A Beginner’s Guide to Text Complexity

A Beginner’s Guide to Text Complexity

The New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards (2017) outline the importance of teaching a range of texts, including focusing on the complexity of reading the words on the page, as well as the complexity of building language and knowledge.

Critical Reading and the Importance of Questioning

Critical Reading and the Importance of Questioning

At the start of the school year the media usually raises the issue about the increasing number of students who are failing to learn to read. The interesting thing is, there is no evidence that standards of achievement in reading are declining.

What is Effective Teaching of Literacy?

What is Effective Teaching of Literacy?

Experts have been debating the best way to teach reading for over fifty years. In reality, there is no single method that will teach all students to read and write successfully. Over the years, various approaches have come in and out of favor in an effort to raise achievement.

What is Effective Teaching of Mathematics?

What is Effective Teaching of Mathematics?

The old paradigm of balanced instruction focused on enabling children and teachers to achieve success at school. Today’s paradigm focuses on students achieving college and career readiness in life, beyond school.

Supporting English Language Learners

Supporting English Language Learners

One of the most significant challenges we face in public education is how best to prepare all our students for a rapidly changing, technology driven, global world. To do so, we need to broaden our view of student achievement to include a greater emphasis on the higher order skills necessary for developing global citizens who are ready for the world beyond school.

English Learners Program Design

English Learners Program Design

The factor that most impacts student achievement is teacher preparation and effectiveness (Darling-Hammond, 2000.) However, school leaders have come to terms with the fact that more and more professional development does not necessarily translate into teacher effectiveness.

Raising Student Achievement Through PD

Raising Student Achievement Through PD

The most powerful way to raise student achievement is through professional learning. More than ever before, students need effective teaching if they are to develop the higher order thinking skills they will need to be career and college ready in the 21st century.

Introduction to the Reading Process

Adolescent Readers in Middle School

The current crisis in adolescent literacy is well documented. There is a significant disparity between the education our students receive and the demands of life in the 21st century. Traditionally, education aims to raise standards by any means, but we are coming to see that preparing students for tests and preparing them for life beyond school are very different goals.

Light – A generation ready for anything.

 

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Bold – A generation ready for anything.

 

Light – A generation ready for anything.

 

Regular – A generation ready for anything.

 

Semi-bold – A generation ready for anything.

 

Bold – A generation ready for anything.

 

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