“While we (teachers) are not always comfortable with technology, we need to think about students first and work through our challenges to make things better for them,” said Sharon Plante, Director of Technology for the Southport School, Southport, CT, during a recent edWebinar. She emphasizes that meeting the needs of students with learning disabilities through the use of technology “can make reading instruction a multi-sensory process that is engaging and explicit while maintaining the individualization and diagnostic-prescriptive aspects of the lesson.”
In this edWebinar, Sharon Plante discusses various tools that can support differentiated and individualized engagement during small group reading.
In this edWebinar, Teddy Redding dives into the concept of close reading and presents techniques educators can use to teach students to “read like writers.”