Helping kids become fluent readers with folktales from around the world | Interview with Steve Floyd - Free Educational videos for Students in K-12

Helping kids become fluent readers with folktales from around the world | Interview with Steve Floyd - By Lumos Learning

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00:0-1	Uh huh . I am Jake TBatista from Loomis Learning
00:05	. Today we have a special guest . Steve Floyd
00:08	. Welcome . He's the CEO of August published House
00:12	August House Publishing . Over the last 35 years ,
00:16	August House has published a highly acclaimed award winning selection
00:20	of picture books , story collections and resource books based
00:24	on the world's finest folktales . Congratulations . I'm looking
00:28	forward to learning more about you in August House .
00:30	Today . Before we jump to that , I'd like
00:33	to learn a little bit more about you . Could
00:35	you please tell us more about yourself and why you
00:37	decided to become a publisher of stories for kids ?
00:40	Sure , I've had a career outside of publishing and
00:44	really came to publishing in Children's books about 2000 and
00:47	four . I've been involved in Internet , um ,
00:51	interactive media , whole range of things . So we
00:54	look at stories and we look at publishing much different
00:57	than most people who grew up in print based publishing
01:00	. We see stories that should be shared anyway .
01:03	Any medium , uh , that the audience wants ,
01:06	so that's really a little different perspective there . Interesting
01:11	. Very interesting . So why are you guys so
01:14	excited about folk tales and where the benefits to kids
01:17	and educators of you kind of focusing on that sub
01:20	genre . Well , good question . Um , folktales
01:22	seemed like a natural to us for a number of
01:24	reasons . One , they were multicultural . That was
01:27	a key point for us to their character traits that
01:30	are highlighted and demonstrated in every folk tale . Uh
01:35	, folk tales were originally used not just for entertainment
01:37	and not for Children's stories , but to pass on
01:40	the village , the tribe or the country's , uh
01:43	, Corvette values . So whether it was things like
01:47	sharing or things like courage or whatever the attribute ,
01:50	maybe they were shared in stories . A lot of
01:53	times . The shaman , a lot of times one
01:54	of the elders , but the stories were a common
01:57	occurrence . Um , and they weren't just for kids
02:01	, So these were oral tradition , were passed down
02:04	over generation over generation . Most of the stories we
02:07	publish our hundreds , if not thousands of years old
02:10	, and we know they're good stories because they survived
02:12	the test of time . And that makes them very
02:15	exciting to see the multicultural aspect , the international global
02:18	aspect and the fact that these stories were first developed
02:23	, if you will , for the year and not
02:24	to be read . So it makes it easier in
02:26	some ways for young kids , especially emerging readers ,
02:29	to deal with picture books or story collections that are
02:33	, from the oral tradition . Fantastic . Yeah ,
02:37	so that kind of ties really well to our next
02:38	question , which is , you know , where did
02:40	this passionate about helping kids become fluent readers stem from
02:43	? And how important are these reading skills for Children's
02:46	overall development ? That's another good question . Um ,
02:49	I am a master's degree that I earned decades ago
02:52	from Indiana University and Education , with an emphasis on
02:55	instructional design and educational systems . The So I had
02:58	a long history of reading and my mother , in
03:01	fact , one of the things she said . She
03:02	gave me anything . It was a love of reading
03:04	that was going to the library every weekend , doing
03:06	things like that . So reading and stories have always
03:09	been important . As you look at the research ,
03:11	that's personal point of view . But if you look
03:13	at the research , whether it's the National Reading panel
03:15	or any other research has been developed by literacy association
03:19	, etcetera , um , core reading skills and those
03:24	fundamental reading skills are so critical for a child's self
03:27	esteem for a child's ability to succeed and later on
03:30	to finish school and actually enter into society and be
03:34	a productive , prosperous , contributing member of society .
03:38	So reading is at the core of everything we do
03:40	in the modern world . Wow . So I see
03:44	several titles are now available in the luminous Reading Buddy
03:47	program . Ah , what made it ? What motivated
03:49	you to bring these folk tales onto our online medium
03:52	? Um , we were really interested in the technology
03:56	. The way that you had translated the technology to
03:58	something was easy to use . Um , that really
04:01	focused on the issues of fluency , specifically , that
04:04	being one of the core reading skills , the national
04:06	reading panel calls out . And fluency , as you
04:09	know , is a very in labor intensive skilled to
04:12	help with kids . So the fact that limits had
04:16	been experimenting and developing and working with educators to do
04:19	this we just felt like the ease of use and
04:21	the fact that you can automate this process in a
04:23	positive way to be child centric and to be available
04:26	for kids to use , along with educators and along
04:29	with families , to develop those those core fluency skills
04:33	when they're so difficult to do one on one .
04:35	Mm . Makes sense . Um , what role does
04:38	vocabulary practice play in improving reading ? Fluency ? Well
04:42	, as you know , one of the attributes of
04:44	fluency is being able to read accurately on in a
04:47	timely manner with expression . Uh , if a child
04:50	has good vocabulary , then they're going to be more
04:52	confident . And they're gonna be , uh , a
04:54	little more braver , Let's say in their expression and
04:58	in their reading speeds , if they're not confident in
05:01	their vocabulary , then they're going to go slower .
05:03	They're going to be thinking about the words they won't
05:05	be automatically coming to mind . So that's going to
05:08	impact their fluency when they are assessed for their fluency
05:12	levels . So vocabulary is very critical , for that
05:15	makes sense . So I see the Children can access
05:18	to read along in the online program . How does
05:21	that read along ? Help Children become better readers ?
05:24	Um , in a lot of and a lot of
05:26	the literature people recommend guided reading and redo logs .
05:30	Um , and team reading is part of fluency .
05:33	Skill building . So a lot of times , child
05:36	is reading a passage three times , uh , potentially
05:39	once only once . Independently , um , so having
05:44	that narration in there to demonstrate and to coach kids
05:48	without correcting them so they can see it modeled for
05:51	them in a way that the words are pronounced accurately
05:54	, even another . Another attribute that is assessed in
05:57	fluency . And they see the pacing are here the
06:00	pacing . So that becomes a really good model for
06:03	them . Um , just like if you're learning a
06:05	physical sport , whether it's kicking a ball or throwing
06:08	a ball , having someone model that work with you
06:10	in practice and again , practice doesn't make perfect practice
06:15	makes permanent . So if you're practicing something that's been
06:18	well modeled and you're getting , let's say , relatively
06:21	consistent , accurate , specific feedback , it makes it
06:25	much easier to have those things that are permanent ,
06:28	more accurate . So you're not unlearning bad habits and
06:30	unlearning poor skills , but you're accelerating that speed without
06:36	causing extra stress for the child . So I think
06:39	it's it's a very efficient way to go , and
06:42	it certainly just makes common sense as well as support
06:44	from the from the reading literature . Yeah , good
06:47	to hear , um , as a publisher and a
06:49	CEO of a publishing house . How does listing your
06:52	title on the Loomis reading buddy platform . Help you
06:56	. There are thousands of picture books and thousands of
07:00	really wonderful Children's books out there today . Um ,
07:04	Discovery is number 12 and three for every publisher of
07:08	their titles . That's why for what we do ,
07:10	for example , program books that we publish have to
07:14	be award winners . They have to be well reviewed
07:17	. We have to have professional acceptance because again ,
07:20	the vast majority 80% of any books that we sell
07:22	go to schools and go to libraries , so they
07:25	have to be authentic . They have to be rich
07:27	and engaging . Um , so having that discovery ability
07:32	on the platform with Loomis is ideal for us because
07:36	some people think that digital media or digital books actually
07:41	cannibalized print books . We find just the opposite .
07:44	Um , it's it actually expands exposure . It expands
07:49	engagement . So again , whether people are engaging auditory
07:53	lee , um , digitally online or in print or
07:57	whatever way we think that's an important way for kids
07:59	to experience . The story , therefore becomes more engaging
08:02	, and they're more likely to remember it and hopefully
08:05	apply it and use it . So the Loomis platform
08:08	is Is this one more way to have our books
08:11	get exposure to kids and get exposure to educators who
08:14	can then enjoy them and use them . Great .
08:17	Ah , one final question here are you and your
08:19	team working on any new Children's stories right now ?
08:22	Actually , I'm glad you asked . Uh , in
08:24	April will be releasing kindness . Tales by Margaret Read
08:27	MacDonald Margaret is a retired librarian . PhD in folklore
08:31	travels the world . She's written over 55 books .
08:35	We think Kindness Tales is the ideal book coming out
08:39	this time when things are really confusing for all of
08:41	us adults and kids , we can all use a
08:43	little bit more kindness . So that book will be
08:45	launched this spring of 2021 and we're very excited about
08:50	it's got , I think , approximately 40 stories that
08:52	are a kindness and how acts of kindness lead to
08:56	a literally a better world . Wow , that's our
08:59	most immediate project right now that we're excited about what
09:02	a beautiful story that's going to be . Um ,
09:05	well , that was very informative . And I'm sure
09:07	we're all very excited about kindness tales coming out .
09:09	So I really appreciate you making the time for us
09:12	today and wish you the best of luck . Moving
09:13	forward . Thanks , Jake . We look forward to
09:16	our partnership . Good luck to you and

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Lumos Learning in conversation with Steve Floyd, Managing Partner of August House Publishers, about the availability of 7 popular children's stories by August House on the Lumos Reading Buddy platform! These folktales represent great oral traditions from around the world and are perfect for young children to learn some essential life lessons and become fluent readers. The Lumos Reading Buddy is an industry-first oral reading digital fluency program that integrates speech processing technologies with machine learning to provide empathetic oral reading fluency support for young readers.

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