Julie Stubblefield Presents Reading Glue to Improve Reading Skills
One of the best gifts parents can give children is a lifelong love of reading. Today’s cool person is Julie Stubblefield. Along with her husband, James, she founded Reading Glue. It enables parents to help young children improve their reading skills and comprehension. For those going to school, the Reading Glue website wants to build on the skills learned in school. The name refers to reading strategies that stick. Reading Glue mainly applies to readers through elementary school age.
Parents can provide reading activities to stimulate and enrich a child’s reading experiences. Beginning readers, which Reading Glue defines as children in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, should know their letters and sounds and read some short words. Books for this group should have many pictures and few words on a page, Stubblefield suggests.
As a first-grade teacher for 12 years, Stubblefield has had the opportunity to try out various literacy approaches with her students. She holds a master’s degree in literacy and is qualified to teach English as a Second Language (ESL). Her own children are 2 and 5, in one of the age groups Reading Glue aims to help. She says her 5-year-old is about to start kindergarten and is close to reading on his own.
From talking to parents, she knows that many want to help their children with reading, but aren’t sure how. That is one of the driving forces behind Reading Glue. It gives parents ways to help children better understand what they read. Through activities based on what they are reading, children will retain and visualize information better. Children think of this as fun, not work. Parents can keep track of time spent reading or pages read, to see progress, with the site’s reading logs. To use the Reading Glue tools for parents more effectively, request online tech support.
A game Stubblefield recommends for beginning readers is writing short words, such as “I,” “the” and “go,” each on a separate Post-it note and placing them around the house. The child must read the word before going through the door or whatever activity takes place in that location. Move the notes around to make sure the child is really recognizing the word.
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The Stubblefields also consulted with teachers, seeking their ideas for continuing the reading experience outside the classroom. Reading Glue welcomes ongoing involvement from parents and teachers. James Stubblefield, an engineer, brings technical and programming knowledge to the project.
Founded in December 2011 and launched in June 2013, Reading Glue was one of Tech Cocktail’s Chicago’s hottest startups for a July 2013 event.
Julie Stubblefield and Reading Glue help turn the home into a classroom, without the children even realizing it.
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