Sentences with phrase «as classroom reading»

Do you use Readers Theater as a classroom reading activity?

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From the classroom reading of My Princess Boy, a book meant to normalize «gender expansive» behavior, to the adoption of a «gender inclusion» policy, parents and administrators at Nova were told that the Edwardses» demands had to be met as quickly as possible.

I read about a professor who gave his class an exercise in which he wanted them to prove that there was no such thing as an invisible leprechaun (or some such) in the classroom.

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

Such universities set for themselves a rich goal: to educate the whole person, to develop students inside as well as outside the classroom, to enlarge the mind and the heart... Continue Reading»

As I entered the classroom Tuesday, they were reading Sylvia's Spinach before tasting Spinach Lasagna, enjoying the Spinach Brownies they had made themselves, and going out to check on their newly planted spinach seeds in the school garden.

Comic books, now generally known as graphic novels, have increasingly been finding their way into classrooms and school libraries as teachers search for tools to not only help their students learn how to read, but to tap into the vivid imagination that is the hallmark of childhood and turn their students onto a lifelong love of reading.

During my tenure, I worked as a Early Intervention Program teacher, a Curriculum Support teacher, a Special Instructional Assistance teacher, a Reading Recovery teacher, and a Kindergarten through Fifth grade classroom teacher.

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

As with the previous posts in this series, I'll briefly discuss what is done in the Montessori classroom before touching on some ways parents can support children in their reading preparation at home.

Please read this letter from the Vermont Secretary of Education stating that meals served in the classroom count as instructional time.

But as a practicing pediatrician and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at George Washington University, Beard said that what children eat in a cafeteria «may be as important a determinant as the reading, writing and arithmetic they get in the classroom.»

As an added bonus, we make weekly trips to the local library to have fun with reading, teach them to make their own choices so that they don't ever get bored, and so they can discover the fun in learning outside the classroom.»

Teachers use read - alouds as well as poems, songs, and rhymes to teach topics across all subjects, and classrooms are filled with signs and labeled objects which help kids make connections between objects and words, and words and letters.

The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

The researchers then examined whether playing the more difficult games improved performance on additional measures of working memory as well as enhanced other skills, including math, reading, writing and following instructions in a classroom.

As we are taught in the YTTC classroom, «Sawa adhayae» meaning self lessons or self practice, we should keep practicing asanas, reading articles and books for improving our knowledge in the same.

Some school leaders and classroom teachers may not believe in the value of independent, for - pleasure reading, or that kids can read for as long as they truly can.

Read more about how schools and districts can move beyond these «pockets of excellence» to create a broad - based approach — and how to support teachers as they expand their classroom practices, as well as their confidence and capacities.

After reading this book, there are easily a handful of changes that I would make to my assessing and grading procedures if I were to return to the classroom as a teacher.

As the children read aloud «Treat others the way you want to be treated,» Nancy asks, «Do you think that's happening in our classroom?»

As we all know, independent reading at home has a huge impact on students» success in the classroom.

I personally didn't have you as a teacher nor am still in school but from reading this article I would like to think I would have greatly benefited from the blended classroom approach and resources like this.

Use them as an independent / group classroom activity, during your guided reading sessions or as part of your English display boards.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

In a kindergarten classroom recently, most of the ESOL students were actively engaged while we were reading the story aloud as a whole group.

If you have only one device in your classroom, use an ebook as a read - aloud.

We installed flexible and / or collaborative classroom furniture (e.g. node chairs, U-shaped reading tables) that allows for individual, partner, and small - group work as well as whole - group collaboration.

Studies have shown that schools offering intense physical activity programs have seen positive effects on academic performance such as improvements in math, reading, and classroom behavior — even when the added time takes away from academic instruction time.

In the two schools that had reopened, the Ed School students provided administrative and academic support in a number of areas, including in - classroom support through reading groups, one - on - one tutoring, and substitute teaching; organization and distribution of school uniforms; help to renew the libraries; and organization of after school electives such as Latin dancing, basketball tournaments, soccer games, and chess clubs.

Children will delight in the way the author highlights the ridiculousness of the adults in Nanny Piggins» world, while classroom teachers can read each chapter as a standalone story within a lesson, or the book as an ongoing whole over the course of days or weeks.

«I've been looking for the last year or two at how that translates into a technology classroom, and a lot of people see technology as the downfall of reading and writing.

As more and more teachers are building choice reading time into their daily classroom schedules, making a variety of books available to a diverse group of students can be challenging.

The goal of a literacy - rich classroom is expose students to as many different types of books as possible in order for them to continue to grow in their love of reading or to find an entry point for reading.

She maintains that literature can serve as a mirror to those whose lives are reflected in texts that are read in the classroom.

To write about your class; * Six full colour animated power point shows with attached authentic French speaking sound files, listening, speaking, reading and writing activities as well as music for songs, raps and interactive programmed classroom games for every learning objective: * A set of six screen by screen guidance lesson plans, with a plain speak vocabulary for all the language in the unit, grammar notes and answers for ppshow and workbook activities.

This initiative might focus its energies initially on three to five long - term projects in areas such as developing reading improvement programs or helping at - risk children make successful transitions from early - childhood programs into regular classrooms.

The simplest way to introduce comics to the classroom is to use a long form graphic novel as class reading material.

Beginning next week, students in Dade County, Fla., public schools will start «logging on» microcomputers to solve geometry problems or to work on reading skills as part of a pilot program designed to acquaint students with computer technology and to supplement classroom instruction.

We've used this tool in the classroom as a fluency - building device, having students read the same passage multiple times, increasing their speed when they feel comfortable.

For her reasoning, Pinkerton points to experts in the field, such as Dick Allington (Schools That Work), who calls for 500 different books in every classroom library and Jim Trelease (The Read Aloud Handbook) who reminds us all that, «The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it: and the more you like it, the more you do.&raRead Aloud Handbook) who reminds us all that, «The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it: and the more you like it, the more you do.&raread, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it: and the more you like it, the more you do.»

Although practice tests and classroom drills have raised the pass rate for the reading section of the TAAS in high schools, few students are able to use those same skills to complete actual reading assignments outside of class, to make meaning of literature, or to connect reading assignments to other parts of the course such as discussion and writing.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

Too many children are being identified as learning disabled and placed in special - education classrooms simply because they have trouble reading, according to a recent report from the International Reading Assocreading, according to a recent report from the International Reading AssocReading Association.

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«Not only does the Extreme Read expose a math teacher, for example, to a young adult novel he or she would not typically have used in the classroom, but it allows students to see teachers and adults other than their language arts teacher as readers,» she added.

Dreeben and Barr describe as «technological» the ways in which teachers form groups and then instruct them; not technological in the sense of using computers or electronic media but in the sense of applying craft knowledge in the pursuit of an occupational end, in this case, the goal of organizing a classroom full of first graders so that they can be taught how to read.