eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Many students are still reading below the level appropriate for their grade– roughly one-third of fourth graders in the United States read at or below what’s considered the basic level. And unfortunately, even before the pandemic, reading achievement has been low over the past several decades.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

As students rotate to this station, they receive focused attention and resources that address their unique learning challenges or advanced needs, ensuring that each student is supported where they are in their learning journey. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2024

Creative writing techniques can make essays more engaging and original while maintaining the required objective structure. This approach not only captured students’ attention but structured arguments more clearly. However, it’s possible to use creative writing ideas to help you come up with a unique essay.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. Students benefit from the freedom to read at their own pace, ensuring they fully comprehend the material before moving on.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

.” When students are at the learning station with me, they have my undivided attention. My students were reading Of Mice and Men and attempting to complete an explicit/implicit chart. Group 2 worked collaboratively to create a timeline of John Steinbeck’s life and discussed which events impacted his writing of the novel.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Teachers who have traditionally planned a whole group lesson that moves the class, as a unit, through a series of learning activities find it nearly impossible to hold their students’ attention in the concurrent classroom. Note : I’ve grappled with whether or not to write about the concurrent classroom.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sometimes this is the result of students who are distracted or not paying attention. Writing or typing detailed directions is time-consuming. Even really young students in kindergarten and first grade who may not be able to read, can press play on a video and watch the teacher explain how to complete a task.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2020

While most of my students choose to come to our school because we focus on math, science, and STEM—the subjects they enjoy—I am tasked with helping them develop their reading and writing skills. Here are five ways you can use technology to capture and hold the attention of language arts students.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The class may include students with a hearing impairment, auditory processing disorder, or attention deficit disorder. Then students can decide whether they would enjoy listening, reading, or watching information on this topic. They can find a podcast (e.g., Listenwise), an online article, or a video on biodiversity.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

My own children are already playing soccer, practicing the piano, attempting to balance their activities with the daily homework and reading requirements for school. Yet, those slow mornings feel far away as I write this. I am writing this blog because the lack of balance in my own life has left me feeling exhausted.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

Teachers can pop in and out of breakout rooms while students discuss academic topics and collaborate around shared tasks, but it isn’t the same as walking around a classroom with watchful eyes and attentive ears. These reflections can take the form of a quick write, exit ticket, or video reflection.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For example, providing concept maps or graphic organizers, engaging learners in discussion (synchronous or asynchronous), or encouraging a reflective practice via a writing prompt. For example, some students may want to write while others will prefer to record a video. Consuming new information (e.g.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 29, 2015

The flipped classroom model is a blended learning strategy I use to present my vocabulary , writing, and grammar instruction online. It is also a good incentive to keep students attentive as they watch. Just in time for summer reading! This is a quick way to assess students as they watch the video.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2024

Research shows that we process information presented in visual form more quickly than that presented in writing. to guide the audience’s attention and convey information efficiently. Larger elements draw more attention, so prioritize the important content by making it the largest element in the design. Keep it simple.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI can help students write stronger essays, solve tricky math problems, and even manage their stress levels, all while giving TAs more time to focus on what matters most–building meaningful connections with students. Diffit provides leveled resources as well. Nearly all generative AI tools offer a summary function. MagicSchool.ai

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2017

As part of our initial orientation, we read an article titled “ Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time ” written by Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy. As I read through the article, I was struck by the difference between managing time–a finite resource–and managing one’s energy.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. There is a notable drop off in the reading and conversations.In

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2023

Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. The IB sets criteria and guidelines for the write-up. Many students dread IB essays. Hence, you need all the help you can get.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

Practicing reading and getting comfortable with language helps you become a better writer, helps you become a better critical thinker, and allows you to express yourself better when you’re speaking,” he explained. Digital devices inhibit the development of deep reading skills. Phalen is a firm believer in the power of literacy.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! How do you decide whether to keep reading a book or to stop reading it? Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. What about 3 hours?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

In the same way, teachers should dedicate the same time and attention to feedback as they do to instruction. We can spend all day telling students how to do something, like write a thesis statement, solve a type of problem, or analyze a primary source. The power of feedback. 77, 81–112. doi: 10.3102/003465430298487. Valiandes, S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2015

Like myself, other students with learning difficulties—from dysgraphia (a difficulty with writing, mainly in spelling) and attention disorders like ADD and ADHD—respond well to visual or tactile learning and activities that allow physical participation, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

This frees up teachers to plan better lessons and spend quality time with students who need one-on-one attention. Teachers read facial expressions, sense classroom mood shifts, and build the trust that makes learning possible. This combination of technology and personal attention helps students stay engaged with their learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2015

STEM education, while always a national focus, is receiving more attention in recent days, as surveys and legislation reveal awareness of its importance to the nation’s success. ” Eighty-six percent of those surveyed said they believe knowing how to use a computer is equally important as knowing how to read and write. .”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They write, “When a person has experiences that are joyful, meaningful, actively engaging, iterative, and socially interactive–in other words, playful–areas of the brain are activated, and chemicals are released, that are related to focused attention, memory, and movement from effortful to automatic learning.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2018

When teaching the 21st-century skill of communication, many schools focus on reading and writing, but spoken communication is just as important to students’ success in school and in life. Students use these microphones during morning meetings, when reading out loud, and when doing mini-presentations.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

Seeing their growth and knowing what is coming may keep your child’s attention and enthusiasm high. Adding some coloring or sketching to a writing project is a great way to engage an artistic kid. At the start of homework time, review the plan with your child and cross off items as they are finished.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

This article on the science of reading originally appeared on Purdue University’s site and is reposted here with permission. awarded to Purdue in August as part of Lilly Endowment’s Advancing the Science of Reading in Indiana initiative, which launched in 2022. The work is funded in part by a $1.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. You may have seen Lang’s writings about teaching before. EdSurge: In researching this book, you write that you spent two years looking at distraction in classrooms.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

The course, titled “The Reading Experiment: The Power of the Book,” takes place every other Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Students put away their technology and read for four hours. It’s a rediscovery of uninterrupted reading,” Peña-Guzman said last Friday while pulling up slides about the assigned readings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Not being able to read has a profound effect on our self-esteem, social-emotional skills and imagination.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In the new year, when we receive our mid-year i-Ready results, I want to celebrate our students’ growth, paying particular attention to those who were below grade level on their fall assessment and have worked hard to make meaningful progress since then.”. Provide authentic reading experiences for my students. Teach STEAM skills.

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Teach Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When it comes to fostering a love for reading in students, there’s a powerful tool that goes underappreciated: the read-aloud. Read-alouds have the power to transform how students perceive books and reading. Benefits of Read-Alouds Read-alouds offer many benefits. Here are a few.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2019

I’ve read dozens and dozens of books filled with characters I can relate to: white, middle class females. I’ve also read many novels that have stretched my mind, opened my heart and shown me what it’s like to live in someone else’s world. But when a gay man writes a story, it’s a story from the point of view of a gay man.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

ELs need ample opportunities to practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing in English. Additionally, providing reading materials at different levels and genres with resources like Newsela and CommonLit , and assigning writing tasks that focus on language development, can strengthen their reading and writing skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 7th most-read story focuses on the myriad ways technology is changing literacy instruction. Digital devices inhibit the development of deep reading skills. Dr. Wolf explained that thirty years ago, 60 percent of children read weekly. They directed it.

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