A differentiated, small-group, word study program provides students with the foundation for establishing important reading skills. Every group of students receives quality instruction matched to their reading stage, and instruction can be paced to accommodate the needs of beginning and struggling readers. Assessment is ongoing, and directly linked to instruction, so you can track students’… Read More Word Workers In The Reading Classroom: Word Study That Supports Differentiated Literacy Instruction
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Check out the UPS of Problem Solving
“Don’t take the problem solving out of problem solving” (p. 34). Rather, teach through problem solving, and teach students to solve problems with effective processes and strategies. Find tasks that encourage students to practice a particular problem solving strategy. As students’ grapple with the math, and discuss their ideas about their solutions, they develop skills… Read More Check out the UPS of Problem Solving
Learning is Essential: Resources for Providing Students Access to Quality Math Instruction
In an effort to assist teachers as they design lessons that are targeted to the Virginia standards and engage students in meaningful learning activities, the Virginia Department of Education’s math department has recommended some resources to be used in the implementation of high quality math instruction. Research The most important requirement of student achievement… Read More Learning is Essential: Resources for Providing Students Access to Quality Math Instruction
Read Aloud, Think Aloud and Write Aloud to Build Confident and Independent Writers
To make writing instruction meaningful, students need explicit instruction that presents them with writing models and teaches them skills within a community of writers. By using an “ I do , We do , You do ” approach, shift responsibility to students and help them develop the skills and confidence to write for real purposes…. Read More Read Aloud, Think Aloud and Write Aloud to Build Confident and Independent Writers
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Thoughts: Using Visual Imagery that Improves Working Memory
“Unless new information makes meaningful connections, it remains in working memory for about 20 seconds and is then discarded (Watson & Gable, 2011).” Because visual imagery can improve memory, it can help students make those connections. Visual images can help students make sense of math problems, remember fictional text, and comprehend a reading passage. Research… Read More A Picture is Worth a Thousand Thoughts: Using Visual Imagery that Improves Working Memory
Using Math Performance Taks To Inform Instruction
By presenting students with open performance tasks, and then examining their work by listening and observing, the teacher makes assessment part of daily instruction. Rather than being a task done quietly, alone at a desk, performance tasks allow students to learn math content by using math process tools Research Children need to experience mathematics as… Read More Using Math Performance Taks To Inform Instruction
Hands On Numberlines that Develop “In the Head” Number Sense
Developing number sense, by moving students from basic counting to place value and operations, develops gradually through exploration with numbers as well as models that represent those numbers in a concrete way. Manipulatives and representations of number lines can assist students as they develop the ability to picture them abstractly in their heads. Research… Read More Hands On Numberlines that Develop “In the Head” Number Sense
