Reflecting on her reading practicum experience, Student Assistant Emily Crandall discusses how it prepared her for student teaching
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Teach students to use a word box to practice letter-sound correspondences or syllables for decoding words.
An overview of text structures, why they matter for students’ comprehension of informational text, and a deeper look at text structure mapping as an instructional tool.
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