Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Writing an Objective Summary
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Posted on: April 7, 2020
Teach and practice this high-leverage skill at home with the help of our resource.
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Posted on: April 7, 2020
Writing an Objective Summary
With this resource that includes a graphic organizer, children follow a step-by-step set of instructions that leads them to write an objective summary of a text. The summary does not include any opinions or judgments.
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Selecting Texts for Standards-Aligned Practice
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Posted on: March 24, 2020
Three areas to consider when picking a text and a listing of websites with free texts to read.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Daily Book Study for Teens
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Posted on: March 20, 2020
Read a young adult novel with us and complete daily assignments to continue learning from home!
Effective Literacy Lesson: Constructing an Argumentative Claim
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Posted on: October 8, 2019
Students learn to write a debatable, focused, and clear claim with this instructional approach.
Argumentative Claim Checklist
Students can use the three-part checklist to ensure that their argumentative claim is a strong foundation for the rest of their argumentative essay.
Making and Evaluating Predictions
This graphic organizer helps students write down evidence they find in a text, make a prediction based on that evidence, write down any new evidence they find, and evaluate the prediction they made. Making predictions is a way for students to better comprehend a given text.
Research Brief: Meta-Analysis Shows Non-Repetitive Reading Fluency Interventions as Options for Teachers
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Posted on: August 27, 2019
Summarizing findings from a meta-analysis looking at effects and components of non-repetitive reading approaches.
Filling the Gaps: Text Sets Build Background Knowledge and Improve Comprehension of Informational Texts
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Posted on: May 7, 2019
Consider the objective of the unit and what students already know, and then begin building a diverse set of texts for students to read.
Developing and Synchronizing the Various Aspects of the Individualized Education Program
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Posted on: March 26, 2019
Setting a goal, monitoring progress and deciding on specially designed instruction through an IEP can help students with reading disabilities achieve success.