Sentences with phrase «elementary reading to kids»

I have volunteered at a local elementary reading to kids and helping with the summer program.

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I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

In our school district, the elementary schools administer tests to the kids in September as a way of assessing reading skills.

As in many American elementary schools, reading focused on teaching kids how to decode words (phonics, phonemic awareness, etc.), followed by plenty of exposure to texts targeted precisely at students» current reading levels, plus ample practice at the skills of «reading comprehension.»

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

Then someone told her about a program just getting under way that pairs dogs and reading - challenged elementary school children; the dogs act as nonjudgmental listeners to help kids get over their fear of reading out loud.

There are many factors to being a good teacher, focus, charisma, understanding kids, diligence, honesty (only missing days when it's unavoidable), intelligence, knowledge: Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests... Read More

In districts like Brownsville, a historically Black community in Brooklyn, there is not a single district elementary school that has educated more than 20 % of its kids to read at grade level.

As we continue to promote a climate that focuses on achievement for our kids and focuses on the objective of increasing graduation rates and improving math and reading skills in elementary school and looks at expanding vocational education and looks at ways we can promote Pre-K opportunities, I think we have a real opportunity for Indiana to be a national leader.

Great article that my principal had us ESL teachers just read - thank you for your no nonsense outspokenness, and no, Mr Shanahan, ESL will not pull during teacher direct instruction in the content areas until small groups break out - only 30 minutes then - but it's a packed schedule to do it - 8 groups a day 5 days a week to pull for listening / reading and speaking / writing per WIDA some of your comments appreciated much as a former elementary homeschooler and advocate of of ED Hirsch and his cultural literacy - which I've preached since I returned my kids to public schooling in middle school 17 years ago....

And why do kids who seem to read well in elementary school then struggle with grade - level text in middle and high school?

That organization is making the case that if we want to teach kids to understand what they read — and prepare them for high school, college, and life — we need to teach them history, science, and the arts beginning in the early elementary grades.

«They've still maintained the federal foot on the testing accelerator by requiring every kid to be tested every year in elementary and middle school in reading and math and by not allowing an opt - out provision.»

So the only way to truly improve reading comprehension is to systematically provide kids with knowledge, the opposite of what elementary schools have been doing.

With the majority of young readers taking advantage of the read - to - me option, the developers put more text on the same screen, giving the book that «big kid book» image; that will be incredibly important as elementary readers begin to make the transition to chapter books.

Kids with ADHD can struggle to read social cues, take turns, and play nicely with other kids their age, particularly in elementary school — and these early social challenges can have cumulative negative effects on self - esteem that reverberate through a child's lKids with ADHD can struggle to read social cues, take turns, and play nicely with other kids their age, particularly in elementary school — and these early social challenges can have cumulative negative effects on self - esteem that reverberate through a child's lkids their age, particularly in elementary school — and these early social challenges can have cumulative negative effects on self - esteem that reverberate through a child's life.