Jennifer, I have a couple of quick questions...
Is the student ELL? If so, what level? Maybe the questions are out of her
English Language Development "zone". If worded differently, she may be able
to answer them?
Also, what reading level is she?
Maybe she doesn't know how to put her thoughts i
Kristin, it makes perfect sense to me. I had the same experience my 1st
year as a literacy coach. My principal was not on board with any of
this "fluff" A 3rd grade teacher approached me and told me that
something I said in one of our study groups made him realize that he
didn't know how to teac
It isn't that the feds NEED programs and other methods of teaching
reading to be testing quantitatively. It is that they WANT them to be.
When the National Reading Panel met, they started out by systematically
throwing out all research that didn't meet their overall,
already-established pho
Elisa and others,
I've been following this conversation with much interest (as I'm sure many
are!) and I think I've already piped in with this, but I need to bring it up
again (it's possible I never did in the first place, I'm almost 6 months
pregnant and I left my brain at about 8 weeks!). La
Amy,
Thanks for the research link suggestions. I will look them up.
I think the big difference is whether the developers of Direct Instruction
programs, who also produced their own research saying their programs work, made
profits from their programs based on their research results and marketin
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QAR would be awesome!! Phyllis Hostmeyer has a great website for QAR and
many other comprehension strategies. Her website is www.PhylsQuil.com
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I am just finishing up the second of two courses in my doctorate on
"disciplined inquiry&
I am just finishing up the second of two courses in my doctorate on
"disciplined inquiry". One of the things I have learned is how to evaluate
research
articles. I thank you, Amy, for posting the research links...and I look
forward to reading through your links when I get a few minutes. I
