Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Using Junk Mail to Practice English
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Posted on: March 30, 2021
Engage the family with activities that practice English vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and more.
Language: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Posted on: March 30, 2021
Implementing a Shared Reading Intervention for Kindergarten Students During Remote Learning
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Posted on: December 8, 2020
Hear from the interventionalist from an IRRC evaluation project on her experiences with virtual vocabulary instruction.
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: Engaging Preschool and Kindergarten-Aged children in Literacy-Focused Guided Play
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Posted on: May 19, 2020
Caregivers can implement three key elements to help grow literacy and pre-literacy skills.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: A Guide for Families
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Posted on: April 14, 2020
The IRRC’s Supporting Your Children's and Teen's Home Learning Guide provides web resources by subject area and for assistive technology use, as well as tips for a successful home learning approach.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Understanding Compound Words Through Their Two Word Parts
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Posted on: October 22, 2019
Teach students to read and understand a compound word by identifying the two words that make it.
Compound Word Meaning
With this graphic organizer, children can identify and define the two words that were combined to make a compound word and use that information to define the compound word. This can help develop morphological knowledge, or the ability to identify and manipulate the smallest units of meaning within a word.
Research Brief: Discussing a Vocabulary Graphic Organizer with an Online Partner May Help Students Learn Science Content
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Posted on: September 10, 2019
Students using the electronic organizer with online discussion showed a stronger path to increased science learning.
Caregiver Involvement When Reading Books to Children
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Posted on: April 23, 2019
Children’s literacy development benefits when they discuss four key elements of stories read by their caregivers.