Prewriting Strategies May Reduce Apprehension Towards Writing
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Posted on: April 26, 2022
Brainstorming, concept mapping, and freewriting can help students organize their thoughts and gain confidence as writers.
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Posted on: April 26, 2022
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Practice Paraphrasing With a New Game
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Posted on: February 22, 2022
English learners can have fun with their families and learn a communication strategy by making and playing a card game.
Paraphrase Game
Players describe nouns so that other players can guess them. This game provides practice using paraphrasing strategies, which are helpful when a speaker is struggling to use an unknown word.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Making and Playing Games to Practice English
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Posted on: November 30, 2021
Games like our Word Match reinforce vocabulary instruction in a fun way.
Suffix Dictionary
A graphic organizer to record the meaning of suffixes in words by writing down the word ending, whether the word is an adjective or a noun, and the meaning of the suffix.
Word Match Game
Players match nouns and adjectives to expand their vocabulary and practice other literacy skills including morpheme awareness, making connections to background knowledge, and social connections. Directions for how to play the game and templates to make your own cards are included.
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.