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What is a Question Creation Chart (QC2)?
The Question Creation Chart (also known as a Q-Chart or Q-Matrix) provides students with a framework for developing a range of personally meaningful questions, encompassing both close-ended factual questions and open-ended, divergent questions. (Adapted from Weiderhold, 1997).
Why use it?
To provide students with a framework for creating their own divergent and convergent questions on a specific topic.
To encourage students to think deeply about a topic.
To help students strengthen their understanding and comprehension of a topic.
To stimulate students’ prior knowledge about a topic.
To collect information about students’ knowledge and understanding of a topic.
Directions: Create questions by using one word from the left hand column and one word from the top row. The farther down and to the right you go, the more complex and high-level the questions.
Materials to develop questioning strategies while reading.
The Quick Write is a literacy strategy that is designed to give students the opportunity to reflect upon their learning. This writing assignment can be used at the beginning, middle, or end of a lesson and takes only about three to five minutes. Short, open-ended statements are usually given.
Anyone can use Quizlet to study and learn content created by other users, or to create your own custom study sets. You can also share sets with friends, classmates or your students.
The best way to get started on Quizlet as a student or a teacher is to search for sets made by other Quizlet users. Students and teachers create new study sets all the time, so it's quite likely that you'll be able to find what you're looking for.
This is a great tool for formative assessment. Students can work in groups and compare answers and learn from one another.
This chart takes the KWL chart to a new level.
Students can be motivated to improve classroom behaviors if they have both a clear roadmap of the teacher's behavioral expectations and incentives to work toward those behavioral goals. This modified version of Check-In/Check-Out (CI/CO) is a simple behavioral intervention package designed for use during a single 30- to 90-minute classroom period (Dart, Cook, Collins, Gresham & Chenier, 2012). The teacher checks in with the student to set behavioral goals at the start of the period, then checks out with the student at the close of the period to rate that student's conduct and award points or other incentives earned for attaining behavioral goal(s).
The Color Wheel is one solution that enforces uniform group expectations for conduct while also responding flexibly to the differing behavioral demands of diverse learning activities. This classwide intervention divides all activities into 3 categories and links each category to a color: green for free time/ low-structure activities; yellow for large- or small-group instruction/independent work; and red for brief transitions between activities. The student learns a short list of behavioral rules for each category and, when given a color cue, can switch quickly from one set of rules to another.
Intervention Central provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention and attain the Common Core State Standards.
Find amazing resources for Random Acts of Kindness including:
RAK Calendars for each month
Posters
Bookmarks
Bingo
Colouring
& more!
This is a fabulous read aloud routine to use with practically any age of students. This routine takes about a half hour while reading one passage.
This routine can help build language comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and background knowledge.
Have you ever had a student who reads out loud beautifully, but struggles to understand the meaning behind what they just read?
Science of Reading research has uncovered key insights that help explain this behavior, and can help your students bridge the gap between decoding and comprehension.
Download the free infographic to understand the missing link in reading comprehension and learn how to incorporate comprehension processes practice into your instruction.
Download the free infographic and you will learn:
Why students may struggle with language comprehension.
Why mental modeling is key to understanding text.
Types of comprehension processes and how to practice them in the classroom.
This resource explains how you can access MS Reading Progress and Reading Coach in MS Teams.
This extensive 204 page classroom guide will help teachers structure explicit and effective interventions for students in grades 4-9 (following the Science of Reading).
Recommendations include:
*build decoding skills
*purposeful fluency-building activities
*comprehension-building practices
*build world and word knowledge
*question opportunities
*teach "gist" summary skills
*teach to monitor
*practice practice
Just released!
This new practice guide provides four evidence-based recommendations that teachers can use to deliver reading intervention to meet the needs of their students in grades 4-9.
The 4 recommendations outlined in the guide included:
(1) multisyllabic word reading
(2) fluency building
(3) comp-building practices &
(4) stretch text.
Access the guide here: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide/29
Webinar on New WWC (What Works Clearinghouse) Practice Guide
Apr 13, 2022 09:00 AM
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This professional development covers why reading is the cornerstone of all education and the PeBL philosophy.
Reading is demystified into the components that all students need to read. Then strategies and the transfer of responsibility are used supporting the Saskatchewan Reads framework.
The materials used through out the presentation are included in the folder for this presentation in the PeBL ELA Team group in the folder entitled "Reading PD (PeBL Mentor PD).
Contact any members of the team for further information.
The Reading League (TRL) is a national education nonprofit led by educators and reading experts dedicated to promoting knowledge to reimagine the future of literacy education and accelerate the global movement toward reading instruction rooted in science.
This is a Reading List for ELA 10-30 created by ELA teachers in Sun West School Division during our PLC groups in 2020-2021. The list has resources we have used; some with suggestions for content, useability, and readability. There is also a section at the bottom with some cross-curricular and/or sports-themed literature.
This is an end-to-end tutorial of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. This is a Microsoft Teams new feature for education that improves student reading fluency, saves time and tracks insights and progress. Reading Progress is one of the new features in Microsoft Teams for Education. Teams Reading Progress is a FREE tool that supports students in building reading fluency through independent reading practice, educator review, and educator insights. Reading Progress allows educators to assign reading fluency passages that students can independently record themselves reading out loud. Educators can review the audio and video, and gather insights automatically on student progress. The program automatically detects the student's reading fluency and accuracy. Teachers can get fluency/accuracy data on individual students and for the whole class.
Check out Microsoft Teams Reading Progress blog: https://aka.ms/ReadingProgressMay2021 to see even more of what this great tool can do for you!