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Ad lit.org: Hooking Reluctant Ell Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this excerpt from her essay "Literacy Development for Latino Students," published in The Best for Our Children: Critical Perspectives on Literacy for Latino Students, Teacher's College Press, the author describes the reading program...
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Ad lit.org: Phonics Instruction for Middle and High School El Ls

For Teachers 9th - 10th
While it may seem the most expedient solution, it is not appropriate to put an older ELL student in a lower grade to receive the appropriate reading instruction. Age-appropriate activities integrated with academic content give older...
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Ad lit.org: Getting Ready for College: What Ell Students Need to Know

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For ELLs, the challenges of going to college and finding the right opportunities can be overwhelming, but ELL teachers can play an important role helping students apply to college and preparing for the application process as well. This...
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Ad lit.org: Pre Reading Activities for El Ls

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Pre-reading activities can engage student interest, activate prior knowledge, or pre-teach potentially difficult concepts and vocabulary. They also offer a great opportunity to introduce comprehension components such as cause and effect,...
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Ad lit.org: High Achieving Middle Schools for Latino Students in Poverty

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What are the characteristics of middle schools in which Latino students from low-income families make substantial achievement gains?
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Ad lit.org: Escritura Basada en Los Estandares Para Estudiantes Ell

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Escribir es comunicacion, creatividad y colaboracion. Escribir es un proceso social para los estudiantes ELL, igual que para cualquier otro escritor. Para los estudiantes que estan aprendiendo ingles lograr el equilibrio entre escribir...
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Ad lit.org: La Diferencia Entre El Ingles Social Y El Academico

For Teachers 9th - 10th
El ingles social es el idioma de la comunicacion cotidiana en forma oral y escrita. Este articulo tiene algunas ejemplos.
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Ad lit.org: Engaging Parents to Support Good School Attendance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Poor school attendance is a strong predictor of school dropout. Children can't learn if they aren't present in school, so attendance is a must. Parents are best positioned to ensure children attend school and to build the expectation...
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Ad lit.org: Parent Involvement Checklist

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Does your school do a good job of reaching out to parents? Use this checklist to evaluate and improve parent-school partnerships.
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Ad lit.org: October Is Learning Disabilities Month

For Teachers 9th - 10th
October was designated LD Month in 1985 through a proclamation by President Ronald Reagan. Each year the celebration is used to educate the public about learning disabilities.
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Ad lit.org: 5 Homework Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Many students with learning or reading disabilities find homework challenging. Here are five research-based strategies that teachers can use to help students.
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Ad lit.org: Hooking Struggling Readers: Using Books They Can and Want to Read

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One of the keys to helping struggling readers is to provide them with books that they can and want to read. Fiction for struggling readers must have realistic characters, readable and convincing text, and a sense of the readers'...
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Ad lit.org: Making Writing Instruction a Priority in Middle and High Schools

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Sometimes writing is seen as the flip side of reading, and it is assumed that students who are proficient readers will naturally be proficient writers. While reading and writing are complementary skills, students do not become skilled...
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Ad lit.org: Developing a Positive School Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What is meant by "school climate", and how can you assess the climate at your school? Read on for helpful definitions, assessment ideas, tools, and resources.
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Ad lit.org: Five Phases of Professional Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Too often, teachers say that the professional development they receive provides limited application to their everyday world of teaching and learning. Here The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory shares a five-phase framework...
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Ad lit.org: Making College and Career Readiness the Mission for High Schools

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To close the gap between what is expected of a high school graduate and what the world beyond high school demands, state leaders will need to develop coherent policies that equate earning a high school diploma with being prepared for the...
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Ad lit.org: Helping Equip Teachers to Answer Questions on College Knowledge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In a Stanford University study, a majority of high school students reported speaking with a teacher at least once about college admissions requirements, but teachers reported receiving very little information to answer their students'...
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Ad lit.org: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Vocabulary instruction is an important part of reading and language arts classes, as well as content-area classes such as science and social studies. By giving students explicit instruction in vocabulary, teachers help them learn the...
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Ad lit.org: Developing Academic Language: Got Words?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Concerns about how to build academic vocabulary and weave its instruction into curricula are common among classroom teachers. This article reviews the research and offers some practical suggestions for teachers.
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Ad lit.org: Giving Feedback on Student Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to conduct effective peer and teacher writing conferences to improve student writing.
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for a more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage, summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate...
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Ad lit.org: Content Area Literacy: Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Reading complex literary texts offers unique opportunities for students to wrestle with some of the core ethical dilemmas that we face as human beings. The growth of ethical reasoning is one of the most compelling reasons for schools to...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Seed Discussion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Seed Discussion is a two-part strategy used to teach students how to engage in discussions about assigned readings. In the first part, students read selected text and identify "seeds" or key concepts of a passage which may need...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Prediction Relay

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Prediction Relay is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Prediction Relay...