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Purposeful Playwriting: Teaching Literacy Skills Through Playwriting
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Students can learn literacy skills and write about issues they are passionate about through this unique genre of writing.
Prewriting Strategies May Reduce Apprehension Towards Writing
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Brainstorming, concept mapping, and freewriting can help students organize their thoughts and gain confidence as writers.
Learning English with your Children and Teens: Using a Chore Chart to Practice Overall Fluency
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Planning out the week’s chores provides an excellent opportunity to practice English skills.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Practice Paraphrasing With a New Game
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
English learners can have fun with their families and learn a communication strategy by making and playing a card game.
Identifying Phonological Working Memory Struggles and Intervening With Instruction
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Proficiency with phonological working memory is a part of developing other literacy skills.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teen’s Home Learning: Combine Reading Aloud With Guided Play to Develop Listening Comprehension Skills
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Retelling a story with household items and conversation facilitates use of listening comprehension skills.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Making and Playing Games to Practice English
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Games like our Word Match reinforce vocabulary instruction in a fun way.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Focus on Language Development During Shared Reading
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Keep characteristics like rhyming and other language elements in mind when selecting and reading aloud a book together.
Incorporating Oral Language Learning Throughout the School Day
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Take three basic steps to implicitly and explicitly teach language to help develop this foundational skill for young students.
Is It the Materials or the Instruction That Make For a Good Reading Program?
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Read why teaching in an explicit, systematic way with differentiation is at the heart of the best performing reading programs.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Identification of Cause and Effect Relationships in Texts
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
This video demonstration explains the importance of this comprehension skill and how to teach it.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Using Junk Mail to Practice English
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Engage the family with activities that practice English vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and more.