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Cranium CoRE : A Web 2.0 Community of Reading Engagement using Educational Gaming to build the skills of Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.  This community promotes good THINKING!

Our goal is to create a virtual community of teachers, students and parents who not only use our methods to engage readers, but also to compose their own games for the sake of improving language skills, especially reading comprehension.

The CraniumCoRE is a methodology for motivating students of any age to be better: 

•  Readers - Speakers - Listeners - Writers 

The Process used with this methodology includes, in this sequence: 

•  Read Aloud
•  Play the Game 
•  Discuss the Text
•  Defend your Answer

The language skills involved with this process; reading, writing, speaking and listening, are about THINKING. You improve these skills by doing them! The challenge for all educators is how to motivate students to make practicing these skills as enjoyable as other things students do for fun (i.e., video games, the Internet, Game Boys, etc.).

CraniumCoRE is a cross-curricular solution to this challenge at both the elementary & secondary level. The focus of this process is discussion. The higher order thinking questions used in this method are a springboard for thematic conversation leading to improved comprehension skills. The goal is to have our students think independently at times. It is also a goal to show them how to be interdependent, collaborative learners.

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