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Guide Students to Answers According to Question Type: The Question-Answer Relationship
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
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Teaching students to identify the type of question asked about a text using the Question-Answer Relationship strategy helps them formulate answers more easily.
Delivering the Message About Literacy Improvement Efforts: the PROPeL Initiative
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
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Positive, student-focused messaging about a literacy initiative delivered to potential audiences via various mediums can gain support for the initiative from important stakeholders.
Identifying and Avoiding False Information: A Matter of Comprehension in the Classroom
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
A lack of comprehension and media literacy skills can lead a student to mistakenly use false information found on the web at school. Learn more about the problem and counteracting it with instruction and modeling.
Marketing Literacy Improvement Efforts to Relevant Audiences: the PROPeL Initiative
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
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Marketing and communications plans allow school systems to gain support needed for a successful literacy initiative. We discuss identifying potential audiences for such efforts.
Parent-Child Conversation: More Than Just Idle Chatter
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
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When parents engage in meaningful oral conversations with children in the home, it can have a positive impact on their vocabulary skills and overall reading ability. Our tips can help foster more of these conversations.
A Chore No More: Make Summer Reading Enjoyable With Family-Oriented Approaches
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
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Make summer reading fun and fulfilling for the children in your family and help them maintain their reading skills with these seasonal approaches to reading.
What Makes a Literacy Practice Evidence-Based?
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
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With what level of confidence can you say a given literacy instructional practice may work to help students in your school or district learn to read? It all depends on the available research and evidence for that practice.
Goal Setting and Progress Monitoring to Address a Literacy Issue: The PROPeL Initiative
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Address a literacy challenge by setting a SMART goal, establishing benchmarks in the journey toward that goal, tracking the entire process using progress monitoring, and modifying instruction when progress monitoring suggests you should.
What Do Students "Lose" in the Summer?
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
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We examine the misunderstanding that over the summer, some students are losing months-worth of what they learned about reading during the school year.
Sentence Expanding: Helping Students Build Stronger Sentences
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
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Sentence expanding helps students write strong, clear, and detailed sentences. Teach students this writing technique through explicit instruction.
Ensuring Focus on the Right Issues to Improve Literacy: the PROPeL Initiative
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
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By conducting a root cause analysis, schools and districts can identify the fundamental reasons for a literacy challenge. Learn the three types of root causes and how to verify you have actually identified the root causes.
Developing Writers in the Classroom: Fluency With Writing Mechanics and an Engaged Community of Writers
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
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Teachers can help students become better writers by teaching and encouraging practice of the mechanics of writing, as well as establishing an environment that motivates them to write.
Developing Writers in the Classroom: Daily Writing Time and Multipurpose Writing
Monday, March 13, 2017
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To become better writers, students need dedicated time to practice writing and instruction on a variety of strategies for writing for multiple purposes and audiences.
Getting the Work Started: The PROPeL Initiative
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
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School districts involved in the Iowa Reading Research Center’s PROPeL initiative form their local teams and write literacy challenge statements using student literacy data.
The Journey Is the Treasure: Providing Just the Right Amount of Background Knowledge to Support Reading Comprehension
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
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Young readers can connect their background information to a new text for greater comprehension. Sample lesson plans show how to use this technique in the classroom.
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