August 23rd, 2010
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Category: Literacy Schools
P.E. = A
History = A
Performing art= A
Language arts/literacy= B
Math= B-
Science= C
Reading= A
And by the way I am will be in the 11th grade in september
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August 22nd, 2010
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Category: How to Read (BOOKS)
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Early reading and literacy have become the focus of policymakers, with a renewed emphasis on the early grades. In this essential new resource, authors and educational specialists provide a unique guide to today’s most important and most effective research-based reading programs. The book’s in-depth coverage analyzes and compares features, frameworks, tools, methods, outcomes, and reform components for 17 major reading programs:
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August 10th, 2010
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An effective resource for improving young students’ comprehension skills
With 100 high-interest reading activities, this book is designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple-choice selections, and thinking and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups extra practice, or as supplemental skill-building…
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July 30th, 2010
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Are your students engaged and motivated to read and write but hesitant during math instruction? Do you want your students to be as excited about math as they are about literacy? This unique resource explores how best practices for teaching reading and writing can help you become a better math teacher.
From Reading to Math: How Best Practices in Literacy Can Make You a Better Math Teacher, Grades K-5
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July 21st, 2010
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Category: Teaching Literacy
I am almost 72. I learned the difference between an Index and a Table of Contents before mid term(before Christmas holidays) in the 4th grade. I understand kids going in to high school have never been taught that.
I have been incorrected more than once by high school graduates for saying “have come.” I tell them 2 of the verbs in the English lanaguage where the present tense and the past participle are the same are come and run. I have heard two TV newspersons in the past few months say,”have came.”
It does seem like computer skills could wait for the…
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July 12th, 2010
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Category: How to Read (VIDEOS)
Literacy Centers for Primary Grades is a book written by Kelly Mikesell and Teill Dean. It contains 25 easy to use centers to promote reading, literacy and writing. For more information visit elementary-teacher-resources.com/primary_literacy_centers.html
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June 22nd, 2010
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Category: Classroom Literacy
When I say “centers,” I’m referring to activities/games. Centers are learning stations set up around the classroom.
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June 18th, 2010
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Teachers share advice on creating successful literacy classrooms for all students, including those who struggle
This much-needed resource is filled with lively and inspiring stories from teachers who overcame challenges with underperforming and struggling learners-many of them special needs students-to make significant breakthroughs in reading and writing instruction. The teachers reveal their trials, errors, and triumphs in how they discovered particular instructional strategies or incorporated modeling and motivational techniques that best addressed students’ learning needs and opened a path to success. Compelling and absorbing, the book includes unusual and often surprising…
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June 4th, 2010
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Grounded in research and practice, this resource shows elementary teachers how to use formative assessment to build students’ language and literacy skills across the curriculum.
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June 3rd, 2010
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Category: Literacy
I’m new to teaching grade 2. I want to create some centers for students to develop their phonics skills. I have a couple of students who are non-readers. What are some good ideas for activities at these centers to promote the development of literacy?
BTW they have LD and/or ADHD
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