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Aug 16, 2024
Developing Confident, Capable Writers: Process Writing Strategies | Webinar Recording
This webinar explores how to apply process writing and use mentor texts at the middle-school level to integrate reading and writing skills and increase students’ confidence and independence in all phases of the writing process. Erin Broudo covers genres such as narrative writing, claim/opinion, and compare/contrast to demonstrate how to teach genre in writing in
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Aug 7, 2024
Chall’s Stages of Reading Development
Stage 0: Prereading: Approximately Birth to Age 6. In this stage, children “play” read. By being read to, they have begun to understand that books contain words that provide meaning. They may “read” books from memory, start demonstrating book-handling skills, and begin “writing” the alphabet. Stage 1: Initial Reading and Decoding: Approximately Ages 6-7 /
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Jul 29, 2024
Use Multisensory Approaches
Consider these suggestions for implementing multisensory instruction: 1. Get students moving When asking students to brainstorm information, instead of handing students a blank sheet of paper, try a Round-Robin Brainstorm. Post large pieces of paper with different topic ideas on the classroom walls. Place students in small groups to generate knowledge and questions on each
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Jun 27, 2024
Teaching the Elaborated Paragraph
The Topic An elaborated paragraph begins with a topic sentence that needs the support of clear, logical ideas. Teachers can cue students for the topic sentences with a question. For example: Question: Is recycling beneficial to the environment? Topic Sentence: Recycling is beneficial to the environment. The Body The body of an elaborated paragraph supports
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Jun 10, 2024
Why DEIB Matters to Landmark Outreach
Unfortunately, students from marginalized social groups are often misidentified in consideration for special education services. Studies primarily indicate an overrepresentation of students of color, raising questions about bias. When Black students qualify for special education services, “there is evidence that they are more likely to be identified as intellectually disabled or behaviorally disordered rather than
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May 16, 2024
Reading Guidebook
Download our newest resource, The Reading Guidebook, and learn what the science tells us about reading instruction and why it matters. Today in the United States, an elementary school student would have better odds of surviving the Titanic than becoming a competent reader. Even before the prolonged school closures introduced by COVID, most American students
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Apr 26, 2024
How Can Educators Use AI in the Classroom?
In fact, AI has been lingering in our periphery since 1997 when Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster who had been victorious over both humans and computers throughout his career, was beaten by an IBM supercomputer with the whole world watching. People demonstrated the same polarized reactions to his loss that have emerged during the
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Apr 2, 2024
Developing Confident, Capable Writers: Process Writing Strategies
There are plenty of articles about all of the reasons why writing can be so difficult for students with LBLD, from basic transcription skills to idea generation to proofreading to the numerous executive function demands underlying the entire writing process. Even just reading and understanding the prompt is a skill that can require direct instruction
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Mar 6, 2024
Metacognition and Reading Comprehension
Metacognitive practices should be a cornerstone of a language-based classroom. Explicit instruction in metacognition allows students to make deep connections between what they are reading and previously learned material. It also helps them to make sense of what they are reading and learning to determine when material does not make sense and to decide which
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