Aiding Students in Reading with NaturalReader 9.0

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Aiding Students in ReadingwithNaturalReader 9.0

• Laura Stemler

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Hereford Middle SchoolMSA Reading Proficiency
2009

• AYP Met
• High percentage overall
• Low percentage in subgroups
• African American
• Special Education

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MSA Reading Proficiency 2010

• Decrease in reading proficiency
• 6th Grade African Americans
• 6th Grade Special Education
• Overall decrease by
• African Americans
• Special Education

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HMSSchool Improvement Plan

• Integrate technology in the teaching/learning
  process, instructional practices resulting in
  more purposeful and engaging work for students.

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NaturalReader 9.0 for EducationFeatures

• Words highlighted as read
• Read text is converted to MP3
• Natural sounding voices
• Control voice speed
• Text can be read as typed
• Word prediction

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NaturalReader 9.0 for EducationFeatures

• Toolbar Integration
• Audio player, recorder, and editor
• Batch file converter
• MP3 and WAV converter
• eBook reader

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Multiple Intelligences

• Verbal/Linguistic learners
• Can help improve
• Vocabulary
• Writing
• Proofreading

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Staff Development

• Leadership
• Media Specialist and Technology Resource Teacher
• Training
• Collaboration
• Support

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Concerns Based Adoption Modelor CBAM
Levels of concern
7. Refocusing Teachers consider the benefits of the innovation and think of additional alternatives that might work even better. (I have some ideas about something that would work even better.)
6. Collaboration Teachers cooperate with other teachers in implementing the innovation. (How can I relate what I am doing to what others are doing?)
5. Consequence Teachers focus on the innovation's impact on students. (How is my use affecting learners? How can I refine it to have more impact?)
4. Management Teachers learn the processes and tasks of the innovation. They focus on information and resources. (I seem to be spending all my time getting materials ready.)
3. Personal Teachers want to learn about the personal ramifications of the innovation. They question how the innovation will affect them. (How will using it affect me?)
2. Informational Teachers have a general interest in the innovation and would like to know more about it. (I would like to know more about it.)
1. Awareness Teachers have little concern or involvement with the innovation. (I am not concerned about it.)
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Differentiating Instruction

• Content, Process, Product

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NETS-S
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Student Results

• Assessment of students
• Grammar, vocabulary, spelling, critical thinking
• Speed at which students complete assignments
• Individual frequency of use
• Accelerated reader scores
• Speaking with students
• Next years AYP scores

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Teacher Survey

• CBAM Survey
• Use in the classroom
• Affect on students
• Students test scores
• Students use of software

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Cost

• 99.90 per computer
• Where will we get the money?
• PTA
• Grauls grocery store register receipt money
• Grants

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Bibliography

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• ISTE NETS for Students 2007. (n.d.).
  International Society for Technology in Education
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• Stages of concern. (n.d.). North Central Regional
  Educational Laboratory. Retrieved July 20, 2010,
  from www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/prof
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