Students in multimodal learning clubs use a variety of texts to learn important content.
Language Arts and Literacy
Teachers can employ a variety of classroom-tested strategies to teach reading to English language learners.
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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 toward the end of the year, serves as a foundation to demonstrate that our students “read and comprehend literature, including
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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 curriculum. One of us (Ginni), an associate professor who teaches content area literacy courses at a regional university, and the other (Jason), who teaches middle grades
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Carl Sagan once said, “We can do science, and with it we can improve our lives.” Yes, science is an action—something we can do—and it is apparent that we in education have forgotten that fact. As a result, our world ranking in science has reached an all-time low. Now with the recent push to improve
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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 with Voices Reading: Both How and Why, asserts that after students have mastered the how of
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