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Aug 6, 2024
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Orthographic Mapping: Practical Classroom Applications | Webinar Recording
This webinar introduces the process of orthographic mapping and presents practical strategies for implementing it within the classroom.
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Jul 30, 2024
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A Morphophonemic Approach to Decoding and Vocabulary | Webinar Recording
This webinar discusses the reasons behind the complexities of the English language and provides approaches to help your students develop word analysis skills.
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Jul 29, 2024
Use Multisensory Approaches
Consider these suggestions for implementing multisensory instruction: 1. Get students moving When asking students to brainstorm information, instead of handing students a blank sheet of paper, try a Round-Robin Brainstorm. Post large pieces of paper with different topic ideas on the classroom walls. Place students in small groups to generate knowledge and questions on each
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Jun 27, 2024
Teaching the Elaborated Paragraph
The Topic An elaborated paragraph begins with a topic sentence that needs the support of clear, logical ideas. Teachers can cue students for the topic sentences with a question. For example: Question: Is recycling beneficial to the environment? Topic Sentence: Recycling is beneficial to the environment. The Body The body of an elaborated paragraph supports
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Jun 10, 2024
Why DEIB Matters to Landmark Outreach
Unfortunately, students from marginalized social groups are often misidentified in consideration for special education services. Studies primarily indicate an overrepresentation of students of color, raising questions about bias. When Black students qualify for special education services, “there is evidence that they are more likely to be identified as intellectually disabled or behaviorally disordered rather than
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Jun 5, 2024
Include Students in the Learning Process
Educational research has contributed to the efficacy of including students in the learning process. Stephanie L. Haft, Chelsea A. Myers, and Fumiko Hoeft (2016) in their paper titled “Socio-emotional and Cognitive Resilience in Children with Reading Disabilities” assert that when students with learning challenges have the following as a part of their academic experience, outcomes
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May 16, 2024
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Reading Guidebook
Download our newest resource, The Reading Guidebook, and learn what the science tells us about reading instruction and why it matters. Today in the United States, an elementary school student would have better odds of surviving the Titanic than becoming a competent reader. Even before the prolonged school closures introduced by COVID, most American students
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Apr 26, 2024
How Can Educators Use AI in the Classroom?
In fact, AI has been lingering in our periphery since 1997 when Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster who had been victorious over both humans and computers throughout his career, was beaten by an IBM supercomputer with the whole world watching. People demonstrated the same polarized reactions to his loss that have emerged during the
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Apr 2, 2024
Developing Confident, Capable Writers: Process Writing Strategies
There are plenty of articles about all of the reasons why writing can be so difficult for students with LBLD, from basic transcription skills to idea generation to proofreading to the numerous executive function demands underlying the entire writing process. Even just reading and understanding the prompt is a skill that can require direct instruction
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