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Disciplinary Literacy
In normal reading development- or in standardized dimension of education- K-2 is the learning to read or the basic literacy stage of reading development. Beginning of the third grade year, students...
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There are different literacy connections within specific content areas that are different from the reading instruction a student may receive in an English or English Language Arts classroom. In content...
View ArticleAddressing Rigor in our Schools
A Good thing: There seems to be a wide spread concern about rigor in our schools, but addressing the change that is needed is challenging. This is especially true in those schools that the learning...
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Spanky and the Gang Revisited
Today I was looking for a blog post I wrote on November 22, 2009. Several things resonate with me as I read. First, the idea of using primary source documents, the student conversations, students...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Pulse?
Today Kay Connors @kconners09 has given permission for me to repost this blog post from her blog at Dimensional Learning. The other day I was learning from Kay in a chat at #edchat on Twitter. The...
View ArticleRamblings about Literacy and Blogging
I can only write about blogging from my point of view and what I have learned about the bloggers that I follow in my Google Reader and blog post that are recommended through my Twitter feed. In some...
View ArticleWho will teach kids to climb
Here I shared some notes from watching this video with David Coleman talking about the shifts in literacy with the full implementation of Common Core Standards. Hearing David in this video allowed...
View ArticleUsing Historical Fiction Picture Books Part One
In the Article “Comprehension Strategies for Reading Historical Fiction Picturebooks” by Suzette Youngs and Frank Serafini in The Reading Teacher, October 2011 along with other important notes struck a...
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In the Article “Comprehension Strategies for Reading Historical Fiction Picturebooks” by Suzette Youngs and Frank Serafini in The Reading Teacher, October 2011 the authors offer suggestions for moving...
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What REALLY MATTERS? We need to be more compelling!
We (educators) have made lots of progress in education over the last few years, but know one really knows about the work we have done. Yes, much of it has been blood, sweat, and tears. We have many...
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