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Supporting delayed readers: Strategies for success

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Individualizing student instruction: Effects on literacy and learning. Elementary School Journal, 118(4), 579599. Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade (IES Practice Guide). Intensive interventions for students with reading disabilities: Meaningful impacts.

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HEARBUILDER Online Foundational Literacy Program Builds Basic Skills in Young Students

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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. Helps students increase their basic skills as shown in research studies. “We

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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

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills. schools collectively spend over $120 billion a year on special education. 15 The largest category is learning disabilities, mainly dyslexia. 16 Reading difficulties also occur across other disabilities such as autism and ADHD. 20k+ per year). link] Fuchs, D.,

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

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Without access or success, their advancement to higher-order math and other skills, like abstract and critical thinking or data analysis, is obstructed.” Research suggests that taking algebra courses in high school is one of several important indicators for students’ college readiness and success.

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How a Focus on Independent Learning Transformed My Most At-Risk Students

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As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. I spent the first four years of my career building the activities and classroom management skills I would need to pull it off. To start, I set up five centers: lab, science skills, reading, technology and a makerspace.

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