This gives me some Diamond Age vibes.
Launch HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Teaching kids to read with the help of live actors
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#92This gives me some Diamond Age vibes.
3rd reference to Diamond Age today ;)
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#93"if you are a parent, I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how you foster reading amongst your students/children" From birth: We read to our son often. August 2020: I saw a recommendation on HN for the book "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons". Aug-Dec 2020: I spent 25-30 hours following that playbook. (15-20 mins per day, 5 days per week, 20 weeks.) August 2021: Our son (now almost 5yo) reads be…
I second that book. My father in law used it to teach my wife and her sister to read, and my eldest daughter. My youngest is not yet willing to follow the lessons though. We'll try again when she's 4.
Same here, really worked exceptionally well with our child. We just chipped away at a couple of lessons in the evenings most week days. Worked surprisingly well.
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#94"if you are a parent, I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how you foster reading amongst your students/children" From birth: We read to our son often. August 2020: I saw a recommendation on HN for the book "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons". Aug-Dec 2020: I spent 25-30 hours following that playbook. (15-20 mins per day, 5 days per week, 20 weeks.) August 2021: Our son (now almost 5yo) reads be…
Talking about cost: my son used a program called Reading Eggs for just around US 70$ per year (including math lessons!) and after 2-3 months he could read independently. I gave it to him in Kindergarten when we were in lockdown and he started relatively slowly (a new unit every two days for 15-20 minutes a day). In the beginning, I had to sit with him and help him navigate a little bit but after a few lessons, he could learn all alone. The lessons were designed so amusing and engaging, my son could stay on it all by himself. After a year, he was able to read on the level of grade 2 and his math level was also beyond his age.
We’re no native English speakers but my son went to an English speaking kindergarten. All seemed so natural and easy to me that I could not understand the fuss about teaching reading in America. I mean one could not get cheaper than that and giving tablets to millions children and problem solved!
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TIL a new acronym word symbol lexeme: SEL: Social and Emotional Learning > Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is an education practice that integrates social emotional skills into school curriculum. SEL is otherwise referred to as "socio-emotional learning" or "social-emotional literacy." When in practice, social emotional learning has equal emphasis on social and emotional skills to other subjects such as math, science…
Which traversals of a curriculum graph are optimal or sufficient? You can add https://schema.org/about and https://schema.org/educationalAlignment Linked Data to your [#OER] curriculum resources to increase discoverability, reusability. Arne-Thompson-Uther Index code URN URIs could be helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson%E2%80%9... > The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (ATU Index) is a catalogue o…
There exist books about raising a read-aloud family; promoting a culture of randomly reading aloud. To whoever, for example.
Writing letters, too.
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I'm thrilled to have our first elementary school teacher comment!! Yes! We have a team of educators and curriculum writers (broken up by Grades PreK-K, 1-2 and 3-5) that follow Common Core standards and build custom ELA curriculum on top of each book and Litnerd program. We provide 2 lesson plans per week and a total of 8 lesson plans per program. We also create SEL lessons (again, based on the book) that follow NYSE…
TIL a new acronym word symbol lexeme: SEL: Social and Emotional Learning > Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is an education practice that integrates social emotional skills into school curriculum. SEL is otherwise referred to as "socio-emotional learning" or "social-emotional literacy." When in practice, social emotional learning has equal emphasis on social and emotional skills to other subjects such as math, science…
> What are some of the more evidence-based (?) (early literacy,) reading curricula? OTOH: LETRS, Heggerty, PAL
Looks like there are only 21 search results for: "LETRS" "Fundation" "Heggerty": https://www.google.com/search?q="LETRS"+"fundation"+"heggert...
What is the name for this category of curricula?
Perhaps the US Department of Education or similar could compare early reading programs in a wiki[pedia] page, according to criteria to include measures of evidence-basedness? Just like https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/ has "aggregate data for each institution [&] Includes information on institutional characteristics, enrollment, student aid, costs, and student outcomes."
From YouTube, it looks like there are cool hand motions for Heggerty.