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01/12/2023

💌We all want to belong.
Join the Elementary or Secondary 3-part series to explore creating (or improving) classroom and school communities where ALL students belong w/ Beth Gurney, Ph.D.! 👇Register👇
🥰Elementary: http://bit.ly/3CCsVUa
😍Secondary: http://bit.ly/3IDVeFn

03/29/2022

Chaired by Dr. Sharon Vaughn and just released!
A new Practice Guide on Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9
4 recommendations:
(1) multisyllabic word reading
(2) fluency building
(3) comp-building practices &
(4) stretch text.
Access here:

WWC | Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9 The following research staff contributed to the guide: Madhavi Jayanthi, Russell Gersten, Joseph Dimino, Mary Jo Taylor, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar, Sarah Krowka, Kelly Haymond, Samantha Wavell, Julia Lyskawa, Seth Morgan, Betsy Keating, and Armando Yañez.

02/04/2022

Paraprofessionals in inclusive classrooms are in a unique position to facilitate peer relationships. Dr. Yun-Ching Chung describes paraprofessional facilitation strategies that find the balance between increasing students' with significant cognitive disabilities engagement with peers and reducing their reliance on adults: https://publications.ici.umn.edu/ties/peer-engagement/practice-guides/paraprofessional-facilitation

What Wordle Reminds Us About Effective Phonics and Spelling Instruction - ASCD

01/29/2022

https://www.ascd.org/blogs/what-wordle-reminds-us-about-effective-phonics-and-spelling-instruction?fbclid=IwAR29naFKTSfQSz--1o8XinYZfi94VYi3MMduHAh4HZ1amq80k1LWxYN0LLA

What Wordle Reminds Us About Effective Phonics and Spelling Instruction - ASCD It’s hard to miss the meteoric rise of the Wordle craze. This game is not only a gift for lexophiles but also for educators. It reminds us that effective phonics and spelling instruction requires carefully designed, explicit teaching combined with volume reading, vocabulary building, and high leve...