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Wood, Julie M. was born on March 5, 1949 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Frederick Paul and Eileen Mary Laffey.
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Literacy Online: New Tools for Struggling Readers and Writers
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In recent years, while the computer has gone from a schoolhouse novelty to an invaluable teaching tool, Julie Wood has researched how twenty-first century technologies can help all students achieve full literacy. In Literacy Online, she demonstrates how strategically employing your classroom's computer can help you find new solutions to a perennial challenge faced by every elementary teacher: engaging and encouraging struggling students while developing their reading and writing skills. All you need to do is get students to the keyboard, then Literacy Online's practical suggestions for using computers will develop underachieving students' literacy skills in a project-based environment rich with meaning. Wood demonstrates how digital-based lessons encourage growth in seven key literacy characteristics: • word recognition • fluency • comprehension • vocabulary • reading and writing across the curriculum • process Writing • motivation. Literacy Online shares concrete ideas for teaching and planning in support struggling students as well as guidelines for evaluating the helpfulness of websites and software. In addition, a companion website (http://www.heinemann.com/literacyonline) features reproducible brainstorming sheets and links to successful model programs across the country where the literacy abilities of students have improved dramatically thanks to the integration of technology. Best of all, Literacy Online is written for any teacher. Technophobes will begin helping emerging readers overcome their difficulties on Monday morning with easy-to-use tips that capitalize on basic skills like word processing, browsing the Internet, and communicating by email, while technophiles will find innovative options to improve students' reading and writing sooner by extending into web design, the use of a variety of computer gadgetry, and even speech recognition software.
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Julie M. Wood
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Julie M. Wood, American educational consultant. Recipient Research Fellowship award, Action for Children's television, 1995, 1996; Advanced Doctoral grantee, Harvard University, 1997-1998, Teaching, Curriculum, Innovation grantee, 2000. Member of Women in Technology (co-founder 1993), American Education Research Association, International Reading Association, Harvard Club (New York City).
Education
Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education cum laude, University Connecticut, 1971. Master of Arts in Reading Instruction cum laude, University Connecticut, 1972. Master of Education in Technology in Education, Harvard University, 1992.
Doctor of Education in Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University, 1999.
Career
Teaching fellow Harvard Graduate School Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994—1995, instructor, 1997—1998, director Jeanne S. Chall Reading Laboratory, 1999—2000, lecturer, since 1999. Professor for literacy courses Boston Teacher Residency Program. Founder, owner, director The Reading Loft, Amherst, New Hampshire, 1975—1983.
Co-founder, co-director Literacy Institute, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1997. Non-resident tutor Adams House Harvard University, Cambridge, since 1993. Director training American Reads Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1998—2001.
Writer, designer Education Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts, 2000—2001. Educational consultant Disney Interactive, Burbank, California, 2001. Consultant Blues Clues Nickelodeon, New York City, 2001.
Writer, web expert Scholastic, Incorporated, New York York City, 2001—2002. Director research Soliloquoy Learning, Needham, Massachusetts, 2002—2003. Speaker in field.
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Literacy Online: New Tools for Struggling Readers and Writers
( In recent years, while the computer has gone from a sch...)
- Literacy Online: New Tools for Struggling Readers and Writers 1st edition by Wood, Julie M (2004) Paperback
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Literacy Online: New Tools for Struggling Readers and Writers
Membership
Member of Women in Technology (co-founder 1993), American Education Research Association, International Reading Association, Harvard Club (New York City).
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Married John Armstead Wood, Junior, September 9, 1989. Stepchildren: Crispin, Georgia.
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American
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1971
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1972
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1992
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1999
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1994 - 1995
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Recipient Research Fellowship award, Action for Children's television, 1995, 1996. Advanced Doctoral grantee, Harvard University, 1997-1998, Teaching, Curriculum, Innovation grantee, 2000.Recipient Research Fellowship award, Action for Children's television, 1995, 1996. Advanced Doctoral grantee, Harvard University, 1997-1998, Teaching, Curriculum, Innovation grantee, 2000.