VocabularySpellingCity sponsored a webinar Dec. 1 with one of my favorite literacy heroes, Dr. Timothy Rasinski. His message on the importance of automaticity in word […]
VocabularySpellingCity literacy experts Barbara Kruger and Laura Kupres found the Nov. 17-18 Arkansas Reading Association Literacy Conference rewarding before they arrived: On the shuttle from […]
Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie opened a discussion forum with the promise “to educate all students to succeed in tomorrow’s world.” “This is […]
Writing, for most of us, is deeply personal, and feels like a reflection of who we are, how we are perceived. So often, providing feedback […]
Students who read words, but don’t understand them, often struggle with comprehension. Tim Rasinski, a renowned professor of literacy education whose research on reading fluency […]
Help Me … Help You! Remember that funny scene and line from the film Jerry Maguire? Premium Teacher Dashboard It came to mind this morning […]
I’m just back from the International Literacy Conference and I was struck my some apparent elementary ELA industry trends: Games on VocabularySpellingCity. Principals, literacy coaches, […]
VocabularySpellingCity and Science4Us joined forces today with dozens of local businesses and many Fort Lauderdale public service teams for our educational partner-school Dillard Elementary‘s Career City […]
VocabularySpellingCiy is a unique and power tool (web & app) used by many millions in schools, many to help ELL students. Why? Because VocabularySpellingCity is a rare […]
In the VocabularySpellingCity offices, we have some exciting discussions. For instance, must the word “school” always be a noun? What sort of bus? A SCHOOL bus! I was in […]
Who Owns the Learning? How VocabularySpellingCity Helps Students Own their Word Study I’ve been thinking a lot about onee of the questions that each teacher […]
SAMR: A Model for Assessing How Technology Affects Education Do you know the SAMR Model for assessing the impact of technology in the classroom? […]