Learning English with your Children and Teens: Using a Chore Chart to Practice Overall Fluency
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Posted on: March 29, 2022
Planning out the week’s chores provides an excellent opportunity to practice English skills.
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Posted on: March 29, 2022
Chore Chart
Use this chore chart template to fill out a weekly list of chores to be done, indicating which family member will do each chore and what day they will complete each chore. Discuss with the family as you go to practice English skills.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Focus on Language Development During Shared Reading
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Posted on: October 26, 2021
Keep characteristics like rhyming and other language elements in mind when selecting and reading aloud a book together.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Identification of Cause and Effect Relationships in Texts
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Posted on: April 27, 2021
This video demonstration explains the importance of this comprehension skill and how to teach it.
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
Students can be taught to use this graphic organizer to identify and record events that occur in a text (effect) and the reason why that event occurred (cause).
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Dyslexia and Writing: How Can Caregivers Help?
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Posted on: November 3, 2020
Help overcome the writing frustrations of children with dyslexia by using a handful of approaches and incorporating assistive technology.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Using Context Clues to Understand New Words
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Posted on: October 20, 2020
Learn three types of context clues for understanding vocabulary in a text and download a graphic organizer for children and teens to use when reading.
Context Clue Graphic Organizer
Students can identify and keep track of context clues using this graphic organizer by writing down the unfamiliar word, the type of context clue, and the word meaning. Context clues help readers determine the meaning of new words.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Paired Oral Reading
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Posted on: July 7, 2020
Children can work on reading fluency and comprehension while reading along with a caregiver.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Using a K-W-L Chart to Activate Background Knowledge
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Posted on: May 12, 2020
Use this approach to build knowledge about a topic while reading a book at home.