Are You Kidding…..Picture Books on Mobile Devices???

Terry Atkinson & Emilia Sotolongo East Carolina University

NCRA2014

“Access to books is the single biggest barrier to literacy development in the United States and beyond. If we can solve the problem of access, we will be well on the road to realizing educational parity—a goal which has eluded this country for generations.”

-Susan B. Neuman, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Elementary Education

Read more about Neuman’s work at: https://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall2012/Neuman.pdf

UNITE FOR LITERACY’S BOOK CYCLE…http://www.slideshare.net/MarkWFCondon/ncfl-2012-it-just-keeps-getting-better

The Literacy Cycle….

http://about.uniteforliteracy.com/

www.facebook.com/uniteforliteracy

Unite for Literacy Blog: Addressing Current issues and

topics in literacy

• The importance of reading fluency as an isolated descriptor of productive reading behavior is currently overemphasized in state and school based reading assessments.

• Avid readers can read well AND they choose to read.

• Individuals have to be excited about reading before they will ever put in the necessary hard work to get good at reading.

• This begs the question,

“Why don’t we see discussions of avid reading in the news alongside discussions of fluent reading?”

The following is adapted fromAvid, Fluent, Readers. What LESS could you ask for?Mark Condon, March 12, 2014

http://library.uniteforliteracy.com/

http://library.uniteforliteracy.com/Reader.aspx?BookId=57&LibraryId=204

Literacy is not for Literacy Tests…It’s for LIFE!

Using the learner’s own…

-words makes even a challenging text comfortable.-images(s) makes the content forever fascinating-voice helps connect language with print-interests and experiences helps maintain high motivation and interests

-Adapted from http://www.slideshare.net/MarkWFCondon/ncfl-2012-it-just-keeps-getting-better

Taken from http://www.slideshare.net/MarkWFCondon/ncfl-2012-it-just-keeps-getting-better

Adapted from http://www.slideshare.net/MarkWFCondon/ncfl-2012-it-just-keeps-getting-better

Link to RealeWriter Tutorial

Image Credits…Follow My Blisshttp://followbarbsbliss.blogspot.com/2011/01/magic-of-great-book.html

DM Traininghttp://blog.dmtraining.net/blog/bid/360453/Consider-Your-Mobile-Marketing-Strategy-Or-Lack-Thereof

Excerpts from:

Mark Condon’s Unite for Literacy Slidesharehttp://www.slideshare.net/MarkWFCondon/ncfl-2012-it-just-keeps-getting-better

Avid, fluent, readers. What LESS could you ask for? (Mark Condon)http://about.uniteforliteracy.com/2014/03/avid-fluent-readers-what-less-could-you-ask-for/