Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Most of my students immigrated to the United States within the last year, and all of them were English learners, thus making it difficult for them to complete the activity. Unfortunately, the sentiment within my supervisor’s response is not unique to the curricula design for English learners.

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English Culture Language Languages 191

Catlin Tucker

JULY 25, 2016

English teachers frequently ask me which technology tools I use to design my online learning stations. Below are my 5 favorite technology tools and online resources for designing the online learning stations in my English classroom. #1 The texts are paired with Think Questions and writing prompts that I can use or adapt.

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Online Learning Technology Blended Learning English 420

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

. – June 23, 2022 – Students in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) who participated in online tutoring sessions with FEV Tutor , the most comprehensive virtual tutoring solution in K-12, demonstrated accelerated rates of growth relative to national norms in both math and reading on the NWEA MAP Growth Assessments. About FEV Tutor.

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Math Reading English Social Studies 246

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

New supplemental reading program for Grades 3–5 engages students with grade-level content using culturally relevant texts. To help students build confidence while mastering critical reading skills, Curriculum Associates has launched the supplemental Magnetic Reading program for Grades 3–5.

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Reading Curriculum Skills Culture 208

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

purpose, application, launch) in both English and Spanish. As teachers read the descriptions of each routine provided on the Project Zero website , it is clear that these routines would work well to engage students in dynamic face-to-face activities and discussions. Thinking Routine #2–Claim, Evidence, Question.

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Online Learning Learning Blended Learning English 546

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. English Language arts teachers might want to create 5 ins and outs for reading, writing, language, and soft skills/study skills.

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English Coaching Language Languages 420

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther considered the question, sitting in a small room with Ms. Odette guided Esther as she wrote her answers in English. “I She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. A system in which many of their teachers, myself included, speak only English.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

There are a variety of reading and math apps and websites that cater to gamification, and even provide the opportunity for differentiation. Let’s start off with reading apps and websites. The gamification aspect comes in when students receive stars for reading the book, listening to the book, and taking the quiz.

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Gamification Student Engagement Students Reading 356

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

STEM can help with English language development by allowing students to engage with language in a variety of ways. Native English speakers can struggle, too. Be sure to explicitly teach words that have multiple meanings in English, e.g., base , bond , code , engineer , mass , model , range , volume , and odd and even.

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STEM English Language Languages 334

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Every English teacher has experienced the frustration of introducing a writing skill, like how to write a thesis statement, over and over again without it “sticking.” That said, I can only read so many essays in a year. I vary my questions between informative and argumentative topics. Just in time for summer reading!

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Essay Writing English Languages 420

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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Reading Assignments English Math 327

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This summer I read Starr Stackstein’s book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School. Their first task was to read through and rewrite the standards in a way that made sense to them. We shared this “Ongoing Assessment” document with each student via Google Classroom.

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Grades Feedback English Evaluation 420

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2020

If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

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Distance Learning Learning Coaching Language 363

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I’ve experienced the phenomenon of reading a text, but when I get to the end of a page or the bottom of the article, I have no idea what the text was about. I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. They result from a lack of focus on and engagement with the text I am reading.

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Activities Reading Learning Discussions 195

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

“I believe I deserve a B in English because I 1) _, 2. _, and 3.” My counter argument usually sounds like this: “I have a grade of a C for you in English because of …” If I counter, then the student gets a rebuttal. ” It’s a fair question. They begin with a claim.

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Grades Essay Exams English 419

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, an argumentative writing standard for English Language Arts reads, “Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.” What questions or wonderings do you have about this topic? Where are the gaps?

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Learning Knowledge Writing Discussions 543

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Learning a second language is a challenge, whether it be English, Russian, or any of the hundreds of world languages we find across the globe. The question becomes: How to make that happen? You’ve come to the right place if you want to improve your English language skills. Do you immerse yourself? Use an app?

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English Language Languages Feedback 145

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

” This is a critical question that teachers should ask themselves as they design the parts of their lesson. Simply type the question and options you want to appear on the Mentimeter slide and project it. English teachers can ask students to share an image of an annotated poem.

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Coaching Learning Students Knowledge 419

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

You may need to ask yourself some additional questions: . This year presented an even more complicated set of circumstances as most of us sailed the uncharted waters of using new technology tools and experimenting with new technology-enhanced instructional strategies. Which of them didn’t work for you? Why didn’t they work?

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Art Online Learning Languages Language 545

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This article is part of the guide, What Does Reading Well Looks Like? “I In SSR, the question, “What would a good adult reader do?” EdSurge: What is Sustained Silent Reading, and how is it different from regular silent reading? More about Sustained Silent Reading. The Read-Aloud Handbook. is helpful. “I

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Reading English Students Languages 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2020

If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

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Online Learning Learning Coaching Language 310

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Seventeen years into her career, she’s devised decidedly innovative answers to that question, and many of them involve technology. We sat down with Felix to learn exactly how Immersive Reader helps her students and why it’s led them to demand more reading and writing time. They want to know you can read their writing.

Writing 194

Writing Reading Feedback Skills 194

Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

After students have completed moving through the station rotation, I post these self-reflection questions for students to think about and discuss with a partner: On a scale of 1-5 (five being the highest), how well do you think the class did when moving from station to station? You will see improvement between each practice round.

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Coaching Blended Learning Assignments Middle School 339

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

English teachers using StudySync have a wealth of online resources they can use to keep students learning remotely. Teachers using StudySync can use the Access Prior Knowledge Activities in the First Read Lessons to engage students in asynchronous online discussions using Google Classroom or a learning management system, like Schoology.

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Collaborative Research Students Knowledge Assignments 370

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Partnership offers automated assessment of students’ oral reading fluency — for testing at school or at home . AMI) , an educational technology company, to provide a fully automated assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to measure K-5 students’ reading abilities. (AMI)

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Reading Intelligence Testing Distance Learning 172

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This week I was invited to join an ongoing conversation with a small group of English teachers using Voxer. Connect lab groups outside of the classroom, so they can discuss the results of labs/experiments, ask questions and get support. Gather reading samples from students to evaluate their reading level and share with parents.

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Exams Feedback Assignments English 325

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This includes teaching test-taking strategies including: Active Reading: When I was a classroom teacher, I collaborated with the English department to teach students to become active readers, which makes it easier for them to pick out the information they really need from AP test passages and questions alike.

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Exams Essay Testing History 319

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our main program is HMH Into Reading for younger students and HMH Into Literature for the older students. Two years ago, our district started using Lexia English for our English Language Learners (ELLs), also with its Core5 and PowerUp programs. We’ll ask them questions like: What are your goals? What did you learn?

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Students English Languages Language 304

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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Secondary Education Grades Art Language 258

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As the back-to-school season unfolded in New York, the city’s teachers set up their classrooms how they usually do: by putting up posters, reading through curriculums, sharpening pencils, and, for roughly a decade , charging Chromebooks. In these preteen years, I never understood why my parents questioned how much time I spent on my phone.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

The question asked was: “Why does Anne hide Peter’s shoes?” That was the joking term that my fellow English teachers and I came up with to describe what we were seeing. Technically, the student is correct–Anne hides Peter’s shoes because she is bored and tired of being cooped up in the small apartment she is forced to hide in.

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Writing Students Communication Critical Thinking 281

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2018

They also delivered a stock of solar-powered reading lights designed and built by Schechter’s sixth graders. For example, as students began designing solar-powered lights for students in South Africa, they realized that they could not provide even the simplest of assembly instructions in English to a largely non-English-speaking student body.

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Technology English Students Language 270

eSchool News

MAY 4, 2023

Whether presenting a project, raising a hand to answer a question, or reading a passage out loud in front of others, students are often hesitant to put themselves out there. Audio clarity particularly impacts the ability of non-native English speakers to follow discussions.

English 289

English Participation Discussions Reading 289

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, teacher accounts were abuzz with reading lists and calls to adopt culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogies. All too often, the books on these reading centered traumatizing and marginalizing protagonists.

English 201

English Culture Syllabus Writing 201

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This is completed by working through objectives that, in education, are various courses: algebra, history, English, etc. One of the best examples is the Reading Counts system. Students read books, pass quizzes, and get a certain number of points attributed to their profile.

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Gamification Achievement Quizzes Reading 338

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

The company has launched Gale In Context: Literature, a new resource for literature instruction and learning that helps high schoolers engage and thrive in English language arts (ELA). Read our blog about why English teachers will love Gale In Context: Literature.

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Critical Thinking Learning Outcomes High School High School 246

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

FCPS teacher specialists on a break from MBE training in April 2019 (Credit: Margaret Lee) We framed our work around four questions, through the lens of research: What should we keep doing? This question is anchored in a quote from Dr. Maya Angelou: “Do the best you can until you know better. What should we retire?

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