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Ad lit.org: On Summer Loss
The Center for Summer Learning compiled this quick review of statistics on summer learning loss.
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Ad lit.org: Helping Students With Ld Pass High Stakes Tests
Students must pass a high stakes tests to graduate high school. These tests are a major barrier for students with learning disabilities who often do not test well. Accommodations can help. Learn how to help children with learning...
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Ad lit.org: Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: The Core of Improvement
Every content area, from chemistry to history, has unique literacy demands: texts, knowledge, skills. But how are these critical literacies learned, let alone taught?
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Ad lit.org: Do Learner Types Need in Style Instruction?
How does the mind work - and how does it learn? Teachers' instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such gut knowledge often serves us well,...
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Ad lit.org: Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers
This article presents a round-up of intervention initiatives aimed at struggling adolescent readers. It provides a snapshot of program characteristics and research findings for Reciprocal Teaching, Apprenticeship in Reading, Read 180,...
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Ad lit.org: Engaging Parents to Support Academic Attainment Over Time
Chances for success are improved when adults offer children, starting at a young age, positive expectations and aspirations about what they can do and achieve. Learn ways to help parents support students' long-term success in school,...
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Ad lit.org: Engaging Parents to Support Academic Achievement
Academic achievement is a strong predictor of high school graduation and is critical to long-term success in college, work, and life. A sixth grader who fails math or English, has unsatisfactory behavior, or poor attendance has a 75%...
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Ad lit.org: Parent Engagement in Transitions to Middle and High School
Using the 3A framework (Attendance, Achievement, and Attainment) for dropout prevention developed by the America's Promise Alliance and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this article highlights specific knowledge that parents need to...
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Ad lit.org: Hooking Reluctant Ell Readers
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...