Dr. Casey's Reading Room

Orange County CUE Conference 1/20/07

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:00:48 -0800

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Powered up Students of Today

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:42:35 -0800

Early Literacy

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:36:06 -0800

First-grader Dillon Hayen, 6, concentrates as he listens, reads and writes during a lesson in his school's Writing to Read Laboratory at Hayden Elementary School (Blue Ribbon School) in Midway City California..The Achievement Gap-According to the 2003 NAEP results almost 90% of first graders who struggle with a slow learning pace continue to lag behind in fourth grade. On target students typically start Kindergarten with 3000 hours of pre-literacy activities in the home. At-risk students however start with just 50-250 hours of the same activities (Adams 1990). The need to begin literacy teaching from age 3-8 is essential. The talking word-processor can make a difference for all young children. Writing to Read, Waterford Early Reading Program, Dr. Peet's Talking Textwriter and Write Outloud are all names of software products that can be used to bring early literacy to all children.

princesscard

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:55:04 -0800

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From "The Scientist in The Crib" by Gopnik, Meltzoff, Kuhl. "It turns out that even very young babies make some assumptions about causal connections between events." Looks like our 9 month old Princess senses the importance of the credit card to keep her in her beautiful pink tutu! How do children really learn? " When we study children, we are studying ourselves: when we see how they develop, we are seeing how we became what we are. Babies think, reason, learn, and know as well as act and feel. Babies' minds are at least as rich, as abstract, as complex, as powerful as ours." How doe this impact what we as teachers and parents do when interacting with young children?

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Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:40:04 -0800

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Nine month old twins, boy and girl but look it's the boy who already has control of the TV remote!
What influences are genetic or environment? Are their gender differences in early childhood development? What roles do nature and nurture provide in a child's life? In a risk free environments how can adults foster learning? In what kind of environment is learning stifled? Think about it?

PBS Ready to Learn Conference

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:00:00 -0800

Today at the PBS Ready to Learn Conference in Arlington, Virginia, I gave this presentation titled Preparing Educators for the Millennium.

Hooked on Books

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:10:07 -0800

Certain children's books like the Harry Potter Series, the Captain UnderPants Series, Dr. Seuss book's, Judith Viorst's book's seem to captivate young readers and start them on the road to being lifelong readers. As teachers our job is to Hook our students on books. So let's use this blog space to share books that we have found have worked, made a difference with a child, hooked him/her on books. Tell your story of a student and the book that made a difference here.

Online Students

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:54:41 -0800

Through the years that I have taught online reading courses, I have found that a certain type of student is successful in an online course. The student must be self-motivated to work on materials weekly and respond on the discussion board. The student needs to communicate with peers online, conduct readings and research online and use classroom observations and CD-ROM viewing as a basis for reflection and written contributions.