Reading and Literacy Tweets 9/19/12

https://www.facebook.com/fdnforearlylearning

 "So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, please go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookcase on the wall." Happy birthday Roald Dahl! In your honor, re-purposed spice racks!

https://www.facebook.com/fdnforearlylearning

Maybe now we might say computer time out.

 

1. Sound It Out  Assessing and learning the letters of the alphabet

http://www.readingrockets.org/blog/53818/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=RRSocialMedia 

2. New exams discriminate against dyslexics

https://www.senmagazine.co.uk/news/1053-new-english-baccalaureate-certificate-will-discriminate-against-dyslexics-says-charity.html 

3. Invest In Adult Literacy: Low Adult Literacy as a Public Health Issue

http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/event/invest-in-adult-literacy-low-adult-literacy-as-a-public-health-issue 

 Mind/Shift, I love you. You are so fascinating.

4. Survey: Parents Prefer Reading Print Books to Young Kids

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/survey-for-young-kids-parents-prefer-reading-print-books/ 

Print books are 3 dimensional and they smell good, too.

 

 

Always the Time To Learn Tweets of the Day 9/5/12

We must educate the whole brain.

The arts release the learning.

1. How the Arts Unlock the Door to Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/stw-arts-integration-reform-overview 

2. Instructional Coaches: An Invitation to an Advice Column

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/coaching_teachers/ 

Just keep your criteria straight, officials.

3. More Paralympic athletes with learning disabilities expected for Rio 2016

Games officials confident of increased numbers but admit some competitors will always try to cheat classification system

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/28/paralympics-rio-2016-learning-disabilities?newsfeed=true 

Literacy for all!

4.  ProLiteracy Starts New Chapter with Grand Opening of New Headquarters

http://www.proliteracy.org/page.aspx?pid=1161

Plan ahead for next summer!

5.  National Conference - Conference Workshops 

http://www.summerlearning.org/?page=conferenceworkshops#Systems%20Building 

Is it always about profit?

6. Special Report: The profit motive behind virtual schools in Maine

http://www.pressherald.com/news/virtual-schools-in-maine_2012-09-02.html 

Hey--you can't get a way with it.

7. Florida School Teachers Helped Students Cheat On State Exams, Investigation Reveals 

http://www.pressherald.com/news/virtual-schools-in-maine_2012-09-02.html 

But what would be the cost to the kids?

8. Special Education Spending Reduction To National Median Could Save Districts $10 Billion: Study 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/districts-could-save-10-b_n_1858345.html 

 

 

Teaching Is

Tweets of the Week

Another week driving down the information highway. Here are my stops along the way.

 A sweet story of a little guy meeting the snow in New York, and he just happens to be black.

This is the child who inspired the author/illustrator.

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/28/145052896/the-snowy-day-breaking-color-barriers-quietly

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/oct/26/teaching-a-team-effort/

  'It's good to have the child exposed to the same curriculum standards as students without disabilities because those are the standards they're being held accountable for.' I agree.

I agree with the resources of this next one--but remember we are not slaves to our hereditary or environment.
http://www.famlit.org/follow/

• Children’s reading scores improve dramatically when their parents are involved in helping them learn to read.
• Low family income and a mother’s lack of education are the two biggest risk factors that hamper a child’s early learning and development.

http://www.literacyvolunteers.org/home/
Adult literacy program, plus some cool testimonials.


The next several links are related to autism and Asperger's symdrome. This is the fastest growing area of Special Education teacher training. In the state of California, all Special Academic Instructors are now required to earn a specific certificate.
http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism
http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/symptoms
http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/asperger-syndrome

http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/treatment
 
Here's something beautiful to listen to from a little girl who loved to practice the piano and became very famous--Mary Johnstone of Cornwall, aka Moura Lympany interpreting Debussy's 'Clair de Lune.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY
"Music isn't the notes. It's the spaces between the notes." Debussy