We hope your students spend the upcoming summer break running around playgrounds, catching fireflies, and having plenty of fun. We also hope they maintain the reading skills they’ve worked so hard to develop this year. Is there a way to combine having fun with continuing to build reading...
Read more When Andrea Peterson realized her son George was struggling with phonemic awareness, she asked the question any mother would ask: “How can I help him?” Speech therapists told her to “just be his mom” and leave the rest to the professionals. As an educator with a background...
Read more Congratulations to Star Student Calvin C. from Cedar Spring, MI! Calvin is a fifth-grade student at Creative Technologies Academy. Calvin’s teacher, Sarah Classen, had this to say about him:
Read more Now you can provide your students with greater access to Read Naturally Live in iPad-enabled classrooms and computer labs with our new free* iPad app!
Read more Read Naturally will be exhibiting at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Conference in Philadelphia, PA from April 9–12, 2014. Thousands of special education teachers, administrators, researchers, professors, and students from around the world will discuss the Common Core State Standards; administration; autism; co-teaching and collaboration; emotional and behavior disorders; instructional strategies for math, reading, and science; policy; technology; and Response to Intervention.
Read more You’re browsing the shelves of your favorite bookstore. Book spines of various sizes and colors flank a book whose cover is facing outward, looking you squarely in the eye. Not surprisingly, this is the book that interests you. Someone has clearly decided it’s special. Which...
Read more Automated spell-check. Without it, I’d need to be more conscientious about spelling words like conscientious correctly. But if my computer can spell it for me, why would I need to learn to spell conscientious myself? In the age of automated spell-check, teachers may wonder if...
Read more The Read Naturally strategy delivers remarkable results when used correctly. Numerous studies have proven this fact, and countless teachers observe it every day. If you’re using the Read Naturally strategy and not getting the results you hope for, one simple change will often do the trick:...
Read more Check it out! We completely revamped our website, www.readnaturally.com . You’ll immediately notice a fresh new look and easy-to-navigate homepage. But that’s far from all. Our goal was to make each page on our site more user-friendly and informative. We streamlined, organized,...
Read more Spring conferences are fast approaching! As you share your students’ fluency progress with their parents/guardians, point out the ways they can support this progress at home. Consider offering our “fluency at home” letter, which explains to parents how they can use teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring at home.
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