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By Katie Gardner, Knollwood Elementary School, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA As educators begin to prepare, organize and plan their summer learning programs I encourage you to consider WriteReader. This web-based book creation program is a fantastic tool to engage and support student learning during the summer months. Literacy learning through multimodal book creation  Through the […]

By Dina Hegazy, grade 3 homeroom teacher, El Alsson International School, Giza, Egypt   The lack of guided reading platforms, diagnostic and placement tools in Arabic narrows down the opportunities for efficient placement where students would be able to either read within their ZPD: Zone of Proximal Development, or to be placed on their instructional and/or

In early elementary school, most children have gained an initial understanding of phonics, which is the correspondence between letter patterns (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes). As students write, some of the words may have the correct initial letter and a few other correct letters. The WriteReader learning tool is a perfect playground for emergent writers to

By LeNaye Pearson, English Language Learners, Cheatham County School District, Ashland City, Tennessee, USA   Templates are a great way to have the students write, even when there is limited computer access. Some of my students have limited technology and cannot easily interact with WriteReader online. I use the templates that are available on WriteReader,

As they begin kindergarten, most children are transitioning from the audio storytelling phase of preschool and are beginning to apply some early emergent writing skills. These students are eager to “write” and tell what they know, but often need support as well as help identifying topics to write about. One important way to increase young

The best way to start the journey towards acquisition of the written language is by introducing young children to writing through creative and meaningful literacy activities.  One important way to increase young children’s understanding and motivation for producing written language is by making them proud authors based on their current developmental stage, then step by

You may think that templates and creativity are opposites, but for many students, support, scaffolding, and frameworks are an important step to kickstarting the creative process. That said, it’s always important to give students the space needed to unleash their creativity without losing focus on the matter. Sound complicated? It doesn’t have to be. Templates

It has been a turbulent year, to say the least, but we have been witness to how teachers have been able to manage and provide valuable education to their students. We are happy to see that WriteReader has played a part to assist teachers to maintain their student’s literacy skills. We have received the below

One of the trickiest parts of writing for young authors is selecting a topic to write about. I have spent time talking about small moments, modeling how I select a topic, and brainstorming word banks of topic ideas. While using WriteReader with some emergent writers, I also discovered that the image collections are a fantastic

WriteReader has a unique Educator Text feature that allows the teacher to type text underneath the students’ writing. I used this feature in kindergarten today in a few different ways. The book template I created for the kindergartners was very simple, including the sentence stem “I love” on each page to support emergent writers. This