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...
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. Journal of Educational Research, 77(3), 184-189.Alvermann, D. (1984). Second graders' strategic preferences while reading basal stories. Journal of Educational Research, 77, 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. ...
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...
My second and third graders hit the 100th day of school mark today, and my kindergartner and preschoolers will hit it next week. It’s weird to think we are over halfway done with the school year already. The second grade celebrated by inviting kids to dress up as 100 year olds and ...
“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 ...
how it bled and bled and seemed to stand for more than just my clumsiness. The freckle on my thumb that’s only recently appeared — proof of sun and age. The writer’s bump I got in second grade writing an essay on keeping chickens (in cursive). The way the veins in my left wris...
As some of you know, I embarked on my “70 for 70” activities on the ramp-up to my 70th birthday on June 13, so this is my tenth (FINAL) Weekly Report on those activities. Please read the previous posts for details on each week’s activities. ...