This week in my literacy class we learned about phonics & the importance of understanding how to teach phonics to students. I never learned them because I spoke Spanish and read Spanish first. Decoding them is a struggle! Imagine for our kids? #READ5373
Teacher instruction should be data driven. Data speaks, it tells us educators where to look when we help our students improve their literacy. #READ5373
This week in my reading class I learned that 60-80% of all words in secondary literary text are morphologically complex WHAT?!? Yes! This is why Greek and Latin Roots are so important, students use them to decode and make meaning of these words! #READ5373
This week in my literacy class we learned about the five pillars of literacy! Reading is no easy task and it needs a strong foundation. Here is an info graph to sum it all up! #READ5373
This week we learned about cognitive-processes that go on behind the scenes when people read. We also learned about memory, and how information is stored. #READ5373
Multiple literacies are essential to the children of today, because it will prepare them for a better tomorrow. This week we learned about the different platforms and medias that students have to be literate in. Let’s prepare them for the future #Read5373
There is much more to education than kids sitting in a classroom & an adult lecturing. This week we learned about Maslows’s Hierarchy of Needs helps us understand which needs must be met before students can truly engage in learning #read5373
Learning to read is more than letters and sounds. Comprehension is essential to be a successful reader. Today educators use multiple theories to drive reading instruction, for more visit: https://t.co/0fkhUFxvNQ #Read5373
Student academic success is strongly tied to reading comprehension. Early explicit phonics instruction can help students become better decoders thus, better readers! This is something a theory of education and model helps us educators understand! #READ5373
A2: We have a blog posing this exact question! LGBTQ-inclusive content and tools exist, but they should be made more readily available for schools through open-licensing of educational resources (#OER): https://t.co/bVLejhSI1w