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Successful Strategies for Teaching Reading to Middle Grades English Language Learners
Teachers can employ a variety of classroom-tested strategies to teach reading to English language learners.
Carlos (a pseudonym) moved from Guatemala to the United States when he was in sixth grade. When Carlos started school, his teachers expected him to speak only in English and practice English in his...
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Nicole Bolos
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Deeper Learning Through Book Clubs
At Park Ridge High School one of the texts in our eighth grade language arts curriculum that fulfills a Common Core State Standard is Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper. This novel, which students read...
Author:
Patricia J. McClair
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Literacy as the Link: Common Core Standards and Content Area Teaching
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) literacy standards for content area teachers provide incentive for teachers to focus on instructional techniques to meet students’ rigorous literacy needs across the...
Author:
Ginni C. Fair, Jason Fair
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Getting to the Why: Motivating Students to Read
Why do we have to read this? Does that lament sound familiar? It's a common question and one that teachers should be able to answer if they want students to be motivated to read. Catherine Snow, in Learning to Read...
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Deborah K. Arrowsmith
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Virtual Learning Environments for Advanced Readers
Why doesn't Kyle participate? Has Heather spoken a word in class this week? I know this is easy for Jake, but does he have to be the class clown all the time? These were questions I asked myself early in the school...
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Laura Corwon
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Speaking a Common Language Across the Curriculum
State standardized test scores at Cedarbrook Middle School in the Cheltenham (Pennsylvania) School District had been stagnant for several years and the achievement gap within our school dismayed and disheartened all...
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Sarah M. Stout, Peggy Cooper, Heather Blumberg, Linda Roeder, Jamie Osea, and Kevin Burke
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Losing the Fear of Sharing Control: Starting a Reading Workshop
We stood in the empty classroom. Lisa looked up at me. "I couldn't understand what I read last night," she said. I looked at her, speechless. The class was reading a novel, and I wondered why Lisa had been failing...
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Lesley Roessing
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