Not exact matches
Cholesterol, fat, sugar, salt and high - calorie foods have a stigma attached to them that did n`t
exist when
reading, writing and «rithmetic were the basic school
curriculum.
Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of
reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students
reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based
curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an
existing discussion - based
curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).
Evidence from State Content Standards Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, September 2009 This analysis found considerable variability among states» content standards, but that a small core
curriculum exists across states in the content areas of English language arts and
reading, science, and mathematics.
Teachers can also create
reading passages from
existing curriculum materials or online sources
Using an
existing set of video cases from the Center for the Study of
Reading's video series, «Teaching
Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms,» we developed
Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE), a hypermedia learning environment designed to help novices understand that there are many successful tools and approaches available to engage students from diverse cultural, linguistic, and intellectual backgrounds in challenging literacy
curricula.
One of the best ways to discover at what level that alignment
exists is through CEC's
Curriculum, Instruction and...
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Keys to Literacy is a professional development program designed to train teachers to provide content literacy instruction embedded in classroom instruction using
existing reading and
curriculum materials.