3 tips on how to teach reading through technology: 1. Qualify Your Technology Needs There are dozens of tools available to help you teach reading with technology and all of them vary in one way or another. Take a minute to consider what it is you and your students need, which can help to narrow the options. To do so, answer a few important questions: What is my goal? What is the main goal of this product? Do I need the product to be common core-aligned? Will the product let me monitor my students’ progress? For example, you may think: My number one goal is to make reading more fun for my students. The main goal of the product will be to build a community around reading with my students. I need a product that comes with built-in, common core-aligned comprehension questions. I want to be able to check-in whenever at any time to see which students are excelling and which are falling behind. In this case, Whooo’s Reading, a social platform that encourages students to read mo...