In conversation with Arielle Haughee | Lumos Reading Buddy Partnership - By Lumos Learning
00:02 | Hello , everyone . I'm Jake Dee Batista from Loomis | |
00:06 | Learning . Today we have a special guest . Aerial | |
00:09 | . Holly . Welcome , Mario . How are you | |
00:11 | doing today ? Thank you so much . I'm doing | |
00:13 | great . Great Aerial is the CEO of Orange , | |
00:16 | Boston Publishing Orange . Boston Publishing is a small press | |
00:20 | located in Central Florida that publishes adult and Children's books | |
00:24 | . There focuses on stories about love , wellness and | |
00:27 | humor . I'm looking forward to learning more about you | |
00:30 | and Orange Boston today . Before we jump to that | |
00:33 | , I'd like to learn a little bit more about | |
00:34 | you , though . Could you please tell us about | |
00:37 | yourself and why you decided to become a publisher of | |
00:39 | stories for kids ? Well , um , so I | |
00:43 | started out as a teacher and had a great passion | |
00:45 | for teaching . Um , I worked specifically with kids | |
00:49 | with special needs . Um , and a lot of | |
00:52 | times , the brain works better when you can form | |
00:56 | information into a story . So I kind of got | |
00:58 | in the habit of doing that for some of my | |
00:59 | kids who had a harder time learning things , Especially | |
01:01 | with math . You can turn it into a story | |
01:03 | . They learn it easier . Um , so after | |
01:06 | I talked for a few years and a few different | |
01:08 | districts . I had my first child . I was | |
01:11 | staying home with him . And , um , I | |
01:16 | just started writing , and I loved it writing some | |
01:18 | of these stories down . And then after I had | |
01:20 | my second son , I decided , Hey , I | |
01:23 | really want to do something with this . Which is | |
01:25 | when I started getting into , you know , learning | |
01:28 | about the publishing industry , learning about writing professionally , | |
01:32 | um , spent a good good year learning all about | |
01:35 | Children's books and and and how they're written specifically picture | |
01:39 | books . And then I started publishing them . Um | |
01:42 | , so that's kind of what brought me here today | |
01:45 | , um , is starting out teaching and then kind | |
01:48 | of incorporated my love of writing and storytelling and turning | |
01:51 | it into a job . Wow . So why did | |
01:54 | Orange Boston decided to focus on the theme of love | |
01:57 | ? And how is this complex message conveyed to Children | |
01:59 | in your stories ? Um , so this is this | |
02:03 | is a kind of a personal thing . Um , | |
02:06 | for me , I just wanted to put more love | |
02:10 | out into the world . I'm I worked with a | |
02:12 | lot of kids who came from , um , not | |
02:18 | the best homes . Um , I worked with kids | |
02:20 | who , you know , their parents were , um | |
02:23 | , in prison . Their parents had drug issues . | |
02:26 | Um , parents who who weren't as loving I had | |
02:30 | , you know , students who were homeless students who | |
02:34 | who actually left at the school and their parents didn't | |
02:36 | come back . So I had some really , really | |
02:40 | heartbreaking situations with kids . And I just wanted to | |
02:45 | kind of find a way to share some of the | |
02:47 | love that , you know , I have for Children | |
02:49 | in general . Um , out with the world . | |
02:52 | Um , so that's kind of why I focused on | |
02:54 | love . My first picture book was grumble , er | |
02:57 | and it's all about a grumpy character who keeps getting | |
03:00 | love , um , stuck to him . And in | |
03:03 | this book , um , the love actually is almost | |
03:07 | like little characters because their little hearts So Children , | |
03:11 | you know , they understand , you know , kind | |
03:14 | of that warmth in that fuzziness . And when you | |
03:16 | may turn love into a character itself , it makes | |
03:18 | it even more even easier to understand . So personifying | |
03:22 | love helps with with kids and and showing , you | |
03:26 | know , showing loving actions and and loving words . | |
03:30 | I think our our ways that you communicate the message | |
03:32 | of loved kids to , um , Well , that's | |
03:36 | thank you for sharing that . That's definitely personal and | |
03:38 | an awesome message of your brand . So , you | |
03:42 | know , with the with that mind , why are | |
03:44 | you passionate about helping kids become fluent readers ? And | |
03:46 | how important are these reading skills for Children's overall development | |
03:50 | ? Oh , boy , huge huge reading is is | |
03:53 | the key that unlocks , you know , so many | |
03:56 | opportunities in life being in fluent reader and once again | |
04:00 | , kind of getting back to some of the kids | |
04:01 | that I worked with . They didn't have the support | |
04:03 | at home , um , either because their parents worked | |
04:06 | a lot . Or sometimes their parent maybe wasn't , | |
04:08 | um they didn't have a good experience in school or | |
04:11 | they were uncomfortable , or , um , they needed | |
04:15 | something else to kind of help . That's why I | |
04:16 | think programs like this are great . Um , that | |
04:19 | can kind of help parents , um , teach kids | |
04:22 | . Um , but yeah . So learning how to | |
04:25 | read is what can help , you know , kind | |
04:28 | of set set you on your path in life and | |
04:31 | open up so many different opportunities . And it starts | |
04:34 | out really young . Um and and it's almost like | |
04:38 | you want to catch the kids young because the the | |
04:41 | if they are behind in reading , and you don't | |
04:44 | catch it when they're younger , The older they get | |
04:46 | , the more behind they are . Each year they'll | |
04:47 | get more and more and more behind . So , | |
04:49 | um , helping helping these kids with , you know | |
04:52 | , some sort of supplemental , um , curriculums supplement | |
04:56 | software , supplemental . Anything to help catch them up | |
05:00 | and help bring them up to speed earlier is fantastic | |
05:04 | . Um , so that's that's kind of where my | |
05:06 | passion is . I I want I want as many | |
05:07 | kids as possible to have all the opportunities in life | |
05:10 | . You know , I don't want to have a | |
05:11 | kid have a closed door because because of , you | |
05:14 | know , struggling with reading when they were young . | |
05:17 | Yeah . Wow . Well , thank you . That | |
05:18 | that definitely , uh , is a great stance . | |
05:21 | Um , so , you know , falling up on | |
05:23 | that . I see that several of your titles are | |
05:25 | now available on the Loomis reading buddy platform . Uh | |
05:28 | , what motivated you to bring those stories onto our | |
05:30 | medium ? Um well , you know what ? Um | |
05:34 | I enjoy being able to get my stories out in | |
05:38 | all kinds of avenues , so I like having them | |
05:41 | available . All you know , in in stores and | |
05:44 | online , and also through , um , different websites | |
05:47 | and different Softwares . Um , and I really enjoyed | |
05:50 | what I liked about the Loomis software is how well | |
05:53 | thought out it was as far as fluency is a | |
05:56 | really important element of , um , learning how to | |
06:00 | read . Um , And so this is a really | |
06:03 | great guided program for building fluency , um , in | |
06:07 | particular . And it also uses repeated reading , which | |
06:10 | is a huge , uh , teaching strategy . Um | |
06:14 | , for improving readers . Most most reading curriculums are | |
06:18 | built upon repeated reading . Um , so I was | |
06:23 | really impressed with how everything was laid out with Loomis | |
06:26 | . And I wanted to , you know , participate | |
06:28 | in it and get my titles out there and have | |
06:31 | my titles help . You know , kids , kids | |
06:34 | with fluency and help them help them become better readers | |
06:37 | . Absolutely , absolutely . And what role does vocabulary | |
06:40 | practice play in improving reading ? Fluency ? Um , | |
06:44 | so vocabulary practice is another element of core reading skills | |
06:49 | . Um , and you'll if you'll notice you think | |
06:52 | about , you know , uh , being able to | |
06:55 | understand the next level of text and and a lot | |
06:59 | of times that has to do with vocabulary . Um | |
07:01 | , just bumping up to the next level improving in | |
07:04 | your in your reading and your overall word knowledge . | |
07:07 | Um so fluency helps you understand the words better , | |
07:11 | but vocabulary is what kind of can push you up | |
07:14 | to the next level . Um , so I think | |
07:17 | it's incredibly important to do those word word understanding practices | |
07:22 | in order to gain those skills and improve your overall | |
07:25 | word knowledge . Okay , Yeah , that makes a | |
07:28 | lot of sense . And I see that Children can | |
07:29 | access to read along in the online program . How | |
07:32 | does read along help Children become better readers ? Well | |
07:36 | , you know , it's it's great because it gives | |
07:38 | feedback . Um , and kids are able to see | |
07:43 | how they're doing almost in real time . Um , | |
07:46 | it's really hard as a teacher to do that with | |
07:49 | every single kid . Um , so I think that | |
07:52 | particular part of the program is wonderful for giving feedback | |
07:56 | to kids . Great . Yeah . And that teacher | |
07:58 | modeling definitely a strong attribute of our program . Um | |
08:02 | , as a publisher , how does listing your title | |
08:04 | and Loomis reading buddy help you ? Um , well | |
08:08 | , it helps me because I get my books and | |
08:10 | more different and in more places in a different , | |
08:12 | uh , different avenues . Um , it's also another | |
08:16 | way for me to earn additional income . Um , | |
08:20 | it's important , I think , to try to , | |
08:23 | you know , jump on every opportunity you can as | |
08:26 | far as is making income , especially because Children's books | |
08:30 | can be expensive to make . So you want to | |
08:31 | make sure that you can give your book every opportunity | |
08:36 | for success . And I think this is another opportunity | |
08:38 | for your book to have success . Great final question | |
08:43 | . Just looking forward a little bit . Are you | |
08:44 | and your team working on anything new right now that | |
08:46 | you'd like to share or talk about ? Yes . | |
08:49 | So , um , we have , uh my best | |
08:52 | selling picture book is grumbling . Um , the one | |
08:55 | where it's a grumpy character and the love gets stuck | |
08:57 | to him . Um , he keeps trying to get | |
08:59 | it off and get it away . Um , I | |
09:01 | decided to do another book kind of in this series | |
09:05 | with the same illustrator , but switching it and having | |
09:08 | it be the opposite . So now it's a really | |
09:10 | happy character called Piper and instead of , you know | |
09:13 | , love getting stuck to her , Um , I | |
09:16 | mean , mean things get stuck to her . I | |
09:18 | call them the Uglies . So it's the reverse of | |
09:21 | grumblers . And so that is what the illustrator now | |
09:23 | she's working on the artwork . It's really cute . | |
09:26 | I'm the biggest fan of Marina . She did grumblers | |
09:29 | . So I'm really excited about this next title coming | |
09:31 | up because it's about being happy and being cheery and | |
09:36 | not letting other people dim your glow . Um , | |
09:40 | and I think that's , you know , something that's | |
09:42 | important for kids to learn because you know , kids | |
09:44 | are mean . Sometimes you've got to learn to , | |
09:47 | you know , keep moving on , and the sooner | |
09:50 | you can learn to just brush people off and they're | |
09:53 | nonsense . The younger you learn that the better . | |
09:55 | Absolutely , absolutely . Well , this is very informative | |
09:58 | . I really appreciating the time tacos today . Best | |
10:01 | of luck with your new releases as well as the | |
10:04 | reading body platform . All right . Thank you so | |
10:06 | much . All right , |
DESCRIPTION:
"Two award-winning stories by Arielle Haughee are live on the Lumos Reading Buddy platform! Joy Ride and Grumbler perfectly align with the core mission of Orange Blossom publishing - ""We want a story to stay with us after the reading is long finished"". During the interview, Arielle shares her passion for helping kids become fluent readers and how bringing two of her most successful children's storybooks to the Lumos Reading Platform allows her to create an additional revenue source and offer an interactive learning experience to her young 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. By bringing their stories to the Reading Buddy platform, children's book authors and publishers can benefit from the Lumos Platform, Audience, and Technology!"
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