Sentences with phrase «classroom readings with»

Easier Youth Version — suitable for elementary school audiences, special education classes, classroom readings with young student actors, and those needing an abbreviated version

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I read it in Grade 10 English class, stole my copy from Mr. Hoff's classroom, and then wore it out with re-reading.

It was an RCC sanctioned book, complete with imprimatur, that had been placed in my classroom by the curriculum development experts in the diocese with the expectation that I would read it to the children.

I picture Christians around the country and around the world sitting in my classroom reading my lessons and setting out to share the truths about God's revealed Word with others.

Before Martin and Malcolm, black ministers and religious thinkers repeated the doctrines and mimicked the theologies they read and heard in white churches and seminaries, grateful to be allowed to worship God in an integrated sanctuary and to study theology with whites in a seminary classroom.

The Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education required its teachers to read a statement before any classroom discussion dealing with evolution urging the students «to exercise critical thinking and gather all information possible and closely examine each alternative toward forming an opinion» regarding «the origin of life and matter.»

Students wrote essays about their role models, who were invited to eat breakfast with the student essayists; one student from each classroom was invited to read their essay aloud.

Enjoy using it in the classroom or at home after reading the storybook with your children.

Early reading in schools is necessary so that the teacher can give children classroom assignments rather than working individually with each of them, but at home it doesn't matter.

Read Part 2 of our interview with Lori, where we discuss the new meal patterns, breakfast - in - the - classroom resources, and what's next for her BIC program.

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.

Additionally, in a blended program, our speech / language pathologists, reading specialists, occupational therapists, and other support staff work with children in the classroom who require supports.

«And when parents read books with their kids, two things happen: The kids see that what they're learning has interest and value beyond the classroom and kids and parents have shared material to talk about — what they each liked and disliked in the story, what they found boring or engaging, etc..

This can not be done in a classroom where twenty - five children congregate with one teacher... The learning disabled child should not have to share his teacher with more than six to eight other children, at least not during those portions of the day when the key subjects — reading and arithmetic — are being taught.»

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.

Here are seven questions to consider when evaluating your child's reading program (if you think that the reading curriculum in your child's classroom isn't up to par, schedule a conference with the teacher to talk about your concerns):

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 NUTs Breaking the Mould project, in which the National Union of Teachers has worked with a small group of primary schools to consider how «traditional» gender stereotypes could be challenged in the classroom through reading materials, is a really useful resource.

Commenting on the success of the initiative, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said, «Alom's book is a perfect tool for helping young people to think critically about the world around them, whether used in the classroom to stimulate discussion or simply read at home for pleasure, with the warmth and colour that only autobiography can provide.»

Others have reported that certain kinds of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.

From background reading for classroom activities and post-activity quizzes to finding a science project, learning about the scientific method, or researching careers, you can assign Science Buddies content with the click of a button!

«While we have been practicing de-stressing techniques in many classrooms for years, there have been some recent practices associated with mindfulness that are offensive to some,» she said in the note [scroll down to read the complete text].

Read educational articles, parenting articles, & more Children with attention deficit disorder and / or learning disabilities can be a challenge for any classroom teacher.

DUNKIRK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbbmCXrpYlg THE LITTLE HOURS A GHOST STORY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAT7QkcOSEY WAR FOR...... Read more «Every Movie Has a Lesson's Don Shanahan opens up July with nine new reviews and seven matching «Movie Classrooms»»

The five tips I've shared today are probably not new to you, but they are a way to help you stay on course with nurturing a love of reading in your classroom.

Celebrate the Chinese New Year in your classroom with this rich assortment of activities covering reading passage, fluency passage and chart, comprehension, vocabulary, writing, social studies (culture), and more.

When the day of our poetry reading came, we transformed our classroom to a café with tea, sandwiches without crust, and small cookies; we felt so sophisticated!

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

It has become a mantra in education that No Child Left Behind, with its pressure to raise test scores, has reduced classroom time devoted to the arts (and science, social studies, and everything else besides reading and math).

On classroom blogs, students put into conversation their reading of paintings and photography with songs, poems, books, and articles like this post comparing Sia's «Elastic Heart» and Picasso's Femme Aux Bras Croises.

«There are so many classrooms with nothing to read except textbooks,» Mayer said.

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 the book, Becoming One Community: Reading & Writing with English Language Learners, teachers Kathleen Fay and Suzanne Whaley describe ways classroom teachers can meet the needs of students learning English, and help them practice their skills in all subject areas.

«Print up your classroom rules for students to keep, and for them to take home with them for parents to read and maybe even to sign and bring back to you,» added Jessie Ballenger, assistant principal at Danbury (Connecticut) High School.

It can be used effectively with reading or math concepts and, because it is rhythmically based, the classroom teacher can guide the exercise with simple handclapping.

While the traditional classroom teacher is bound to confront students with reading difficulties, most teachers have not received much (or any) preparation for the specific teaching challenges these students present.

The classroom library manager can paste bookplate stickers in front of the books with a message like «Happy reading!

Research pays Many of the stories and case studies I'd read of technology in the classroom, particularly about tablet use, hadn't filled me with enthusiasm.

Steps To Literacy's NGSS collection offerings include classroom libraries organized by grade, topic, and reading level with bins and labels.

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

Some great options for classroom audiobook access can be found at Learning Ally, a nonprofit provider of human - read audiobooks; OverDrive Education, another provider of human - read audiobooks; and Bookshare, a provider of computerized audiobooks (free for students with an individualized education program).

Using telecommunication platforms like Skype or Google Hangouts so that parents can read to the class or help with pre-scheduled assignments without being physically present in the classroom

He said that reading the portfolios and working with new teachers not only gives him a good picture of the certification candidates but also helps him assess his own performance, even after 25 years in the classroom.

✔ ☛ Teacher script ✔ ☞ Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading ✔ ☛ Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development ✔ ☞ Great for bilingual classrooms ✔ ☛ Social studies focus for integrating with literacy ✔ ☞ Posters and picture sort for rural, suburban, and urban geography focus ✔ If you enjoy this resource, please review it!

But principal Michelle Tubbs, a veteran of the classroom who holds a doctorate in education technology, had conducted a pilot program with blended learning at an Alliance school in the city's Watts neighborhood, where the average freshman read and did math at the 4th - grade level.

Although this book is easy to read and I agree wholeheartedly with the message, I found it a bit light - on in terms of practical strategies to employ in the classroom.

Teachers who want to introduce metacognition in their classrooms might begin by reading our post Engaging Brains: How to Enhance Learning by Teaching Kids About Neuroplasticity, and also teach students about the anterior prefrontal cortex, the brain area that researchers have begun to link with metacognition.

Common Core Reading and Math Standards have both identified the need for this critical practice, and many teachers are struggling with implementing it in the classroom.

If I were to return to the classroom and revise this process, it would be interesting do away with the jobs and role sheets altogether and have the students «take full responsibility for capturing their during - reading responses using Post-its, text annotations, bookmarks, and journals» (Harvey & Daniels, 2015).