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How to use the Language Experience Approach reading strategy, or LEA, with beginning readers to increase elementary students' ability to decode and comprehend text. more...
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By: Mandy Yates
Engage students in a visualizing lesson that teaches them about the nonfiction text feature comparisons. more...
Independent Reading Verses S.S.R.
By: Mandy Yates
Independent Reading is quite different than Sustained Silent Reading or D.E.A.R in the components of time, book selection, and the student and teacher's roles. more...
By: Mandy Yates
Implementing a Reading Workshop requires certain basic components which consist of: Modeling Mini-lessons, Independent Reading, and then Sharing and Reflection. more...
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Students can learn how to choose a just right book that matches their reading level by using the five finger rule, the Goldilocks method, and by activating their schema. more...
By: Mandy Yates
Build your students' vocabulary through reading aloud children's literature. Listen for interesting words, discuss their meanings, and place them on word walls. more...
The Basics of Writing Workshop
By: Mandy Yates
Writing workshop is a structure for teaching writing in which students are provided with time to write on topics of their own choice. more...
Independent Reading Strategies
By: Mandy Yates
Independent reading is a time for students to make their own book choices, apply reading strategies, have large blocks of time to read and set independent reading goals. more...
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