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September 2018
Pro Tip: Chunking
One of the easiest but most powerful ways teachers are using Read Ahead: breaking reading assignments into sections so students can take in smaller "chunks" as they navigate through the text. It also makes it easier to read on your phone. It's a simple extra step but requires [...]
August 2018
July 2018
Students Read the 2nd Amendment
This Read Ahead lesson plan asks students an important question: What 3 words are most important in the 2nd amendment? Then invites students to share and compare the words they chose by demonstrating the words that should jump off the page. A shared reading experience. Next students provide a rationale [...]
March 2018
Top 5 Ways to Ruin a Reading Experience
Top 5 ways to ruin a reading experience 1) Interrogate: Turn every reading assignment into a test. Do you look forward to activities where you are stopped and questioned? a) Yes, I enjoy being questioned, especially when I’m in the middle of something. b) Yes, I like the challenge [...]
Read Ahead hearts Clever
Our mission at Read Ahead is to provide easy access to literacy for everyone. At any age. And any reading level. We are grateful to Clever for making it possible for us to now extend our free, evidence-based literacy tool to over 60,000 schools. And to school districts where easy [...]
October 2017
Read Ahead: Georgia’s Natural Disaster History
Are your students practicing reading strategies like how to identify supporting details or sequence of events? What if you could simulate the process of focusing on the right cues for these reading strategies while your students were reading? You can. Read Ahead lets you block out screen distractions and zoom [...]
September 2017
When Kids Can’t Read
When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12 by Kylene Beers My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dr. Beers lived a common experience of middle school, high school and early college teachers that persists today. We enter a room as content teachers and find out [...]
February 2017
2017 Horizon Report- Top 5
The 2017 New Media Consortium Higher Education Horizon report is out and here at Read Ahead, we feel validated. We have retooled literacy intervention and are well-suited for the future imagined in this report. Here's our top 5 summary of how Read Ahead aligns with the findings of the Horizon [...]