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A summer reading program for students who read differently

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“Summer Reading Together” program aims to level the playing field for students. Research shows that summer reading helps reduce “summer slide” for all students, and experts indicate that reading at least 20 minutes a day outside of the school year ensures that students continue to grow and develop. to participate.

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17 Little-Known Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Using Google in the Classroom

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The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties.

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?An Augmented Reality Library Comes to Life for Aspiring Teachers at UT San Antonio

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Some of the augmented books in UTSA’s collection also have capabilities to be read aloud. Colemere says this could be useful for some students with learning disabilities. “It In addition to the sheer lack of options available, the books do not have reading levels and vary widely in terms of their usefulness.

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‘Precision Education’ Hopes to Apply Big Data to Lift Diverse Student Groups

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He’ll design short quizzes to test each concept, and make a menu of choices for students to turn to when the results show they need to learn more. Once he settles on the concepts he wants to cover, Salimi will look around for open education resources or multimedia from textbook publishers to explain each one. she asks. “We

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Forget Memorization: Here's Why Language Class Should Focus on Excitement Instead

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When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day.

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