August 2018
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 [...]
February 2017
How does control of navigation through words impact a reader’s experience?
What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund My rating: 5 of 5 stars "At once (at a gulp) we readers: 1) Read a sentence... 2) Read several sentences ahead... 3) Maintain consciousness of the content of sentences we have already read... 4) Imagine events down the line." I'm [...]
January 2017
Read Ahead Launches New Product Enhancements
www.ReadAhead.Education Software empowers teachers to reinforce academic language using any content Click to Enlarge: Read Ahead Version 2.0 Dashboard Norcross, Ga., January 9, 2017 — Read Ahead Version 2.0 launched with several new product enhancements designed to help elementary, middle and high school teachers maximize in-class reading time. [...]
March 2016
Read Ahead, The Origin Story
Getting Students to Read While working on my PhD at Georgia State University's College of Education, I met a dedicated and inspiring high school English teacher, Josh Cuevas. He was committed to helping his students improve their reading skills by requiring them to read for 50 minutes [...]