I’m very happy with the results of using the Chromebooks to access Immersive Reader (free by the way) in Office 365. Students who were studied for the Action Research grew and became fluent readers. Last school year I just concentrated on sight words. These are definitely important, but when I added their decodable books to the reading centers (on…Read More

I received 5 HP Chromebooks. With these Chromebooks, I am using Microsoft’s newest softward (free by the way) called Immersive Reader. With this software, the struggling readers in my class are now interacting with sight words (similar to digital flash cards) and stories. After I type the stories and/or sight words into either Word or OneNote,the…Read More

Project Title: All Hands on Tech: Reaching Struggling Readers with Office 365

Area of Focus and/or Research Question: The area of focus for the Action Research project is reading fluency. If a child is a struggling reader, he/she reads slowly and spends a great deal of time decoding words which in turn leads to poor comprehension. Acceptable…Read More