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Remote, virtual, distance, or hybrid learning have become the reality for many students these days. Over the past six months, remote learning has touched most students around the world for weeks or even months.   Lack of remote learning inspiration for emergent writers Last month, I attended a seminar by Google Education in Scandinavia covering […]

WriteReader’s vision has always been to impact children’s literacy globally. This is our why, our reason for working hard to provide the best possible digital learning tool for children, parents, and teachers.   WriteReader Marathon So, we were thrilled to welcome George Astvatsaturov onboard as one of our ambassadors. George is the Director of the

As a first grade remote teacher, it’s important to me that my students have the opportunity to write every day. The only way to become better writers is to get lots of practice writing! As a K-3 technology integration coach, I value the use of digital tools and technology to give students the ability to

As teachers, we know the power of collaborative learning for our students. And it’s equally important for us to teach collaboratively. Helen Keller said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Another powerful quote to support collaborative teaching is by Mike Schmoker: “Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund

In these special times, it’s very important to give children a voice and the opportunity to express their knowledge, thoughts, and feelings. Writing is an obvious form of expression that allows students to share their thoughts and knowledge with others and at the same time save their experience of a historical time. To motivate and

As a teacher, it moves me to see how proud they are of their books and how eager they were to read what others did. We are delighted to see how educators are using WriteReader to support their remote learning. Here is an idea spark by Estela S. Serrano who is teaching primary grade students.

The Global Read Aloud (GRA) was created in 2010 by Pernille Ripp, a Danish-American teacher, author, literacy expert, and speaker. The GRA blog asks the question “Why the GRA?” and answers it in this way:  “Global collaboration is necessary to show students that they are part of something bigger than them. That the world needs

We have added 20 new Halloween images just in time to inspire spooky writing for your students. Here are 8 writing prompts that will help scaffold students writing. What is the scariest thing that you have ever experienced? What makes it so scary? What was the best Halloween costume you have ever had? Write what

It’s the beginning of a new school year. You have new students and perhaps a new grade to teach. And in this time of change and uncertainty, you and your students will have a new way of doing things.   What’s New at WriteReader? At WriteReader, there are a few things that are new too.

In the previous blog post, we launched our latest feature – the feedback function. It allows educators to praise students, scaffold instruction, and guide student writing. We encourage you to read that blog post to learn how to use it; and then, try it out with your students. In this post, we’d like to share