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Apr 14, 2021
Study Skills to Support Language in the Math Classroom
Although math is the study of numbers, there is much language inherent in teaching this content area. There are many essential math vocabulary terms that students need to understand and categorize. For example, students need to understand and recognize the relationship between the different types of quadrilaterals in order to be able to cut and
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Apr 22, 2022
Student Perspectives on Executive Function
In order to better understand the students we work with, we wanted to capture their understanding of who they are as learners and what they think about school when it’s hard and when it’s easy. We interviewed two senior students at Landmark to gain insight into how they view themselves as students. Question: Describe your
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Mar 31, 2022
The Invaluable Paraprofessional
It is indisputable — paraprofessionals are valuable members of the educational team! These are the people who educators rely on to assist students in the learning process. Each school has their own job title to identify paraprofessionals, such as teaching assistant, aide, or paraeducator. A paraprofessional may be assigned to one student, a small cohort
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Nov 15, 2018
The Reading and Writing Connection
Reading and writing skills are the cornerstones of academic proficiency, and there are many cognitive processes that must be coordinated in order for students to access content and demonstrate mastery. Literacy experts believe that reading is developed through a series of skills that help us connect our speech sounds to letters, those letters to words,
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Jan 24, 2022
Executive Function and Process Writing
Using 5-Step Writing Process At Landmark, teachers help students develop written language skills through a consistent, research-based, multi-step writing process that occurs in two distinct phases: the prewriting phase (brainstorm, organize), which is all about generating and organizing ideas, and the writing phase (rough draft, edit/proofread, final draft), which tasks students to take all of
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Nov 18, 2021
Supporting Students in Developing Automatic Word Recognition
Why do we need to perform rocket science for some students? Reading researcher, Maryanne Wolf, reports in her book Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (2007) that reading ability is not an inherent genetic trait in humans: it is a specific skill that must be taught. Spoken language has
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Oct 28, 2022
Building Contextual Reading Fluency Through Phrase-Level Practice
Building your repertoire of phrase-level activities can help you address the fluency needs of a broad range of students. Let’s look at three different types of students that may benefit from phrase-level fluency instruction: Emergent readers: Using isolated phrase practice or building from the phrase-level into passages can increase automaticity and provide the structure that
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Nov 29, 2021
The Simple View of Reading
Decoding refers to word-level reading and linguistic comprehension refers to the ability to understand the spoken language in which the words are written. When students are able to decode, they engage their cipher skills and word-specific knowledge. Cipher skills reflect an understanding of the code of the language and then use that code to read
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Oct 12, 2021
Paraphrasing to Support Reading Comprehension
Reflect back on the first pages of To Kill a Mockingbird. They make many references to American history and relevant locations in the American south: Andrew Jackson, “Creeks up the creek,” Battle of Hastings, Mobile, Montgomery, and the list goes on. Imagine trying to make a mental movie of the setting of this novel if
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