article thumbnail

The Simple View of Reading: What You Need to Know

Waterford

Developed by Hollis Scarborough in 2001, it extends the Simple View by identifying subskills in both language comprehension and word recognition. Put together this foldable book Opposites (Spanish: Opuestos ) with your class to teach early elementary students print awareness skills. Scarborough’s Reading Rope.

article thumbnail

Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Is elementary school too early—or too late? This conclusion was reinforced by Feutz (2001). But when does that happen?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Who Does School Reform Serve?

Edsurge

Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education. Why can't good teaching, good books, all these things be okay for Black and brown students, regardless of who else attends the school?”

article thumbnail

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Culturally responsive teaching encompasses little steps like adding diverse books in your classroom library , as well as larger ones like adjusting your curriculum to include voices from marginalized communities. 15 Children’s Books about Diversity to Promote a Multicultural Classroom. What is Culturally Responsive Teaching?

Strategy 200
article thumbnail

How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

1] Specific causes vary from family to family, but they often have to do with limited resources and opportunities when there’s not as much free time or money to provide students with books or educational activities. 6] You could, for example, give low-income students a few books to take home.

How To 294
article thumbnail

PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

But the decline in book reading might not be the main culprit in our national comprehension problem. These same young teens were also less likely to say they talked about books or went to the library. We know that reading motivation causes kids to pick up books and read more. Positive attitudes about reading fell too.

Survey 141
article thumbnail

Conflict Resolution Techniques You Can Use in Your Classroom

Waterford

5] Children may also benefit from coming up with other ways for characters to handle situations in the books. A Conflict Resolution Protocol for Elementary Classrooms.” March 2001. Group activities like role playing help children understand differing perspectives, while also being fun for the class. Teaching Commons at York.

Classroom 246