English Language arts may be a difficult subject for some students to become a master in. Students may have a hard time with reading, falling behind their peers who have more fluent skills. Students may lack comprehension skills when asked questions pertaining to what they have read such as character analysis, plot, theme, narration voice, …
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We have been working all semester to determine the definition of inquiry and how it is used within disciplinary literacy. We as teachers know that asking our students questions is important to ensure they are learning and understanding what is happening within the content. But what is kidwatching and responsive teaching? What do the three …
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Mathematics is a core subject in school that all students must learn. It involves working with numbers in hundreds of different ways. Some easy such as 2+2, and others so difficult that only old mathematicians know how to solve them. But math is more than just using numbers, right? If it involves reading, understanding, background …
Since I’ve been in school, I can always remember teachers asking “Why” of “How do you know” after many answers myself or my peers would give to questions they had asked. Sometimes it posed a difficulty to students who knew the right answer but did not know how to explain it. Other times, students would …
They preach to students in elementary school that all the skills and knowledge they learn will come in handy in middle school. They preach the same thing to you when you are in middle school about high school and high school about college. However, if all the things you learn in elementary school will set …
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Science content is different than history and history is different than English. All three of those subjects are different than math content. But how can they be taught in similar ways? Every subject area within schools requires students to read texts or problems in ways that are crucial to understanding that specific content. For example, …
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People read things everyday. From restaurant menus to subtitles of a movie and everything else they may encounter that has words. One of the first things children do in school is learn to read. They begin learning letter sounds and the meanings of words. While students are learning how to do these things, they may …
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