passion is to freely support fellow humans in discovering and expressing their best qualities to the highest degree. If you believe that learning is at the root of all growth and all varieties of…
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And the winner is…
Read more: And the winner is……team Flying Minions! Check out the video below for a look behind the scenes at the Kids Read Now fulfillment center and the need that sparked creativity for first place winners Jacky Cai and Luke Duncan. You can read the full story about the engineering challenge and the engineering champions from the University of Dayton…
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Kids Read Now Engineering Challenge!
Read more: Kids Read Now Engineering Challenge!University of Dayton engineering students are working with Kids Read Now to in a contest to improve our fulfillment center’s efficiency. Check out the full article or watch the video coverage!
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Several Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic
Read more: Several Lessons Learned from the COVID PandemicTo put it mildly, the COVID pandemic has been a game changer, a shake-up, a reset, and a force that has made us re-examine who we are, what we can do and a reminder of what we can overcome if we work together in education. Essentially, it has been one of the greatest teachers that…
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We Need to Read
Read more: We Need to ReadIt’s no secret that we love books here at Kids Read Now. We love watching kids pick their own books. We love sending those books straight to their homes. We love seeing kids get excited to get new and exciting books in the mail. Most of all, we love how this process helps kids beat…