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Feb 28, 2024
Resources to Support the Writing Process: Brainstorm to Final Draft
At Landmark School, students are required to follow a five-step writing process. In order to create checks and balances as ideas evolve into written language, we approach the writing process with the following: brainstorming, organizing, composing a rough draft, proofreading, and making final edits before turning it in. Breaking a daunting task like writing an
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Feb 27, 2024
Provide Models
Executive function researchers, such as Russell Barkley (2019), assert that the ability to picture the steps required to reach a goal is a main function of the executive functions. Further, noted executive function coach and expert Sarah Ward (2014) outlines that without a model or a clear vision of the end goal, students “are open
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Feb 18, 2024
Process Writing: An Overview for Teachers
The Prewriting Phase The prewriting phase is essential to helping students generate and organize their thoughts prior to writing. It establishes the roadmap of the writing piece, allowing them to see where they are going with their ideas and how they will get there. Writing without working through the steps of the prewriting phase is
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Feb 1, 2024
Finding the Main Idea
Strategies to Find Topics and Main Ideas The topic is a word or phrase that states the subject of a text (what it is about) and should be located first. The main idea is the point the author is making about the topic. To locate the topic in a reading selection, encourage students to see
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Jan 16, 2024
More Fun than Memorization: Interactive Strategies for Spelling Success
Teaching spelling can also be emotional. It can be hard for the educator to prioritize this essential activity as spell check and autocorrect become smarter, more integral supports within our primary modes of modern communication (like texting and email). Even for the teacher who has successfully integrated technology, spelling is hard because the tools available
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Dec 8, 2023
A Morphophonemic Approach to Decoding and Vocabulary
So, why does it seem so hard? English is a deep orthography, meaning that it is a morphophonemic language, not solely a phonetic one. A phonetic language, such as Italian, has a near one-to-one correspondence between sounds and their spellings. In Italian, there are 21 graphemes (spellings) that correspond to 28 sounds. While some Italian
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Nov 5, 2023
An AI Tsunami is Coming for Education
Like so many things, how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will transform the lives and work of educators begins with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It was 1928, and Ub Iwerks was in trouble. He and his partner, Walter E. Disney, had just lost the rights to their animated gold mine, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Following Oswald’s premier
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Nov 1, 2023
The Executive Functions and Literacy
The graphic below provides a visual representation of the intersection of these skills. Language and literacy skills include listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Study skills include flexible and appropriate use of strategies for managing materials, time and language/information. Self-efficacy (the belief that one’s actions are related to outcomes) includes skills in self-awareness, self-assessments, and self-advocacy.
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Nov 1, 2023
Supporting Orthographic Mapping Skills in Emergent Readers
Oxford Languages defines mapping as the act of being “associated with or linked to (an equivalent group).” If orthography deals with the written representation of language, how then, do we map orthographically? In many ways, it is as complex as it sounds. Orthographic mapping is the process by which words are stored in the brain
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