Creating Lifelong Learners
If you think about your educational experience growing up, it may have looked something like this. The teacher asked the questions, students gave the responses, and the answer was either right or wrong. A correct answer was rewarded with “good job” and a smile. An incorrect answer was met with a shake of the head …
Pair Sharing: A Best Practice Pair Sharing is generally acknowledged as a best practice in education. In classrooms I visit, however, I rarely see it used, let alone integrated into lessons as a regular practice. Reducing the amount of teacher talk and getting students to talk to each other is one of the cheapest and …
Here are two must-see items for teachers before going in to your next staff meeting. The first is an article from researcher, Will Thalheimer, that suggests that the pyramid that claims we remember 90% of what we teach others and only 10% of what we read is fabricated. Yes, we are more likely to remember …
I’m halfway through my second year of providing intervention services on a pullout basis to struggling readers. I thought I would share the materials I’m using with my students to increase comprehension in the hopes that this might help someone else and that you might have additional resources you might recommend. About My Intervention As …
In order to further fine-tune students’ reading comprehension, it may be helpful to do an error analysis…looking at where students are making errors and the nature of those errors. Error analysis can be done by analyzing student test answers on standardized tests (boring—but sometimes necessary) or through listening to student conversations in literature circles. In …
Using literature circles is another way to increase student comprehension. Even teachers of prescribed reading series should incorporate additional authentic literature in their teaching. This literature may be related to curricular units and must be high interest and at an appropriate reading level of students. I adapted my reading comprehension posters into Literature Circle Table Tents …
Thanks to web site visitors, Luz Arriaga and Dora Antillon, my Reading Comprehension Posters and Bookmarks arenow also available in Spanish. Reading Comprehension Posters (English) Reading Comprehension Poster (Spanish) Reading Comprehension Bookmark (English) Reading Comprehension Bookmark (Spanish) Larger versions of the Reading Comprehension Bookmarks (not yet translated) are also available here.
Our district requires us to administer comprehension assessments at six weeks intervals to all grades K-5. Here are my ideas on what to do to improve students’ performance on these assessments. Students will need both Test Taking Strategies as well as Real World Comprehension Skills. Test Taking Strategies Review the assessment. This need not be …
Thank you to those of you who attended my workshop, “RTI: A Complete Apple Workflow” at the CUE conference this weekend. I spoke about using Apple Software to address your Response to Intervention program. This post contains the links, resources, and ideas that I shared. Rather than simply posting the keynote file (which is …
Green is good. Red is bad. Here’s what they taught me in “coaching college” about how to read data. Reading vertically indicates the teacher’s problem. Reading horizontally indicates a student’s problem. So, Harpo needs some additional help in all language arts areas. However, in the vocabulary category, it appears that the teacher needs to examine …