Hello, my name is Ray and I am a student at Wayne State University. I was
wondering. Is there a way to prevent a student with an advanced reading
comprehension level from thinking he/she is better than students at a lesser
reading comprehension level?
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I guess I find myself a bit taken back by the idea that this would happen.
As a teacher and now as a coach, it simply has never been an issue. When
children are given equal access to text, which sometimes means read aloud
and sometimes means text differentiation, nearly all children are capable of
I agree with Lori, if kids are given equal access to text they tend to "step
up" if you will.
But to answer your question in another way...build a community of learners!!!
I cannot stress enough how important building community is to your kiddos.
They learn to respect each others' differenc
I am actually researching this idea of authentic differentiation for the gifted
student in the Reading Workshop. We are expected to differentiate for the GT
students in our classes. I think this can be done with both sides of the
balanced literacy equation. On one hand you could actually introd
I think that the previous posts are correct- if you don't make it an issue,
usually the kids don't either.
I talk extensively with my first graders about how some books are a good fit
for one person but not another. There is a good lesson using shoes in The Daily
Five book. The basic metaphor is
