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Jennifer retweeted
Say it louder for the folks in the back! 🎉🎉
Social Studies Educators, ikyk but for everyone else in the room..
Ahem .. teach science and social studies daily!
@scotteabbott @DrTinaEllsworth @NHTOYMc @DeeSTEM_Teach @dwayalexander
Thanks to all of the teachers and leaders ensuring daily science and social studies!
Jennifer retweeted
Happy First Day of School #GatorNation We can’t wait to meet our Little Gators! @DickinsonISD @DrBrownEDU @BayColonyElem
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DISD Junior High RLA teachers are focused around the work of what effective collaborative team time looks and sounds like. #DISDGLC
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So proud of our @DickinsonISD RLA curriculum specialists - this week they presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading National Conference about the work we’ve done with @TAMU and @KayWije. #GatorPride @DisdRla @cnvoelkel @DrRJeffreyPack
Way to go ladies! 🐊🌟
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The question I hear all of the time when I talk about choice/independent reading: How do you know if the students are really reading?
The question I ask in return: How do you know if the students are really reading the whole class novel?
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When kids struggle with reading or math, we provide more support and practice. When they struggle with behavior, we often do the opposite. Imagine giving a detention for poor ELA performance. Does anyone think that would help? Me either. #thatonekid
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Independent reading is not about a level; it’s not about a certain number of minutes. Independent reading is that reading we do that helps us develop independent thoughts - not thoughts directed by anyone else.
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It’s simple. Let kids read. (Period) Give kids choice. Never ban a book or deter a child from reading anything. (And btw—-please focus on book love, lives and NOT levels!)
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This is very true!! Amazing reminder from #dailyinspirationForEducators @casas_jimmy. Happy Tuesday everyone! #culturize – at Reston, VA
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"The right book given to the right kid at the right time is the first step in creating a lifetime reading." - Dr. Teri Lesesne.
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Most American states spend more money on incarcerating youth than education. (Bauman)
Read that again. #atplc @newfrontier21 – at Dickinson, TX
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"Social studies is the only subject with a clear, positive, and statistically significant effect on reading improvement. In contrast, extra time spent on English Language Arts (ELA) instruction has no significant relationship with reading improvement." socialstudies.org/sites/defa…
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Shanahan on test prep: There is no reason to think practice answering particular types of comprehension questions improves test performance.
shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/…
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Once more for the folks in the back row, if you claim you are giving kids reading choices, but you restrict and define every book they are "allowed" to read, you are not giving them choice at all.
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ICYMI: One way students could be writing in a math class is by responding to the graphs found at Kelly Turner's Graph of the Week site: turnersgraphoftheweek.com/
Jennifer retweeted
Don't give kids a list of characteristics of a genre. Instead, give many examples of the genre, ask them to discover the characteristics.
It builds buy-in.
They'll learn to notice as they read and to incorporate traits in their writing on purpose. #literacyBU @LindaMRief
Jennifer retweeted
Thought for the day: The more deposits that we make throughout the school day in terms of smiling, greeting, listening & talking to students & staff the more likelihood of a positive return on our investment....via #Culturize
