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Whatever Happened to Dick and Jane?
If you were 6 years old between 1930-1967 in the U.S., there is a high likelihood that this text was the first of your school career.
SummerReads™ Brochure
Here is a brochure that summarizes the SummerReads™ program. Feel free to distribute the brochure to your friends and colleagues.
High-Leverage Action #3
ELLs may have the concepts of a topic but simply give the concepts different labels than the English ones. In a unit on the human body, native Spanish speakers know about a skeleton.
High-Leverage Action #2
In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common origin.
High-Leverage Action #1
We know that oral language is a primary way in which meaning gets constructed and built. Through talk, we come to understand concepts and our interpretations and ownership of ideas.
High-Leverage Actions That Can Make a Difference: Some Useful Background
As facilitator of the 2009 CREATE conference, I promised attendees that I would reflect on what I view to the important take-aways from the conference and share them in this venue.
Private, Personal, and Peculiar
An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be established by a literal translation of the words in the phrase.
Welcome back, Freddy
Some of you may remember that ’70s show—Welcome back, Kotter! Well…I’m welcoming myself back to writing Frankly Freddy. Why, after a three-year hiatus, would I… Read More »Welcome back, Freddy
Everyday Events
Vocabulary is one of the topics that Cassidy and Cassidy listed as hot in Reading Today. Vocabulary should always be a hot topic in that it forms the foundation of knowing and learning anything. A typical direction that educators take when a topic is hot is to think of lessons and materials and curriculum. These things are part of the solution but an additional resource lies in the everyday talk of classrooms. Language is the medium of human interaction and, like any human context, language fills classroom life.