Session+3+-+March+12,+2010

=**Session 3**= =**March 12, 2010**=

**Video Clips from Session**
[] (Teaching content is teaching reading) [] (Paired reading example) [] (Vocabulary quick study cards demo)

**Readability Website by Keith Johnson**

 * http://www.timetabler.com/reading.html**

This website contains an informative article about reading levels of text. The article describes and explains several different readability formulas and features of text not addressed by these types of formulas. The article discusses the reading levels of science textbooks in particular and the features of text that make them more or less difficult for students to read and comprehend.

**Student Reading Level Assessment Websites**
3 Minute Reading Assessment – this is great, quick, easy and connected text []

Sebastian Wren’s Simple Formative Reading Survey []

Reading Level Assessments – Reading A-Z []

**Sources for Text at Different Levels**
This document provides information on sources of instructional texts created at varying reading levels.

**Webinar on Summer Reading Support Program**
Summer Reading, Summer Not: Preventing Summer Reading Loss. March 25, 2010 2:00 pm EST Presenter: James S. Kim, Harvard Graduate School of Education Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Equity Center at George Washington University Link to an article which provides an overview of James Kim's research []
 * To Register: ** Go to @http://ceee.gwu.na4.acrobat.com/reads/event/registration.html

**Can you read this?**
Mixed up words that we can still read!

http://www.funny-potato.com/read-this.html