During my recent trip to Reggio Emilia, Italy to participate in an intensive study on the Reggio Children approach, it became visibly crystal clear the powerful learning moments as written ...
There are 125 sheep and 5 dogs in the flock. How old is the shepherd? Wait a minute? What? When presented with this problem, 75% of 8th graders answered with ...
As an educator, I am consistently seeking creative and engaging ways to help my students deepen their comprehension of text. As we know, “Variety is the spice of life.” Whether ...
Yesterday, I presented one of my workshops titled Text-Dependent Questions to a group of elementary school teachers. Teachers are always seeking strategies and protocols to help their students better comprehend ...
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” – Voltaire The NJDOE has given school districts across the state a September 2017 deadline to revise and align ...
At Teachers College in January, Mary Ehrenworth’s Argumentative Writing workshops focused on engaging students in oral debate as a springboard to powerful argumentative writing. When students can verbally articulate their ...
Nowadays, students are called upon to respond to questions which require them to go back into the text to find evidence to support their claim. Engaging in this practice repeatedly ...
For as long as I can remember as an elementary school teacher, I always used texts to build background knowledge, introduce new vocabulary, and read aloud beautifully written literature with ...
Close reading is the buzz word today in education. Teachers, administrators, parents and students are searching for foolproof strategies to ensure students are deeply understanding complex text. The work of ...