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When did you learn to write? It’s hard to remember, isn’t it? It’s not just because it was so long ago but also because it didn’t happen at one exact moment in time. It happened over time. Just like their bodies, children’s knowledge and skills grow in spurts and stops, as well as sudden peaks […]

  Who doesn’t love receiving a big yellow happy face or one that is Laughing-Out-Loud? We all love using emojis in our texts and emails or adding them as stickers on photos. These fun Japanese icons certainly brighten our digital messages.     Social-Emotional Learning Educationally speaking, emojis can also be useful in helping children

Happy New Year! We’re so glad to have been part of your educational experience in 2018, and look forward to helping your children and students learn to read and write in 2019 as well. Sesame Street and SEL Looking back at 2018, one of our top highlights was when we extended our exciting partnership with

  In the delightful children’s book Same, Same but Different, we read about two pen pals. Elliot lives in America and Kailash lives in India. As they share pictures and letters, they learn that their lives are similar in many ways as well as different. And so it is with all of us. We come

Guest blog post by Kimiko Shibata, itinerant ESL/ELD teacher for the Waterloo Region District School Board, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada I first came across the WriteReader app in a list of apps that a Twitter colleague claimed integrated well with Google Classroom. I’m always looking for new strategies and resources to help my English Language Learners

By Sara Ipsen, Children’s Club Coordinator at the Trampoline House community refugee center, Copenhagen, Denmark ’We have many kids with difficulties concentrating, and some of them find it difficult to sit still for longer than just a few minutes. With WriteReader, the kids have been engaged for up to one hour or more, which we

This guest blog post was written by Katie Gardner. Katie is an ESL Kindergarten teacher from North Carolina, USA and is a WriteReader ambassador. An important standard that we teach in our Kindergarten curriculum is, ’With prompting and support, retell familiar stories including key details.’ To practice this standard, my Kindergarten English Language Learners (ELL)

We’ve extended our exciting partnership with Sesame Street by offering a collaborative lesson plan that integrates social-emotional learning with literacy instruction. Kindness Our new lesson plan incorporates the theme of kindness. There are many possible ways of teaching and learning with this theme. In your classroom, you and your students can participate in read alouds

  There are many skills that students need when learning to communicate. One important skill for writers and readers is to learn to sequence words and ideas in a way that makes sense.   Why teach story sequence? According to Reading Rockets, we must teach sequencing because: It assists with comprehension, especially for narrative texts.

  WriteReader is excited to announce that we have added a new feature. Our latest feature is callouts. You may know them as speech and thought bubbles. Callouts are an easy way for young writers to add dialogue, background knowledge, insights, and creative thinking to their writing. Most of all, kids love using them!