Four Easy Teaching Strategies for Summarizing Skills
Summarizing is a life-long skill that greatly affects student learning. It is also a skill that students struggle with significantly. One of the worst consequences of a lack of summarizing skills is the ease with which students will mistakenly plagiarize. Early in my...
Teaching Summarizing Skills
Summarizing is a life-long skill that greatly affects student learning. It is also a skill that students struggle with significantly. One of the worst consequences of a lack of summarizing skill is the ease with which students will mistakenly plagiarize. Early in my...
Conference Table Style Flexible Grouping!
A Class Divided in Half One day, while coaching at a middle school in North Carolina, I entered a small classroom, found that the teachers had divided the class in half, and were doing alternative teaching. They had arranged the desks in a conference table style. The...
Non-Linguistic Vocab Interventions
Since RTI was originally created to help lower elementary school children with literacy issues, much of the existing material on RTI focuses on vocabulary or linguistic interventions. It is important to understand that these types of interventions can actually be used...