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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Semantic Feature Analysis
The Semantic Feature Analysis strategy engages students in reading assignments by asking them to relate selected vocabulary to key features of the text. This technique uses a matrix to help students discover how one set of things is...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Structured Notetaking
Structured Notetaking is a strategy that helps students become more effective note takers. Using graphic organizers specific to a particular text, structured notes assist students in understanding the content of their reading.
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Word Hunts
Word Hunts are used to enhance students' vocabulary growth. Teachers ask students to look for words and patterns in reading materials based upon selected features. Word Hunts focus on the structure and meaning of words by turning...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question the Author (Qt A)
Question the Author (QtA) is a comprehension strategy that requires students to pose queries while reading the text in order to challenge their understanding and solidify their knowledge (Beck et al., 1997).
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question Answer Relationship (Qar)
Question-Answer relationship (QAR) is a strategy to be used after students have read. QAR teaches students how to decipher what types of questions they are being asked and where to find the answers to them. Four types of questions are...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Raft Writing
RAFT is a writing strategy that helps students understand their role as a writer, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic they'll be writing about. By using this strategy, teachers encourage students...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Prediction Relay
Prediction Relay is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Prediction Relay...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Reading Guides
Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help...
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Ad lit.org: Getting Ready for College: What Ell Students Need to Know
For ELLs, the challenges of going to college and finding the right opportunities can be overwhelming, but ELL teachers can play an important role helping students apply to college and preparing for the application process as well. This...
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Ad lit.org: Pre Reading Activities for El Ls
Pre-reading activities can engage student interest, activate prior knowledge, or pre-teach potentially difficult concepts and vocabulary. They also offer a great opportunity to introduce comprehension components such as cause and effect,...
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Ad lit.org: High Achieving Middle Schools for Latino Students in Poverty
What are the characteristics of middle schools in which Latino students from low-income families make substantial achievement gains?
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Ad lit.org: La Diferencia Entre El Ingles Social Y El Academico
El ingles social es el idioma de la comunicacion cotidiana en forma oral y escrita. Este articulo tiene algunas ejemplos.
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Ad lit.org: Create Reading Accountability
Engaged, accountable reading requires students to interpret, and respond, often creatively. This article suggests several personalized ways to hold students accountable for their reading.
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Ad lit.org: Integrating Student Progress Monitoring (Spm) Into Your Classroom
Is your school planning to implement student progress monitoring (SPM)? Are you thinking of using it in your classroom? If so, consider a number of factors to make SPM an integral part of classroom activities, rather than a series of...
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Ad lit.org: Demography as Destiny: How America Can Build a Better Future
Barely 50% of minority students graduate from high school on time. If this trend continues and the minority student populations increase as projected, the economic strength of the U.S. will be undermined. But if 78% of all student...
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Ad lit.org: Having Your Child Tested for Learning Disabilities Outside of School
Children who struggle with reading often need extra help. This help usually comes from the school, but some parents choose to look outside the school for professionals who can assess, diagnose, tutor, or provide other education services....
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Ad lit.org: How Parents Can Be Advocates for Their Children
Parents are often the best educational advocates for their children, especially children with a learning disability. The Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities (CCLD) has developed the following tips to help parents champion...
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Ad lit.org: On Summer Loss
The Center for Summer Learning compiled this quick review of statistics on summer learning loss.
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Ad lit.org: Helping Students With Ld Pass High Stakes Tests
Students must pass a high stakes tests to graduate high school. These tests are a major barrier for students with learning disabilities who often do not test well. Accommodations can help. Learn how to help children with learning...
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Ad lit.org: Do Learner Types Need in Style Instruction?
How does the mind work - and how does it learn? Teachers' instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such gut knowledge often serves us well,...
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Ad lit.org: Engaging Parents to Support Academic Attainment Over Time
Chances for success are improved when adults offer children, starting at a young age, positive expectations and aspirations about what they can do and achieve. Learn ways to help parents support students' long-term success in school,...
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Ad lit.org: Engaging Parents to Support Academic Achievement
Academic achievement is a strong predictor of high school graduation and is critical to long-term success in college, work, and life. A sixth grader who fails math or English, has unsatisfactory behavior, or poor attendance has a 75%...
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Ad lit.org: Parent Engagement in Transitions to Middle and High School
Using the 3A framework (Attendance, Achievement, and Attainment) for dropout prevention developed by the America's Promise Alliance and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this article highlights specific knowledge that parents need to...
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Ad lit.org: Escritura Basada en Los Estandares Para Estudiantes Ell
Escribir es comunicacion, creatividad y colaboracion. Escribir es un proceso social para los estudiantes ELL, igual que para cualquier otro escritor. Para los estudiantes que estan aprendiendo ingles lograr el equilibrio entre escribir...