Sentences with phrase «in reading and language arts»

J.E. Moss Elementary School decreased the learning gap by 23 percent for its limited English proficiency students in reading and language arts after two years of SEL implementation.

Assist teachers in promoting student learning and achievement in reading and language arts, social studies, and remedial classes

The Think Tank committee serves as a consulting / advisory body to the Connecticut Association for Reading Research and the Connecticut Reading Association on issues that impact on curriculum and instruction, and assessments in reading and language arts in the state of Connecticut.

Through CARR, our graduate students in reading and language arts have received scholarships and research awards.

The coach's role is now to support teachers and generally help advance their teaching skills in reading and language arts.

I am also active in the Connecticut Literacy Think Tank, a consortium of professional educators who are either directly or indirectly involved in reading and language arts from the State of Connecticut, i.e., Central Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, Western Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, St. Joseph's College, University of Hartford, University of Bridgeport, University of Connecticut, and the State Department of Education / Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction.

My appointment to the State of Connecticut Task Force for helping struggling readers in Connecticut grades four to nine is beneficial to our department particularly in informing our curriculum and instruction in the clinical sequence — diagnosis and remediation in reading and language arts.

I would like to explore this, and then come back to the issue of what this means for professional development — and particularly professional development in reading and language arts.

The program is committed to promoting and enhancing the quality of instruction in reading and language arts.

In reading and language arts, there is more emphasis on being broadly literate, language development, writing and communication and classroom discussion of both literature and informational texts.

The aim of SFA is to ensure success in reading and language arts skills for all students, with a particular focus on schools serving large numbers of students from low socioeconomic circumstances.

A former elementary classroom teacher, she was a co-author of Direct Instruction programs in reading and language arts.

Current law requires a state that receives title I - A funding to adopt academic standards in reading and language arts, mathematics, and science.

Tests are given about every three weeks in math, and every four - to - six weeks in reading and language arts.

Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals — from organizing their thoughts Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Note: In April of 2009, the Modern Language Association released a seventh edition of the MLA Handbook, in which they made a few important changes to MLA Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Not exact matches

Lessons will include math and reading (including the innovative techniques used in Waldorf Schools), handwork & visual arts, science labs, movement / games and foreign languages.

A child needs to be taught many decoding strategies and needs support to use those strategies in every subject area because reading is required in language arts, writing, math, social studies, science.

The episode touches on NFIB's push for workers» compensation reforms in this year's budget, the importance of packing for long session nights and the art of reading body language.

And «working with kids on science - text reading, in science class, is much more successful» than trying to do it in language arts classes, she says.

This study of 1,159 seventh graders, using both a correlational and quasi-experimental approach, compared students participating in the Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) program who also had traditional instruction to students in only a traditional reading / language arts pReading Instruction (CORI) program who also had traditional instruction to students in only a traditional reading / language arts preading / language arts program.

That task can be especially daunting in language arts literacy classrooms where reading and writing skill development is the crux of daily lessons.

The study found that OMA improved diverse students» test scores in reading, language arts, and math, as well as improving teachers» effectiveness.

Christopher Beamon received an A on the assignment, titled «Things That Go Bump in the Night,» and extra credit for reading it aloud on Oct. 27 to his English / language arts class at the 230 - student Ponder High School, located 50 miles northwest of Dallas.

Students participating in the CORI program had higher motivation, engagement, and achievement compared to students in the traditional reading / language arts program.

For example, science and English language arts teachers may have students read multiple texts about a scientific issue that is relevant to their lives or community, then ask them to evaluate the evidence and reasoning of the various texts in a collaborative discussion and write a persuasive essay in which they take a stance on the issue.

At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the early grades that call for the identification of struggling readers, require interventions to help them, and, in some instances, mandate the retention of 3rd graders who lack adequate reading skills.

Mason has worked in many Massachusetts public schools as a language - arts coordinator, an elementary program coordinator for reading and language arts, and an elementary school principal.

Interdisciplinary curricula have been shown by several studies to support students» engagement and learning (Taylor and Parsons, 2011), and specifically integrating science with reading comprehension and writing lessons has been shown by several studies to improve students» understanding in both science and English language arts (Pearson, Moje, and Greenleaf, 2010).

Outperforming the state in reading, English language arts, math, and science for the past five years

One Albemarle teacher used the same Legos - based maker project to teach content in history, science, math, language arts, reading, and writing.

And we have great data on this — in the chapter on reading and language arts, we have all sorts of success from folks who have done thAnd we have great data on this — in the chapter on reading and language arts, we have all sorts of success from folks who have done thand language arts, we have all sorts of success from folks who have done this.

Active lesson ideas to enhance the learning of content in math, reading / language arts, health, physical education, science and social studies

Starting with the 2002 — 03 school year, NWEA administered tests in mathematics, reading, and language arts to more than 90 percent of the state's students.

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But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

«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.

By the same criterion, the percentage falls to 10 percent in language arts instruction and to about 5 percent among reading teachers.

According to organizer and language arts teacher Martha Cosgrove, the club began with two ideals: to find ways for adults to connect with kids in the building beyond the classroom connections and to promote reading for pleasure among the kids through literary discussion and conversation.

A regular classroom elementary teacher of reading and language arts in grades K - 6 receives a cash award of $ 1,000 through the Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Award.

In their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documentIn their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documentin the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documents.

The Obama administration will waive cornerstone requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, including the 2014 deadline for all students to be proficient in math and reading / language arts, and will give states the freedom to set their own student - achievement goals and design their own interventions for failing schools.

Brendan Dotson learned about Urban Scholars Program while teach eighth - grade language arts and reading in SeaTac, Wash. «I was interested in the opportunity to spend time with educators who had been doing amazing work in urban schools all over the country,» he says.

This report presents the findings of a survey of English language arts (ELA) teachers from Common Core states, asking them to answer questions about the texts their students read and the instructional techniques they use in the classroom.

Porter and his team identify 217 topics in math and 163 in English language arts and reading, and five levels of cognitive demands, yielding 1,085 distinct types of content for math and 815 for English language arts.

In English language arts, the Common Core places «substantially» less emphasis on memorization and «somewhat» less on performing procedures, less on reading and language study, and more on writing processes, writing applications, and oral communication.

In English and language arts, you'd see more of a focus on nonfiction «a slight shift in the balance between fiction and nonfiction, favoring a greater emphasis on nonfiction since this is what people are typically reading in careers and so fortIn English and language arts, you'd see more of a focus on nonfiction «a slight shift in the balance between fiction and nonfiction, favoring a greater emphasis on nonfiction since this is what people are typically reading in careers and so fortin the balance between fiction and nonfiction, favoring a greater emphasis on nonfiction since this is what people are typically reading in careers and so fortin careers and so forth.

The Common Core requires a number of shifts in the teaching and learning of English / language arts (for example, an increased emphasis on non-fiction reading and discussion of reading using evidence) and mathematics (for example, a focus on going deeper into fewer topics and applying learning to real - world situations).

Kaitlyn Watson, a middle school English language arts teacher in North Carolina, has students build their own vocabulary lists from the context of their reading instead of generating whole - class lists for them, and then «they break down context clues and work toward their own applications of the words.»