1. Welcome to today’s webinar. The webinar will start promptly at
1 p.m. Central time. Until then, you may hear periodic announcements of our start time, but don’t worry if you hear silence for a while. We are here and look forward to sharing today’s topic with you.
While you are waiting, you can download the slides at
SkateKids: Reading Comprehension Reinvented

2. SkateKids: Reading Comprehension Reinvented

3. What are the basics of reading?

4. Are these the basics of reading?
Decoding
Fluency
Comprehension
These are skills we need to read.
We have to acquire these skills – they don’t develop automatically.
This doesn’t explain HOW we learn them.
There are even more basic skills

5. Cognition vs. Knowledge
What does a student have to know to complete a task? Vs. How does a student have to think to complete a task?

6. PASS Theory Planning Attention Simultaneous Successive
The basic psychological processes (how we think).
Planning
Thinking about how to do what you decide to do
Attention
Being alert and resisting distractions
Simultaneous
Getting the big picture
Successive
Following a sequence
Source: Jack Naglieri

7. Planning Determine, select and apply efficient solutions:
Evaluate a task
Select or develop a strategy to approach a task
Monitor progress during the task
Exercise impulse control and self-control
Control processing
Retrieval of knowledge
Source: Jack Naglieri

8. Attention Selectively attend to some stimuli and ignore others:
Focus on one thing and ignore others
Resist distractions in the environment
Sustain focus
See the details
Source: Jack Naglieri

9. Simultaneous Integrate stimuli into groups: Stimuli seen as a whole
Each piece must be related to the others
Recognize patterns
Get the overall idea
Source: Jack Naglieri

10. Successive Processing
Manage stimuli in a specific order:
Stimuli form a chain-like progression
Stimuli are not inter-related
Follow a series of instructions
Source: Jack Naglieri

11. Cognitive Processes Associated with Reading
Decoding
Sustained Attention, Visual Discrimination, Sequential Processing, Auditory Discrimination
Fluency
Visual Span, Flexible Attention, Processing Speed
Comprehension
Visualization, Working Memory, Planning

12. Working Memory
If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. He will push his helmet slightly to one side, scratch his head thoughtfully, and then he will point his huge white-gloved finger and say: “First to your right, second to your left, sharp right again, and you’re there. Good morning.” Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
Here’s an example of working memory. One of my favorite child books starts this way.
Obviously you can read it here, but imagine the story being read aloud, just using the language processing path in the brain.
Do you have an image in your mind of how to get to Cherry Tree Lane?
Your ability to visualize this scene and to hold the directions in your mind, later deciding whether to turn right or left at the first cross-street, is dependent on your ability to visualize and the capacity of your working memory.

13. SkateKids and Ramps To Reading
Integrate the cognitive skills necessary for reading with the literacy skills recommended by the National Reading Panel
Enhance any curriculum and any direct instructional setting
Delivered in an engaging digital game-based format
Recommended usage:
1 hour per week, 3 to minute sessions
Easy to implement
SkateKids (Ages 7 to 12), Ramps (Ages 4 to 7)

14. Demonstration

15. SkateKids Progress Report
These games have three levels.
Shows the levels complete for each of the SkateKids games. When you click on a bar (red) you get the next slide

16. SkateKids Progress Report

17. SkateKids – Soccorro School District, AZ

18. SkateKids – Soccorro School District, AZ

19. What Kids Say
"Skatekids is awesome and fun and everybody likes it. All of us want to play it so bad because we like it.“ “Hello Skate Kids Learning, I am ing you for a request of an account. The odd thing is that I'm a sophomore in college. In elementary school my fourth grade teacher had accounts for all of my classmates and I. I remember this website used to be very fun! I also remember the houses that you can decorate and the tune that played as the theme. I've tried remembering my username and password but it seems impossible to get it right. I basically just want to go through the games and see how it goes down from an older perspective. This might be a weird request but I'm determined to go through one of my favorite websites as a kid and a website that impacted me so much! Thank you for your consideration.”

20. Questions?

21. Let’s stay connected Betsy Hill bhill@mybrainware.com 773-250-6467
Let’s stay connected