Fiction vs Nonfiction Teaching Slides Teach your students the difference between fiction and nonfiction books with this age-appropriate teaching presentation for elementary school ELA lessons. Text Features for 2nd Grade Text Features for 3rd Grade Text Features for 4th Grade...
For more than 15 years, the What Kids Are Reading report has been a trusted resource for educators looking to inspire a love of reading. The 2025 edition reveals compelling research showing how just 15 minutes of daily reading significantly improves student outcomes across all grade levels. Discov...
For example, in the very first ERWC module that I wrote, I chose an essay by Jeremy Rifkin called “A Change of Heart About Animals” as the core text. In this essay, Rifkin summarizes a number of scientific studies about animal behavior, often giving us the names of the animals in the...
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Teachers of any grade or subject can play a role in developing students’ awareness of the text structures described above. The texts that are used in every classroom provide opportunities for teachers to point out examples of the structures found in the three types of writing, patterns of organ...
Furthermore, it is user friendly by having gradebook, calendar, e-text, and assignments with due dates all at first glance when they enter LaunchPad. A favorite assignment feature on LaunchPad is the LearningCurve. Macmillan describes LearningCurves as an adaptive quizzing and personalized ...
Not based on one test or one task, nor on a mark or grade. ( 8) evaluation; The systematic gathering of information for the purpose of making decisions (Weiss, 1972). ( 9) validity (有效正确) ; The extent to which inferences made from assessment results are appropriate, meaningful, and...
first grade CAI reading programs and any of four fourth grade CAI reading programs, or to control groups. At both grade levels and in both years of the evaluation, reading effect sizes were near zero. The overall effect size was +0.04 for first grade and +0.02 for fourth grade. The ...
Using case study methods, we examined how, when, and why this second-grade teacher engaged in adaptive teaching. An adaptation was defined as a deviation from the lesson plan associated with either the curriculum materials or the teacher's plan for instruction that demonstrated an application of ...
Small is good, small is all. It is a short but powerful missive that first came to bear for me working in a residential high school for nine years and that I return to often in my work. While we are often fed the narrative to “go big or go home”, the greatest lessons I learned...