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Posts Tagged ‘teachers’

Celebrate Reading Success at Briarcliff Elementary, Cary NC

Its called Read-a-Book Get-a-Book! Learn more at www.BillFletcher.com

Effective Literacy Practices – Making It Easy to Learn

Teachers build on a child’s strengths to create situations where the child will experience success in early literacy learning.

Effective Literacy Practices – Learning About Phonology & Orthography

Teachers explore ways that children learn about relationships between letters of written language and sounds of spoken language.

Effective Literacy Practices – Assessing Through Close Observation

Teachers discover that close, systematic observation is a way to assess rapid changes in literacy learning of young children.

Effective Literacy Practices – Phrasing in Fluent Reading

Teachers explore aspects of fluent reading, including the importance of phrased reading for young literacy learners.

Addressing the Challenges of Informational Text Reading 2

Addressing the Challenges of Reading Informational Text” Explore some of the difficulties students may have with reading and understanding informational text as well as instructional strategies to support student success with informational text in the classroom and on the Ohio Achievement Test-Reading. Fostering Student Success on the OAT-Reading, Grades 57: Reading and Writing Informational Text webcast series provides classroom teachers, literacy and curriculum specialists, and other leaders in English language arts education with instructional strategies for supporting student success with informational texts in the classroom and on the Ohio Achievement Test-Reading. Go to the ORC site (ohiorc.org to watch webcasts that present 45-minute panel discussions exploring the teaching-learning implications sample OAT items, student responses, and ELA content standards suggest in relation to the reading and writing of informational text. Use the webcast viewing guides to initiate or continue professional dialogue and instructional planning on enhancing literacy in your school or district. In addition, take advantage of the webcasts’ mini-collections—small sets of ORC resources containing additional instructional examples, lesson ideas, and supplemental resource materials. Lastly, use the reference bibliographies provided for further information and reflection on effective teaching with informational texts.

Effective Literacy Practices – Teaching for Transfer – Strategic Activity

An exploration of strategic reading activities initiated by children and actions teachers can take to encourage those behaviors.

Addressing the Challenges of Informational Text Reading 1

Addressing the Challenges of Reading Informational Text” Explore some of the difficulties students may have with reading and understanding informational text as well as instructional strategies to support student success with informational text in the classroom and on the Ohio Achievement Test-Reading. Fostering Student Success on the OAT-Reading, Grades 57: Reading and Writing Informational Text webcast series provides classroom teachers, literacy and curriculum specialists, and other leaders in English language arts education with instructional strategies for supporting student success with informational texts in the classroom and on the Ohio Achievement Test-Reading. Go to the ORC site (ohiorc.org to watch webcasts that present 45-minute panel discussions exploring the teaching-learning implications sample OAT items, student responses, and ELA content standards suggest in relation to the reading and writing of informational text. Use the webcast viewing guides to initiate or continue professional dialogue and instructional planning on enhancing literacy in your school or district. In addition, take advantage of the webcasts’ mini-collections—small sets of ORC resources containing additional instructional examples, lesson ideas, and supplemental resource materials. Lastly, use the reference bibliographies provided for further information and reflection on effective teaching with informational texts.

Hamline School of Education STARS

Adult basic education teachers, staff, and administrators talk about how the STARS (student achievement in reading) program, through Hamline University, has helped them achieve reading success with their own students. Find out more here: www.hamline.edu … education reading “adult basic education” teachers hamline “student achievement”