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  2. READ 180 - Wikipedia

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    READ 180 is a reading intervention program created by the Scholastic Corporation (Scholastic). Its focus is to utilize adaptive technology to improve literacy in students in Grades 4–12 who read at least two years below their grade level. In 2011, Scholastic released its newest version, READ 180 Next Generation, aligned to meet the ...

  3. Direct memory access - Wikipedia

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    Direct memory access (DMA) is a feature of computer systems that allows certain hardware subsystems to access main system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU). [1] Without DMA, when the CPU is using programmed input/output , it is typically fully occupied for the entire duration of the read or write operation, and is thus ...

  4. Reading Recovery - Wikipedia

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    Reading. Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention approach designed for English-speaking children aged five or six, who are the lowest achieving in literacy after their first year of school. For instance, a child who is unable to read the simplest of books or write their own name, after a year in school, would be appropriate for a referral ...

  5. Learning disability - Wikipedia

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    Reading disorder (ICD-10 and DSM-IV codes: F81.0/315.00) Reading disorder is the most common learning disability. Of all students with specific learning disabilities, 70–80% have deficits in reading. The term "Developmental Dyslexia" is often used as a synonym for reading disability; however, many researchers assert that there are different ...

  6. Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud - Wikipedia

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    Reading is an area that has been extensively studied via the computational model system. The dual-route cascaded model (DRC) was developed to understand the dual-route to reading in humans. Some commonalities between human reading and the DRC model are: Frequently occurring words are read aloud faster than non-frequently occurring words.

  7. Accelerated Reader - Wikipedia

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    www .renaissance .com /products /accelerated-reader /. Accelerated Reader (AR) is an educational tool used to monitor and manage student's independent reading practice and reading comprehension in the English and Spanish languages respectively. This program works by assessing the student's performances and awarding points towards educational ...

  8. Reading for special needs - Wikipedia

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    Reading. Reading for special needs has become an area of interest as the understanding of reading has improved. Teaching children with special needs how to read was not historically pursued due to perspectives of a Reading Readiness model. [1] This model assumes that a reader must learn to read in a hierarchical manner such that one skill must ...

  9. Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia

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    Radio-frequency identification ( RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder called a tag, a radio receiver, and a transmitter. When triggered by an electromagnetic interrogation pulse from a nearby RFID reader device, the tag transmits ...