leveled books on the iPad... K-2 Mobile Reading

Access to a variety of text types and genres that are "just right" for a reader is an essential component in a child's learning and development as a reader.

The K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app

• provides readers access to a variety of 100 Reading Recovery leveled books
• promotes readers' independent selection of "just right" books with simple app navigation and organization
• encourages active engagement throughout the reading process with supportive introductions, post-reading comprehension questions, and...
• includes in-app teacher management tools 
• monitors student reading and comprehension
• provides options of narrated reading, silent-self reading, or recording of reading for each book 

The First Grade Butterfly Readers log-in with individual passwords and access books at his/her "just right" reading level in the K-2 Mobile Reading app.

the K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app promotes and motivates
independent reading

first grade readers actively engage in the reading process
-reading digital books on the K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app

the K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app provides readers access to leveled texts

a first grade reader reads "just right" books on the iPad
-using the K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app

partner reading with the Scholastic Storia iPad app

As a scaffold to the First Grade Butterflies use of reading fluency, rate, expression, and comprehension as readers and active engagement in interactive and collaborative "book talks" with reading partners, the Butterfly Readers learn and use strategies for "partner reading".

The Butterfly Readers learn the partner reading strategies of "Jinx" (reading simultaneously), "Copy Cat" (alternating reading of the same page), and "See-Saw" (alternating page reading).

The Scholastic Storia app provides reading partners with access to leveled digital texts in "bookshelves" (I created) that correlate to the text leveling system used within the classroom library.

The Butterfly reading partners choose and use partner reading strategies with leveled digital texts.

The "read to me" capability of select ebooks (not all Storia ebooks include the capability to have the text read aloud) promotes the reading partners' use of fluency, rate, and expression as partners "Jinx" read- following the highlighted text.

first graders partner read I Have a Cold
in the Scholastic Storia iPad app

partner reading on the iPad -with the Storia app

As readers, the Butterflies grow and develop through daily independent reading and partner reading.  

The First Grade Butterflies have learned how to "read with" a partner using "I Read You Read" (alternating pages), "Copycat" (rereading each page), and "Jinx" (reading simultaneously).  The Butterflies have learned how to "talk with" a partner before, during, and after reading by making predictions, making connections, asking questions, checking for understanding, retelling, and reflecting on the reading.

The Butterfly readers have learned the importance of "reading with" a partner, to support decoding and fluency, and "talking with" a partner before, during, and after the reading, to support comprehension.

The Butterflies learned how to access the books available in the Storia iPad app to "read with" and "talk with" a reading partner.

Available books are organized on bookshelves.  Bookshelves are titled using the language of the organization of developmental reading levels in our classroom library (for leveled texts) and/or titled using the language of the organization of books in our classroom library.  The titles of the bookshelves support the Butterflies identification of "just right" books for independent and/or partner reading.

The Butterflies used their understanding of the organization of our classroom library to identify "just right" books for partner reading and to cooperatively choose a book(s) to "read with" and "talk with" their reading partner.

The Butterflies were excited to read books on the iPad and actively engaged with their reading partner in "reading with" and "talking with" one another as readers! 

Butterfly Reading Partners reading a Fly Guy book on the iPad

a Butterfly referencing a part of the text
to explain his thinking to his reading partner

Butterfly Readers partner reading on the iPad