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Supporting delayed readers: Strategies for success

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Delayed readers are students whose reading development lags behind typical age or grade expectations. Individualizing student instruction: Effects on literacy and learning. Elementary School Journal, 118(4), 579599. Intensive interventions for students with reading disabilities: Meaningful impacts. Foorman, B.

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Pennsylvania School Reports Student Growth in Mathematics Despite National Trends

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PRWEB) — Sourcewell , a trusted advisor to education leaders, announces that North Star Central Elementary School in Boswell, Pennsylvania—home to more than 350 pre-K–4 students—is seeing significant growth in students’ math scores, despite national trends. “At PAUL, MINN.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. 11 Research evidence lacking: Despite OG/MSL’s popularity and backing, research evidence of its efficacy for students with dyslexia beyond 3 rd grade is lacking, despite almost a century of application. 20k+ per year).

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HEARBUILDER Online Foundational Literacy Program Builds Basic Skills in Young Students

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With the onset of the COVID virus, millions of PreK to Grade 5 students across the U.S. may have fallen critically behind in the basic skills they need to become good readers and be successful in school. Now more than ever, parents, educators and specialists are focused on helping their young students make up for lost learning time.

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The Gates Foundation Is Awarding Millions to Solve America’s Algebra Problem. Will It Add Up?

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Studies in districts like Los Angeles Unified have found that students who passed Algebra I by 9th grade are twice as likely to graduate as those who did not. Their Latino peers comprised 25 percent of students in schools that offered Algebra I in eighth grade, but just 18 percent of the students enrolled. Source: U.S.

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Yes, Audiobooks Are Real Reading. Here Are the Best Ones for Kids.

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As a preschool and elementary school librarian, I’ll tell you that there’s nothing more foundational for literacy than time spent snuggled up with a trusted adult, soaking in a story, sharing the words, laughing (or crying) and learning to love the way the words unfold in a well-told tale.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? She offers a few lessons on positive online communication, which can be modified for different grade levels. The Power of Words (grade 3).

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