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Nurture A Reader: TAGteach seminar in the U.K.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012. TAGteach seminar in the U.K. Set yourself apart as a certified 'positive' teacher who looks for success instead of failure. Dramatically increase student/client focus. Instantly reduce student/client anxiety. Turn nag points into "TAG points". Increase the 'fun' quotient for you and the client. Oh, Yes, He/She/You Can. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Children of the Code: A PBS Documentary. Clackmannanshire 7-Year Longitudinal Study.
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Nurture A Reader: On teaching "Sight Words" as wholes - Stanislas Dehaene explains
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Thursday, October 3, 2013. On teaching "Sight Words" as wholes - Stanislas Dehaene explains. Stanislas Dehaene, neuroscientist and author of Reading and the Brain. 2009), gave a lecture in 2012 on what educators can learn from neuroscience regarding reading: "How the Brain Learns to Read.". Some points of particular interest:. C 12:24-16:26 Teaching words as wholes? C 22:35 Cursive writing is good, perhaps because it "breaks the symmetry.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jelly and Bean Decodables.
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Nurture A Reader: Printable Letter-Sound Flashcards (print letters)
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Sunday, October 23, 2011. Printable Letter-Sound Flashcards (print letters). Is a good source for free, downloadable grapheme-phoneme tiles, aka letter-sound cards, aka phonogram cards. These are in print letters, which are more likely to be used in the U.S. than the "pre-cursive" letters often used in England. The tiles are not just the alphabet letter-sounds; they include letter-groups. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Children of the Code: A PBS Documentary.
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Nurture A Reader: January 2011
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Saturday, January 8, 2011. Marilyn Jager Adams on Older, Struggling Readers. Dr Marilyn Jager Adams, author of Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print. And Research Professor in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Department at Brown University was interviewed by Delia Stafford-Johnson of EducationNews.org in 2008. About the older struggling reader. I wish that all upper grade level teachers would receive professional development in how to look for signs of reading difficulties. There ...
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Nurture A Reader: Ed Schools "Literacy" Agendas on the Defensive
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Friday, April 6, 2012. Ed Schools "Literacy" Agendas on the Defensive. Imagine a physics program that won’t teach the theory of relativity. Or an English department that shuns Shakespeare. That would be equivalent to how U.S. schools of education treat the most effective method for teaching beginning reading. That method is called decoding, the shorthand word for the scientifically tested techniques for teaching children the relationships between symbols and sounds. Activists in Wisconsin (2012). Report ...
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Nurture A Reader: February 2012
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012. TAGteach seminar in the U.K. Set yourself apart as a certified 'positive' teacher who looks for success instead of failure. Dramatically increase student/client focus. Instantly reduce student/client anxiety. Turn nag points into "TAG points". Increase the 'fun' quotient for you and the client. Oh, Yes, He/She/You Can. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Children of the Code: A PBS Documentary. National Right to Read Foundation.
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Nurture A Reader: 4 Down. Circa 599,996 To Go.
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Friday, October 14, 2011. 4 Down. Circa 599,996 To Go. Lots of kindergartners here in the U.S. have begun the process of learning words as wholes. It's mid-October and many students are this far along:. The, I, am, little. The, an, away, me. Unfortunately, at best, they can only distinguish those words from each other. How far along are the students taught with Jolly Phonics. Or other synthetic phonics programs? That's a story for another post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jelly and Bean Decodables.