Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).

ATTN: SCHOOL LIBRARIANS

(*when students can read well enough to use them)

Nearly two-thirds of all U.S. children cannot read on grade level. For many of them, reading is a laborious and frustrating experience that causes them to feel bad about themselves. It is little wonder they do not voluntarily frequent libraries.


We want to work with you to make your library dramatically better able to help these kids.  Together we can make your library a place where any student, regardless of their reading skills, background knowledge, or primary language, can receive individualized instruction and support while they are reading anything, on any device, in your library.

We call this tool the “Magic Ladder”.  Students can learn to use it on their own in just minutes. By following a few simple steps, it improves their reading by helping them learn to recognize and understand any unfamiliar word they encounter.  (Try it now, click on any word in the paragraphs of this page and keep clicking through the hints until you hear the word sounded-out)

This is not a complicated human-led or computer-based ‘course’ of reading instruction. Instead, the Magic Ladder is a tool that turns every single word, on virtually every page of the internet, into its own reading tutor and support system. Rather than kids having to remember and apply abstract rules to work-out unfamiliar words, The Magic Ladder provides visible and audible pronunciation cues, animated sound-outs, definitions, synonyms, and multiple translations – and it does so instantly on-demand, during the real-time flow of the students’ reading.

The only thing learners need to do is click or touch every word they don’t know and keep clicking it until they do. By this simple process, reading difficulties will no longer bar access to learning from and enjoying online content. By this simple process, each word they don’t know becomes a confidence imbuing environment for improving reading. It’s inevitably the way of the future.

You can find out more about the Magic Ladder by visiting these pages:

Magic Ladder Stewards Page   –   About the Magic Ladder

There are a series of Magic Ladder tools that are 100% free for use in your library:
The Magic Ladder Library:
https://mlc.learningstewards.org/ includes over 200 stories that have the Magic Ladder built-in.
The Magic Ladder Chrome Extension:
https://goo.gl/cLvVYC adds the Magic Ladder to your library’s computers and works with millions of pages on the internet.
The Magic Ladder “MyStuff” feature:
https://mlc.learningstewards.org/help/#mystuff  enables librarians to share documents with students that open with Magic Ladder help and support.
The Magic Ladder Copy-Paste-PQ feature:
https://mlc.learningstewards.org/help/#paste-pq allows you or your students to copy ANY content from any source and paste it into a window with built-in Magic Ladder support.
The Magic Ladder Embed Code:
https://mlc.learningstewards.org/about/#embed A short and simple html script that adds the Magic Ladder to every word in any webpage or website your library controls (for examples: Story Preservation InitiativeThe Hechinger Report,Children of the Code, Learning Stewards). 

Please try these tools and experience for yourself how easy they are to use, and how powerfully they address the needs of so many of your students. They are ad-free and spyware-free. Please use them to help struggling readers enjoy and benefit from your library while they improve their school and life futures!

We are here to support you.  If we can be of any assistance in getting your library started using the Magic Ladder, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Please share these resources with your friends and colleagues!

Thanks for your time and for all you do to help steward healthy learning.

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2 Responses to ATTN: SCHOOL LIBRARIANS

  1. nvadvocate September 15, 2018 at 8:54 pm #

    nothing is working and your Children of the Code pages come up with safety warnings due to certificate problems?

    • Learning-Activist September 16, 2018 at 5:01 am #

      Thank you. We are working on the problem and should have access restored later today.

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