These two 8th graders left the mother speechless. After all, she knows her daughter better than anyone else in the world. She knows what her daughter can achieve, and what to... Read More 2023-01-12 Not the Largest Menorah At the annual Friendship Circle Brooklyn Chanuka party, the Menora...
When textbooks were still widely used, I checked out an Algebra textbook to each student on my roster — all ninth-graders except for one tenth-grade boy. I also assigned lockers and gave out combinations to their locks. The tenth-grader had been misassigned to my class and was quickly pr...
My first period came when I was twelve or thirteen. It happened on the week long camping trip...with all the seventh and eighth graders. The teachers liked us to do one service project during these trips, and the one they arranged was trail building. We drove up to the base of the ...
(1984). Second graders' strategic preferences while reading basal stories. Journalof Educational Research, 77(3), 184-189.Alvermann, D. (1984). Second graders' st rategic preferences while reading basal stories. journal of Educational .?2,.!3-~~earch~ 184-189...
I use Scribblar to conduct online lessons to students from 3rd graders to high school students, be it problem solving, SAT/SSAT preps or reading/writing group lessons. The site is very user-friendly so even the younger kids have no problems actively participating in the online live ...
These skill-based Secrets can be shared whenever and wherever they are needed throughout the instructional day. The more Secrets kids know, the more they can read and write independently, using the posters to recall the sound patterns for reading and the spelling patterns for writing. ...
s league. A Somali chef racing against time to prepare his camel-on-a-stick stand for the Minnesota State Fair. A Belizean bra fitter who finds community with the Orthodox Jews of Crown Heights. These are just a few of the true immigrant stories that make upLittle America's second ...
But where’s the instructional value in justlookingat words day in and day out, or even worse, in all of the time we spend memorizing words because kids don’t know how to read them? When you can’t read the words,lookingandmemorizingare the only options, especially for beginning grade...
“The challenge is how do we address the needs ofyouth on a pathway into the juvenile justice system to systematically change that pathway. One thing for sure – it’s going to take more than the Youth Center. It’s clear not one segment alone is enough to change the numbers. It’s ...
Public Schools stated what had become soberingly obvious based upon students’ December test results: “In order to work with all the third, fourth and fifth graders who need to get to grade level, we have to sacrifice our time with first and second graders. There’re just not enough of ...