International Literacy Association Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1: How Long to Read

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Rodney Kohler

ED638 Fall 2021

Dr. M. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1

 

How long to read (https://howlongtoread.com), is a very effective literacy website designed especially for readers you want to know the amount of time to spend on reading a book. The site is very engaging with a database more than 12 million books. How long to read is a site where you are also required to sign up for free. Once complete signing up, it will redirect you to the homepage, where you will have your own account.

With your own account, you can create your own bookshelf in the My Books section. Creating your own bookshelf allows you to track your time on the books that you selected. This way readers can compare their reading on varieties of books of their choice. The Reading Speed section gives you collections of selected passages sorted by their genres and difficulties. This section averages your reading speed with variety of reading books to choose from.

When calculating your reading speed, you simply type in the title of the book you want to read, start the timer, and read the paragraph selections shown on the screen. When the reading timer stopped, this site will gives you the amount of hours that you will spend to complete reading the book. This site can be very effective, especially for devoted readers that want to spend their weekend occupied with a great book. This site will simply calculate the amount of time, whether they can complete the book before work or school on Monday morning.

  

 

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