Well done Marisa. Very relevant and highly useful.
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I’m interested in your thoughts about the proposed summer and winter school programs to “catch up” under-achieving students.
A few issues spring to mind . . .
Is placing a greater workload on under-achievers the solution?
How will these students cope without a full break? Won’t these same students be exhausted from back to back terms with shorter breaks?
Does this suggest that we cannot provide a rich, quality …
Comprehension is built around a foundation of prior knowledge and will therefore differ for individuals. It is possible and likely for students within a single cohort to have different understandings of elements within the same text.
Factors contributing to a strong foundation of prior knowledge:
rich language environments, i.e. those in which there is a high volume of general and focused talk around a variety of topics; …
How do we improve reading outcomes for students? What do highly proficient teachers of reading do? Here’s my Top Ten list . . .
Gather regular, ongoing records using both formal and informal measures on continuous text; analyse strategic behaviour on errors and self-corrections, make observations about elements of prosody and fluency and assess comprehension; determine skills and knowledge controlled and absent; identify patterns of behaviour
Analyse …
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