eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2018

Have you ever wondered what goes into developing a culturally-inclusive curriculum? The audience that Reading Horizons serves is diverse, and our footprint has grown significantly in the last decade as K–3 teachers and students from all over the country use our product for emerging readers and remediation.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Wisconsin is creating a new literacy office and hiring reading coaches. Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. newsletters.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 18, 2015

Unfortunately, many teachers spend the first day of school reading their syllabus to their students and explaining all of the classroom norms and rules. Then they fold the index cards in half and write their names on the front so I can begin learning them. Socrative Pop Culture Space Race. Will they be challenged or not?

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2017

I tell that story, much to the delight of my fifth graders, to teach a way to approach plot in narrative writing. Storytelling, which can teach us about ourselves, about possibilities, and about culture, is such a powerful learning tool that it is even being used to teach robots. I cannot bring all of my students to the museums in D.C.,

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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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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

. & WEATHERFORD, TX – July, 2022 – MetaMetrics ® and Edsoma today announced a new partnership that will help children using Edsoma’s innovative reading app build their oral reading fluency skills. Edsoma’s scoring system is used to identify strengths and weaknesses in children’s reading. About Edsoma.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Two Teacher-Led Stations – One Differentiated, One Guided Reading and Discussion Reading Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 3.2 – Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2021

I write teacher guides and curriculum for graphic novels for publishers like Macmillan and Scholastic, and I have a book about teaching with comics coming out this summer. I was pursuing my master’s degree as a reading specialist and was the only male in the whole program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Given my own experience learning English, I found myself reminded of the many instances when educators and administrators misjudged my ability to read or speak English as incompetence. All assignments are scaffolded in groups while students translate questions and vocabulary into languages they can read and write.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2019

Biggest challenge: There were many gaps in foundational reading across classrooms before we piloted our new reading program. In Rockford, small-group instruction includes skill-based groups, guided reading, or literature circles. It didn’t seem that we had a common methodology to teach foundational literacy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading. Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

While novels are engrossing for some students, teachers who use a variety of texts and media sources engage more students and address a broader range of topics and reading standards. These connections make students more interested in the stories they read, enhancing their overall classroom engagement. The day went quickly.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading. Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During this month, we recognize the contributions, heritage, culture, and importance of Hispanic and Latinx Americans and how they have shaped our country’s character. An added bonus: All Mango Classroom courses include culture notes that teach appropriate cultural information. Read and write different types of literature.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading. Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Her diverse background in teaching writing, science and coding positioned her well to participate in the Project Topeka pilot, a multifaceted AI program that gave real-time feedback to students to support the development of argumentative writing skills. Through this writing process, they can have their own epiphanies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Peer editing here usually consists of working with partners, swapping writing assignments and making suggestions. One student, Colleen, became agitated each time I mentioned that we would be reading each other’s writing. While we all face stress on occasion, this is not how I wanted my students to feel about writing.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

This is a significant gap in AIs ability to support language learners and culturally diverse classrooms. Understanding context in texts and conversations AI can summarize a passage or analyze a text, but it often misses the deeper meaning, tone, and cultural nuance, especially in literature and history.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Environments aren’t just spaces that we exist in; they also encompass the culture in that space. For example, learners could have the option to write an essay or choose to present it orally. Students could decide whether they’d like to read that day’s material from the textbook, or view a video summarizing the content.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Building on the national movement for social justice, the Savvas CRL Initiative seeks to cultivate a more inclusive culture at Savvas that elevates different perspectives and increases diversity within its workforce, vendors, and editorial content. The board members include: Cati V. de los Ríos, Ph.D.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

How can we develop a better school culture and make education a positive experience for all of our students? Most days, students walk through our doors and read the texts we have selected, participate in the activities we have planned, and complete the projects we have thought up. But what if… What if they loved learning?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Simply take the text of an assignment and have an AI tool like ChatGPT adjust the reading level or the challenge level up or down to meet the needs of the classroom — or create leveled challenges that students can progress through as they gain mastery. Engineering requires students to optimize and challenges them to grow.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Understanding the linguistic and cultural profile of your students will enable you to select the most appropriate evidence-based strategies and customize them to meet individual needs. And conversely, if a student can’t read or understand the words “add” and “subtract,” they won’t do well on a math test. For example, the word “plot.”

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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

MAY 27, 2024

Key points: It’s critical for students to have access to reading opportunities 6 tips to help educators support young readers 3 keys to successful summer reading For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub When I was a kid, my dad never let me shop the Scholastic Book Fair.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2023

Featuring a dynamic and diverse group of educators, episodes offer age-appropriate content focusing on foundational reading, writing and literacy skills, with literacy coaches modeling best practices for using science of reading-based pedagogy.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Other observers read between the lines and discern another motivation. In Chinese culture, parents provide as best they can for their children,” says Nicolas Huang, co-founder of Lonely Reader, a digital platform that teaches liberal arts.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. As a first-year graduate student, I had read Susan Blums Ungrading and was immediately smitten. I aimed, therefore, to bring the writing process further into the classroom, including proposals, drafts, and revisions.

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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 13, 2019

So my first step toward empowering them to drive their learning was to include them in the process of figuring out how to rebuild the positive classroom culture we had lost. Throughout my explanations and arguments, I have learned how to make my writing more concise and how to organize my thoughts…My feedback from Ms.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

One of the persistent challenges in second language acquisition (SLA), especially within the communicative approach, is how to incorporate writing in a way that feels meaningful and beneficial to students. As a result, writing often takes a backseat, seen as an isolated, academic exercise rather than a communicative act.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2015

With a new video, standards-based exercises and an interactive creative challenge each week, the dynamic series provides a unique platform to teach core subjects through real-world news and promote the development of important skills like reading, writing and critical thinking. “We

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2024

Culturally responsive teaching is a crucial student-centered approach that is critical in today’s multicultural and diverse educational environment. These differences in learning are related to a student’s cultural background, family structure, social and economic status, communication and language, and social identity (Gay, 2002).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2024

One of my favorite parts of my job includes helping classroom teachers choose what their students might want to read next. Instead of finding one novel for a whole class to read, I’m often helping English teachers find engaging books for 26 different students–and that’s just one class.

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