Empowering Emerging Readers: Using Computational Thinking and Robotics to Support Decoding

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This session explores how computational thinking and robotics can be used to broaden access to computer science in early childhood and elementary classrooms, while supporting reading instruction and intervention. We will share an overview of our work and provide insights for using robots to support literacy development, specifically targeting skills to support decoding. Participants will receive classroom tips and tricks from a current interventionist and literacy teacher, and we’ll provide links to sample activities that can be used as-is or...