Angela Ehmer will deliver 'Practical Strategies for Teaching Comprehension' to Teachers' Aides on 22 March 2023
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 …
