Reading Rockets

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Reading Rockets

• Sarah White

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What is Reading Rockets?

• Reading Rockets is a nonprofit organization that
  aims to inspire parents and teachers to touch the
  life of a child and to teach them how to read or
  help those who are struggling.

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What do they do?

• Reading Rockets uses different types of
  technology to help educate children on how to
  read and help those who are struggling.
• The program uses PBS programs, online website,
  programming, teleconferences, and free webcasts
  to help spread the information.

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Main Source

• Reading Rockets website, www.readingrockets.org,
  is their main source of information to the
  public.
• This website includes information about books and
  authors in order to help make reading more
  enjoyable.
• Also, there are many articles and strategies that
  parents and teachers can use to help students
  learn how to read.

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Great Information

• This website is not just for parents or helping
  one child learn how to read, but there is a great
  deal of information for teachers in the
  classroom.
• The website offers many articles on new
  strategies in the classroom and also products
  that can help all children learn not only how to
  read, but to also improve their skills.

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Types of Information

• The articles include various information ranging
  from topics of how to teach a child to read to
  special education. They also inform the reader on
  the appropriate ways of helping a student to read
  as well as what to look for in their reading
  skills. There are also different activities
  provided by the website to help increase reading
  at home.

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PBS Show

• There are different specials that PBS has
  broadcasted to help inform parents, teachers, and
  students about reading.
• Launching Young Readers is the first in a series
  that is devoted to exploring the different stages
  a child goes through when learning how to read.

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PBS Show Continued

• Reading Rocks! Is a show that uses hip-hop music
  and goes through the path many children take when
  they are first struggling to read.
• Empowering Parents is reading rockets show of
  advice for parents who have children who are
  struggling with learning how to read.

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PBS Show Contd

• Becoming Bilingual is the program where different
  bilingual schools are shown so that parents,
  teachers, and students can see the importance of
  learning another language as well as how
  difficult it is for ELL students.
• A Tale of Two Schools is a program that shows how
  some schools and students are having trouble with
  reading and what it would take to turn the
  schools around.

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Has Reading Rockets Helped?

• Reading Rockets has won many awards including
  2006 Parents Choice Silver Award for their help
  in providing information to everyone about
  learning how to read and teaching children how to
  read. They hope to continue this trend by making
  more programs to broadcast online and on PBS as
  well as offer more articles of advice and
  products.
• The website is in a very easy to use format and
  is offered in Spanish.