Mobile App Monday - 25 Greatest Christmas Stories

Looking for an app for those horse-drawn sleigh rides over the river and through the woods? This simple app offers 25 of the most beloved Christmas stories. Read these beautifully illustrated stories with your child or have them practice on their own. Stories include:

* A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
* The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
* The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
* The Cobbler's Guest by Leo Tolstoy
* The Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke
* And more!

For more information, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id345625939

Mobile App Monday - Reading Rainbow Skybrary Family

Remember Reading Rainbow from the '80s and '90s? Host LeVar Burton is back in a new app format! Features include unlimited reading of over 500 quality children’s books, 7 themed islands that excite and inspire, more than 200 educational video field trips with LeVar Burton, new content every Friday, and much more. Keep the excitement for reading alive with your struggling readers!

For more information, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id512350210

Using Choosito

Looking for a free search engine that takes the guesswork out of which websites might be appropriate for your students? Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers, has produced a short video on how to do that with Choosito, a reading level-indexed search tool.

To check out his blog post, please visit:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/01/how-to-use-choositos-reading-level.html#.VrsqhNsrJD8

Mobile App Monday - Starfall Pumpkin

"Visit the Pumpkin Patch, choose a pumpkin and design a face. Weigh pumpkins in kilograms or pounds and discover which is the lightest and which is heaviest. Collect your pumpkin creations and give your favorite the blue ribbon! This app is excellent for emerging readers and young mathematicians." -iTunes

Interested? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id569922097

Executive skills and reading comprehension: A guide for educators

Executive skills and reading comprehension: A guide for educators "highlights the importance of executive skills for improving reading comprehension. Chapters review the research base for particular executive functions--such as planning, organization, cognitive flexibility, and impulse control--and present practical skills-building strategies for the classroom." -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Starfall

Looking for a game app for children who might be having trouble learning to read? Starfall was developed by a PhD who struggled to read as a child. Its colorful graphics, fun music, and educational games make it an app even older children enjoy.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id707189889

Mobile App Monday - School Tool: Rhyming Words

Designed by creators of Build A Word Easy Spelling used by schools and loved by students worldwide! Teach students rhyming words to help them develop phonemic awareness which leads to better reading and writing (spelling) success.

Online Summer Reading Skills Program

This summer, the folks at the Community Learning Network at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) are offering reading skills and speed reading programs for preschoolers through 10th graders. These individualized programs include online instruction, independent reading and support from a reading teacher. The program design and instruction are provided by the Institute of Reading Development.

Interested? Call 800-964-9974 for more information or to register.

Mobile App Monday - Koko Books

Looking for a e-reader app? With Kobo, you can read on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch anywhere, anytime. Visit Kobo and browse more than 3.5 million free and affordable titles in the Kobo Store, including bestsellers, award winners, new releases, classics, and hidden gems. All your books sync right to the app.

Want to know more? Please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id301259483?mt=8#

Mobile App Monday - Kindle

"The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000 books in the Kindle Store plus hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device."

For more information about this app, please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle/id302584613?mt=8#

Now I Get It!: Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning

Need a practical resource to help with reading comprehension? Now I Get It! Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning has strategies for differentiating instruction and supporting children with technology. Written mainly for education professionals, parents will also find it helpful when their children are doing homework and reading at home.

Want to know more about it? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - eReading: Greek Myths

Looking for a reading app for children with dyslexia, LD, FASD, autism, slow readers, and other language based issues? The eReading: Greek Myths app combines 37 original illustrations with narrations and highlighting to help create a fun reading experience for those who find reading difficult. The reader completely controls the reading experience. Have it read to you or try to read it yourself.

Want to know more about it? Please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ereading-greek-myths/id430731994?mt=8#

Reading Help for Older Beginners

Got a struggling reader who has given up trying? Looking for something that isn't tailored to early childhood? Try reading again! This book can help turn older beginning readers into first-time readers or significantly improve their reading abilities. The reading method presented here is appropriate for people with intellectual disabilities, as well as for students whose native language is not English (ESL students). Try Reading Again features three important components:
-Language experience stories
-Phonics
-Age-appropriate structured stories

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Reading assessment in an RTI framework

Book Description for Reading Assessment in an RTI Framework:
"From leading experts, this indispensable resource presents a practical model for conducting reading assessments for screening, diagnosis, and progress monitoring in each of the three tiers of response to intervention (RTI). K-8 teachers and school personnel are guided to use norm-referenced, informal, and curriculum-based measures to assess key components of reading development and make informed choices about instruction. The book describes how to survey existing assessment practices in a school and craft a systematic plan for improvement; reproducible tools include a 10-page RTI Assessment Audit that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

"See also Assessment for Reading Instruction, Second Edition, which explains the fundamentals of assessment and provides essential hands-on tools."

To check out this title, email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Alphabet Photo Machine

Looking for an app to help your child gain confidence in learning the alphabet? Want to help develop their fine motor skills? Try Alphabet Photo Machine. While kids play, they can explore more than 333 photos and learn over 60 early sight words. This app doesn't force learning in alphabetical order but allows children to choose the photos they want to see when they want to see them. Soothing background music allows kids to practice early literacy skills without being distracting.

Want to learn more about this app? Visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alphabet-photo-machine/id375031865?mt=8#

Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives

Want to help your students become more sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers? Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives can help. This book explores the relationship between the text and the learner through discussion and rhetorical reading and writing and is appropriate for all grade levels. It emphasizes the importance of classroom discussion to understanding the text and discusses literary theory, scaffolding instruction, and explanations of reading comprehension strategies.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Language and Reading Disabilities

From the book description:

"Now more than ever, increased attention has been given to students achieving adequate levels of reading proficiency. Maintaining its strong clinical and research basis, the third edition of Language and Reading Disabilities successfully keeps pace with the rapid changes in our knowledge about language and reading disabilities by providing readers with the most up-to-date advances in research and instruction in reading disabilities. This edition continues to cover a wide variety of theories by comparing and noting the similarities and differences between spoken and written language. This text is broad-based in its coverage of identification, assessment, and treatment of reading and writing disorders." 

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu, or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Differentiated Reading Instruction in Grades 4 & 5

Differentiated reading instruction in grades 4 & 5 is a find for teachers with 4th and 5th graders. It offers differentiation strategies for every student, even those who don't struggle with reading, along with activities, organizational tools, and resources to help busy teachers make the most of their instruction time.

To check out this title, send us an email at cedir@indiana.edu, or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Rebuilding the Foundation

From the product description:

Rebuilding the foundation: Effective reading instruction for 21st Century literacy is not a prescription for designing reading programs. Rather, it leads its readers to engage in a deeper and more thoughtful professional conversation about what is meant by effective reading instruction for all students. The contributors examine how reading instruction is conceptualized and what must be done to make it work for all students. Hence, this book is less about building onto or altering existing models of reading education and more about how reading educators and policymakers might think about rebuilding and reconceptualizing, perhaps from the ground up, what it means to provide effective instruction in reading to all students at all levels.

Send us an email at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title. Or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Learn Braille

Looking for an app to help you learn the Braille system? Learn Braille may be for you! This app offers the Braille dots for all of the letters of the alphabet. Want to learn Braille in another language? This app also includes letters for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Hebrew.

Want to know more? Check out the iTunes preview at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-braille/id299359538?mt=8#