Comments for Rising Stars Blog http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog Rising Stars blog - our world in words and pictures. We get excited about what we do – talking to teachers, and authors, chatting with pupils and turning conversations and ideas into practical educational resources. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:32:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Out Loud! Guest blogger Gill Budgell on why voicing your reading matters. by Ignacio http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=273#comment-405 Ignacio Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:32:14 +0000 http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=273#comment-405 We've used several of these ideas, mainly letting them read below their reading level if it just gets them reading, and trust that the joy will come. And with my 2 readers, it has! One was even a "late" reader and now reads avidly, above grade level, and we've begun the chant of "No books at the dinner table...." because he just can't put a book down. I keep our previous SL Cores on the shelves, and books that were read-alouds years ago are now readers for him, and he's enjoying them so much more. This is why I'm not stressed over my youngest not yet reading -- he'll get there. Of course, the most unorthodox thing we did with our struggling reader (the one who's now quite an avid reader) was to use subtitles when we watched movies, and let him play video games that had written cues on screen. He had to read the cues to know what to do next, and it helped. We also encouraged comic strips with high vocabulary in small amounts (Calvin & Hobbes). Unconventional, but sure did work! Now he's usually reading 3 books at once and flying through things well above his grade level. We’ve used several of these ideas, mainly letting them read below their reading level if it just gets them reading, and trust that the joy will come. And with my 2 readers, it has! One was even a “late” reader and now reads avidly, above grade level, and we’ve begun the chant of “No books at the dinner table….” because he just can’t put a book down. I keep our previous SL Cores on the shelves, and books that were read-alouds years ago are now readers for him, and he’s enjoying them so much more. This is why I’m not stressed over my youngest not yet reading — he’ll get there. Of course, the most unorthodox thing we did with our struggling reader (the one who’s now quite an avid reader) was to use subtitles when we watched movies, and let him play video games that had written cues on screen. He had to read the cues to know what to do next, and it helped. We also encouraged comic strips with high vocabulary in small amounts (Calvin & Hobbes). Unconventional, but sure did work! Now he’s usually reading 3 books at once and flying through things well above his grade level.

]]> Comment on What’s that black box on our marketing all about? by Andrew http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=198#comment-140 Andrew Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:26:44 +0000 http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=198#comment-140 Have you thought about creating resources where the children access the info via the QR code? So for example, you create a pack of QRs that could be distributed around a school and the children scan each one to find out the next bit of the story (that you have created as a series of individual web objects webpage). Dead easy to do and we have several schools locally who are doing this with their own materials (as many of our schools - primary - have ipods for children to use) but you could create something fab to almost jump in at the beginning of this type of use. Please contact me if you would like to see what we are doing already and would like to develop it with us. Have you thought about creating resources where the children access the info via the QR code? So for example, you create a pack of QRs that could be distributed around a school and the children scan each one to find out the next bit of the story (that you have created as a series of individual web objects webpage). Dead easy to do and we have several schools locally who are doing this with their own materials (as many of our schools – primary – have ipods for children to use) but you could create something fab to almost jump in at the beginning of this type of use. Please contact me if you would like to see what we are doing already and would like to develop it with us.

]]> Comment on What’s that black box on our marketing all about? by Julia Garvey http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=198#comment-34 Julia Garvey Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:07:10 +0000 http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=198#comment-34 Did you know Which magazine has just published an article all about QR codes as well? http://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/qr-code-do-they-have-a-future/ Did you know Which magazine has just published an article all about QR codes as well? http://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/qr-code-do-they-have-a-future/

]]> Comment on Taking the Kindle for a test drive by Delilah Rorabaugh http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=180#comment-15 Delilah Rorabaugh Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:51:29 +0000 http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=180#comment-15 I really wish I hadn't observed this as I really want one now! I really wish I hadn’t observed this as I really want one now!

]]> Comment on Guest blogger Dawn Hallybone on the challenges for the new year by Protocol Education http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=142#comment-7 Protocol Education Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:03:19 +0000 http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=142#comment-7 A great start to what should be a good blog series! Protocol Education has a teacher blog too, check it out here - http://proto-uk-supply-teaching.blogspot.com Enjoy! A great start to what should be a good blog series!

Protocol Education has a teacher blog too, check it out here – http://proto-uk-supply-teaching.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

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