Sentences with phrase «middle school reading teachers»

This resource offers middle school reading teachers an overview of research - based instructional approaches for teaching struggling readers.

Within minutes, they were brainstorming: Wouldn't it be great if a resource existed to help middle school reading teachers find engaging texts that worked for a range of reading levels?

An experienced educator with 18 years» experience, Dr. Welch was a district finalist for the 2009 Middle School Reading Teacher of the Year and is the 2017 Gilchrist District Teacher of the Year.

Elementary School Reading Teacher of the Year Julie Amanda Sparks Middle School Reading Teacher of the Year Lydia Escobar High School Reading Teacher of the Year Susan Koester

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I found this a hilarious read considering I am a middle school foods teacher.

For middle and high school teachers, you can find most books read in the classroom on one of their tops.

I am a middle school special education math teacher, and I love music, cooking, organizing, reading, and traveling.

I have taught for 16 years in 4th grade, self - contained 5th grade, 6th - 8th Reading Intervention at the middle school level, and 12 years as a 6th grade ELA teacher.

She recently moved into the position of Instructional Resource Teacher and 6 - 8 Reading Intervention Specialist at East Cary Middle School in Cary, NC.

She has taught as an adjunct instructor in the English Skills Department at SUNY / Rockland, a General Studies Middle School Teacher, and was a reading Mentor through the East Ramapo School District.

Parents and teachers report that kids read much less in middle and high school than they did in elementary school.

The role of leader at the elementary school and middle school levels could be assigned to a teacher at each grade level for reading, writing, social studies, and so on.

«I must have inspired a kid to read more,» writes middle school teacher Jenna Weingart.

Story Maps and Boxes 6/28/2001 [Language Arts, Literature, Reading Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Patricia A. Fry] Patricia A. Fry, a teacher at Templeton Middle School in Sussex, Wisconsin, submitted this week's lesson that has students creating story maps to share information about books they have read.

Two teachers, Kristie Burke, a 7th - grade reading teacher at STRIVE, and Kerrie McCormick, a language arts teacher at a struggling DPS middle school, sat side by side while the STRIVE teachers went through a professional development day.

While reading Edgar Allan Poe helps Bennet Middle School students get into the Halloween spirit, science and math teachers lay the groundwork for more complex lessons.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

- Middle and High School Life Science Teachers - Teachers using NGSS or TEKS - Teachers who want to increase students engagement and retention - Teachers not looking to reinvent the wheel Each bundle includes 5 resources including lab station activities, individual lessons, digital scavenger hunts, readings, and lots more.

«We know when we get our primary - age children fired up about reading, they stay readers all the way through middle school, and the Accelerated Reader program helps teachers do that,» Ingram explained.

Rubric: Buck Institute for Education Planning Template (261K) Form: Casco Bay - Expedition Planning Template (568K) Guidelines: Casco Bay - High School Expedition Guidelines (568K) Rubric: Casco Bay - Making Meaning: Critical Thinking & Reading Strategies (568K) Sample Teacher Schedule from King Middle School (From Edutopia article, Sample Teacher Schedule for Middle School.)

Considering that as little as 15 percent of current middle school instructional reading is expository (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010d), adoption of the Common Core Standards means middle school teachers will need to increase the number of informational texts read in their classrooms.

The interests ranged from kindergarten through grade 12, so some students were learning to become high school math teachers, some were working on middle school social studies, and some of us, like me, were learning about beginning reading in elementary school.

As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.

Given the new demands levied by the Common Core standards, teammates and ’14 master's degree graduates Taylor Percival, Michelle Skinner, and Jessica Yarmosky are busy with CommonLit, a free online library for middle school teachers to help them easily find news articles, poetry, and other short texts aligned with the Common Core curriculum that help build reading skills across a wide array of abilities.

Pam Chandler, a sixth - grade English, reading, and social studies teacher at Sequoia Middle School in Redding, California, defines the roles her students take on in literature circles in this way:

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To develop comprehension throughout middle and high school, then, reading and language arts teachers should give lessons a clear, useful, engaging purpose.

It retains NCLB's federal framework for testing reading and math in grades 3 - 8 and again in high school, in addition to science in elementary, middle, and high school, while getting the federal government out of the business of trying to judge teacher or school quality or how to «fix» schools.

26 — Curriculum and instruction: «Across the Curriculum: Reading and Writing,» seminar, sponsored by the New England League of Middle Schools, for middle school teachers and administrators, to be held in Providence, R.I. Contact: Jean Blanchard, N.E.L.M.S., 460 Boston St., Suite 4, Topsfield, Mass. 01983 - 1223; [phone]; fax: (508) 887Middle Schools, for middle school teachers and administrators, to be held in Providence, R.I. Contact: Jean Blanchard, N.E.L.M.S., 460 Boston St., Suite 4, Topsfield, Mass. 01983 - 1223; [phone]; fax: (508) 887middle school teachers and administrators, to be held in Providence, R.I. Contact: Jean Blanchard, N.E.L.M.S., 460 Boston St., Suite 4, Topsfield, Mass. 01983 - 1223; [phone]; fax: [phone].

«Content - area teachers in middle and high school feel less prepared to teach reading skills, and they also view reading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall Readireading skills, and they also view reading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall Readireading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall ReadingReading Lab.

On parent conference nights, Los Angeles middle school teacher Carolyn Jacobson writes a wish list on her chalkboard so that parents can read it while waiting for appointments.

Adam Steiner (@steineredtech) recommends the blog post of social studies teacher Jay Barry, who notes the trend that «many boys stop reading for pleasure in middle school and those that are reading often choose books that do not challenge them as readers.»

At the secondary level, this often requires supplanting an elective in a student's schedule to provide explicit reading instruction, which can present a dilemma for middle and high school leaders and teachers.

My former middle school students often return to tell me how much they loved the novels we read as a class and how no other teacher since has awakened in them a similar passion for reading.

(Someone had convinced his parents that it was passé, so he had to rely on teachers and other students to read to him during elementary and middle school.)

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.»

06, a special education teacher and reading specialist at the Clarence R. Edwards Middle School in Charlestown, Mass., «Some states, including California, use third - grade reading scores to help predict prison populations for 10 years down the road.»

«I used to have to tell my students about phenomena, or have them read; now I can show them,» says Jim Doane, a science teacher at Scarborough Middle School, in Scarborough, Maine.

At Sutter Middle School, teacher Monica Sigala's language arts students were learning to perfect the art of letter writing while simultaneously reading about the contributions of farmworker advocate (and local hero) César Chávez.

Lara Speights Language and Literacy, Reading Specialist strand Hometown: Mexia, Texas Then: Middle school English teacher at IDEA Public Schools; dean of instruction at YES Prep Public Schools Now: Literacy specialist with YES Prep Public Schools

Lyn Robinson, a reading teacher at Belllview Middle School in Pensacola, Florida, said using Scrabble in the classroom has helped some of her lower performing students.

Cindi Rigsbee is a National Board - certified reading teacher at Gravelly Hill Middle School in Orange County, North Carolina.

Luis became an official KIPPster after moving to New York to be the founding 6th grade reading teacher for KIPP Washington Heights Middle School.

A champion reading teacher most recently at Uncommon Schools» Troy Prep Middle School, Maggie co-facilitates workshops and creates both general and reading specific Teach Like a Champion content and resources.

«The development of gender achievement gaps in mathematics and reading during elementary and middle school: examining direct cognitive assessments and teacher ratings»

Fariña's favored Teachers College Reading and Writing didn't make the cut — a conspicuous omission given the program's dominance in New York City elementary and middle schools since the early days of the Bloomberg / Klein era.

A nominee for Maryland Teacher of the Year, Bender has taught reading, English, math, history, social studies, and science to emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, gifted, and average students in elementary, middle, and high schools.

But, in fact, many teachers across the country are reading to students in middle and high schools, too, and some education researchers say more teachers of adolescents ought to be using the same strategy.

A lack of resources at the state and local level for secondary schools caused many school systems to eliminate positions for reading teachers and literacy coaches at both the middle and high school levels.

Meredith, a middle school reading specialist, began to see grant writing as part of a teacher's role and believed that inaccessibility was not an excuse for not incorporating technology: