Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Experiment: Gym Class Helps Kids Read Better I’ve always thought that for some kids the typical high school day is backwards, they need to exercise before academics to get their blood chemistry and brains in the right groove for thinking.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Sep 29th, 2010 No Comments »
In Study, Children Cite Appeal of Digital Reading Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books. Until you can dog ear and [...]
Posted in Learning Materials, Reading, Writing, and Math on Mar 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Math Worksheets World Free math worksheets by email or download.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Playing musical instruments may improve reading Learning to play a musical instrument could help to improve children’s reading and their ability to listen in noisy classrooms, according to new research. “Our eyes and ears take in millions of bits of information every second and it is not possible for the brain to process all of [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Rock Groups Steven Strogatz has a great column in The New York times on arranging rocks (or any objects) in patterns to better visualize arithmetic. I’ve been coming back to this particular column the past week and enjoying scanning and rescanning it. I’m still a mathaphobe but I do like patterns so thinking of arithmetic [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 19th, 2010 2 Comments »
Ten words you need to stop misspelling The Oatmeal has a way with words, and diagrams. You can buy posters of this page here.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Sony launches Amazon challenger Sony has launched a wireless e-reader which allows users to download electronic books on the go. Amazon Kindle, Sony e-Reader and no doubt Apple will have a product in this category soon. All of this is very good for those of us who have a hard time reading “traditional” books the [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
John Siracusa on reading in the digital age This is a fantastic article because it covers the entire history of e-books, both as content and as devices. Very well thought out and written. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Reading Isn’t Fundamental Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella have an excellent piece in Slate on how to help your child learn to read.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Telescopic Text Click away on the text. Expand the sentence. Have fun.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Everyone Can Read
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 5th, 2008 No Comments »
keybr.com lets you test your speed and accuracy on the keyboard. I’m such a slow reader it kills my speed which is much better when I’m simply writing without the reading, like now. [via kottke.org]