Engaged reading is something I continuously practice with learners. When explaining this practice with students I often tell them to interact with the text by highlighting important details, jotting down short gist statements, and making connections along the way. While these practices are all sound, many learners still struggle to hone in on the mostContinue reading “Beyond Highlighting: 3 Effective Reading Engagement Practices”
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The Secret Sauce is Data
The teacher’s goal is to help the students learn and grow. Educators do this by providing instruction that includes engaging exercises, scaffolding, differentiated activities, and more. After providing such instruction, the teacher will often give an assessment to learners. This isn’t always a formal assessment, sometimes it is an exit ticket, sometimes it is aContinue reading “The Secret Sauce is Data”
Four Reasons Teens Need Read Alouds
In the realm of education, certain practices are viewed as exclusively tailored for younger students, often leaving older students out of the equation. One such practice is the read-aloud session, traditionally associated with early childhood education. However, the benefits of read-alouds extend beyond elementary classrooms and can significantly impact the learning experience of preteens andContinue reading “Four Reasons Teens Need Read Alouds”
ELA: Teach It All Without Losing Your Mind
There are reading standards for literature, reading standards for informational texts, foundational skills standards, writing standards, language standards…and ELA teachers are to teach students the skills within all of these standards in a school year’s time. This can be a challenge for several reasons: These obstacles do not excuse educators from teaching it all, theContinue reading “ELA: Teach It All Without Losing Your Mind”
The Power of Listening: Using Read Alouds to Inform Instruction
Hear the Difference During the first days of school, you want to get to know your students and build relationships with them, but you also want to learn how they read. You need to listen to them read. This is a practice that is common in early grades, but often shied away from in middleContinue reading “The Power of Listening: Using Read Alouds to Inform Instruction”
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