May 18, 2006

Prompting Reading Speeds

This is a genuinely handy footling tool which is doing the rounds at the moment. It's called CuePrompter in addition to it's an online Teleprompter.

For those non inwards the know, a Teleprompter is a tool used past times intelligence readers, TV presenters etc to assistance them recollect their lines. They read it from higher upward the camera.
This is a genuinely handy footling tool which is doing the rounds at the minute Prompting reading speeds
This 1 is really unproblematic to role in addition to you lot precisely cutting in addition to glue your text into the field, lead shroud size, text size in addition to colours in addition to click a push clitoris in addition to you lot are off.


Once you lot bring your text upward on the shroud you lot tin thence lead the speed that the text moves at in addition to also exercise a few interesting things similar having the text contrary or having the text every bit a mirror image!
How to role this amongst students
This could move genuinely useful to force your students reading speed in addition to gist reading. Many students uncovering it really hard non to focus on every give-and-take of a text in addition to larn stuck when words come upward up that they don't know. With a tool similar this, you lot tin literally strength them to scan the text in addition to proceed moving.

To larn the best from this inwards degree you lot are going to demand a information projection or an interactive whiteboard (IWB).

Some possible tasks:
  • Paste inwards a intelligence text in addition to genuinely larn your students to read it every bit it scrolls. You could repeat in addition to gradually growth the speed.
  • Put students inwards pairs / groups to read out charge the parts of plays or dialogues. With brusk dialogues you lot could larn them to read through a few times in addition to thence play the mirror icon in addition to come across if they tin yet recollect in addition to follow the dialogue.
  • Play the text through inwards it's mirrored inversion outset in addition to come across how much Sts empathize (make it a brusk text though in addition to don't facial expression also much)
  • With brusk texts you lot could movement to larn students to read the text the write downwards what they bring read. You'll demand to re-show the text a release of times if you lot desire them to larn every word, or they could precisely summarise later a dyad of times through.
  • Try playing your text through at high speed the outset fourth dimension in addition to larn students to movement to justice what it's close in addition to thence gradually tiresome downwards the speed each fourth dimension thence they educate a improve understanding.
  • To larn students doing some TPR ( Total Physical Response), write a listing of instructions in addition to larn the students to exercise them inwards the lodge they seem on the prompter. It powerfulness also move fun to gradually growth the speed of the text in addition to come across if the students tin proceed up!

If you lot determine to larn students to read out loud from the text thence I think it's handy to role texts that were designed to move read aloud such every bit plays, poems or the text from a intelligence report. You could fifty-fifty larn students to arrive at their ain texts or texts for each other.

What I liked close this
  • It's free
  • It's genuinely unproblematic to use
  • You tin create materials inwards seconds
  • It doesn't involve downloading anything or using loads of bandwidth
  • It gives the instructor command of the text
What I wasn't thence certain about
  • It doesn't move thence good inwards the Firefox browser, though it's fine inwards IE
  • It would move useful to move able to relieve in addition to embed the texts into other pages
  • It gives the instructor command of the text
Hope you lot uncovering this useful in addition to if you lot bring whatsoever other suggestions for tips or activities past times all agency add together a comment below.

Best

Nik

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