Prewriting Strategies May Reduce Apprehension Towards Writing By: Kate Will, M.A. Posted on: April 26, 2022 Brainstorming, concept mapping, and freewriting can help students organize their thoughts and gain confidence as writers.
Learning English with your Children and Teens: Using a Chore Chart to Practice Overall Fluency By: Nicole DeSalle, M.F.A. Posted on: March 29, 2022 Planning out the week’s chores provides an excellent opportunity to practice English skills.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Practice Paraphrasing With a New Game By: Kate Will, M.A. 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.
Identifying Phonological Working Memory Struggles and Intervening With Instruction By: Nina A. Lorimor-Easley, M.S., M.Ed. Posted on: January 25, 2022 Proficiency with phonological working memory is a part of developing other literacy skills.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teen’s Home Learning: Combine Reading Aloud With Guided Play to Develop Listening Comprehension Skills By: Anna Gibbs, M.Ed. Posted on: December 14, 2021 Retelling a story with household items and conversation facilitates use of listening comprehension skills.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Making and Playing Games to Practice English By: Kate Will, M.A. Posted on: November 30, 2021 Games like our Word Match reinforce vocabulary instruction in a fun way.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Focus on Language Development During Shared Reading By: Nicole DeSalle, M.F.A.Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D. Posted on: October 26, 2021 Keep characteristics like rhyming and other language elements in mind when selecting and reading aloud a book together.
Incorporating Oral Language Learning Throughout the School Day By: Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D. Posted on: September 28, 2021 Take three basic steps to implicitly and explicitly teach language to help develop this foundational skill for young students.
Is It the Materials or the Instruction That Make For a Good Reading Program? By: Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D. Posted on: August 31, 2021 Read why teaching in an explicit, systematic way with differentiation is at the heart of the best performing reading programs.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Identification of Cause and Effect Relationships in Texts By: Anna Gibbs, M.Ed. Posted on: April 27, 2021 This video demonstration explains the importance of this comprehension skill and how to teach it.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Using Junk Mail to Practice English By: Nicole DeSalle, M.F.A. Posted on: March 30, 2021 Engage the family with activities that practice English vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and more.