Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Disability, Difference, and Diversity
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Use Wordle.net to Detect Overused Words!
Have your child paste their essay in www.Wordle.net. The overused words in the essay will be the largest in the Wordle design. Have your child use a thesaurus to find multi-syllabic words to replace...
Small Groups – Good for All Ages!
After a recent seminar on strategies for working with small groups, Jan Anderson of the Learning Disabilities Association of Wisconsin shared with me some of the techniques she was planning to...
Reduce Stress in the Homework Environment With These Easy Steps
Strategies for Setting Up a Positive Homework Environment Provide a comfortable place in which to work without distractions If possible, use full-spectrum lighting Calm the homework beast with music...
Dear Parents: At-Home Reading
This is a syndication of an article by Donalyn Miller, who gives us an example of her reasoning behind the importance of reading at home and why ultimately, all the reading logs in the world make no...
Visual Search Engines and Visual Learners
When I consider how often we have students search the web for information, I wonder how many times struggling readers look at a page of search results and feel like they are reading a foreign...
Capitalizing on Vocabulary
Communicating concepts in ways that all students in the classroom, with their various learning styles, can understand is a real challenge. Sometimes, as teachers, we find ourselves using vocabulary...
FREE Teacher (and Student) Websites!
Teachers and Students Connect Online An easy way for teachers, students, and parents to stay connected is through the teacher’s website. Teachers can post classroom information, homework...
What I’m Thankful For on this Thanksgiving Day
On this Thanksgiving Day, while the rest of the family is watching football (I’m not a football watcher) I thought it might be a good time to reflect on some of the things that I’m thankful for. I’m...
Music as a Behavior Management Strategy
I talk a lot about the value of music as a teaching strategy and, in most of my sessions, I discuss the effectiveness of music as a way to calm and focus students. A couple of teachers in my fall...
NCTE: High School Readers and Writers
I woke up early on a SATURDAY, so that I could listen to Jeff Wilhelm, author of You Gotta BE the Book and Reading Don't Fix No Chevys and Penny Kittle, author of Write Beside Them. Both Jeff and...
NCTE: Reading Identity
I saw a few reading rock stars this afternoon-- spending a delightful ninety minutes watching Franki Sibberson, Debbie Miller, Ann Marie Corgill, and Karen Szymusiak where they discussed methods for...