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Implementing WICOR®: Reading

WICOR® is AVID’s proven learning support structure, which emphasizes writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading to prepare students for college and career success. This collection explores reading strategies as well as technology that can be used to power up the reading process.

Teach Reading With Online Resources

Use digital tools and strategies to make reading instruction more engaging, efficient, and effective.

Best Practices 4 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Read Online With e-Books, Virtual Libraries, and Digital Collections

Expand student access to reading materials through e-Books, virtual libraries, and digital collections.

Best Practices 5 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Level the Playing Field With Leveled Reading

Leverage leveled reading websites to effectively and efficiently differentiate for different student reading levels, scaffold reading development, and make academic content accessible.

Best Practices 4 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Take It Further With Online Literature Resources

Discover online resources to help plan and teach lessons about literature.

Best Practices 4 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Fine-Tune Your Communication With Online Reference Materials

Develop a collection of online reference materials for convenient and immediate access and use.

Best Practices 3 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Find and Explore Websites to Help Teach ELA

Explore websites filled with lessons, teaching ideas, content resources, and interactive games.

Best Practices 5 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Avoid Misleading Messages

To sift through the vast quantities of misleading information presented to us each day, we need to develop the skills that will inform us how to avoid being misled.

Best Practices 20 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Weave the Information Together: Step 4 of the Searching for ANSWERS Inquiry Process

Learn how to help students apply critical thinking, note-taking, and organizational skills as they weave information together during the fourth step in the ANSWERS inquiry process.

Best Practices 18 min Grades 3-12 Resource by:

Read Aloud

Use this Chrome extension to have online text read aloud while you browse websites.

Tech Tools 5 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Empower Students With Accessibility Tools

Explore strategies and tools like text to speech, translation services, and closed captioning that can make content more accessible to your students.

Best Practices 20 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Increase Retention by Engaging Students in Digital Reading

Increase retention by applying critical reading strategies to digital text, images, and video.

Best Practices 5 min Grades 3-12 Resource by:

InsertLearning

Turn any website into an interactive reading experience with InsertLearning.

Tech Tools 20 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Incorporate Strategies for Critical Reading and Digital Marking of Text

Explore strategies and tools that will help students critically read and mark up digital documents, PDFs, and websites.

Best Practices 20 min Grades 3-12 Resource by:

Incorporate Strategies for Critical Reading of Video and Digital Images

Teach students to “read” videos and digital images with the critical reading process that they use when reading texts.

Best Practices 15 min Grades 3-12 Resource by:

Digital Reading Deep Dive

Video Podcast 21 min

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