Hearing books read aloud has the ability to transport people to faraway places and is a powerful instructional tool, but a read-aloud is more than just reading a book to a group of students.
Why the Read-Aloud?
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Vocabulary Development Strategies for Long-Term Impact
Increasing impact on Incidental Vocabulary Aquisition is a big task, but a few simple strategies can change your student’s long-term approach to new words.
CTL’s Vision of Schooling Includes Project Based Learning
Project based learning helps CTL achieve one of our goals: to advance a vision of schooling that engages all students in interesting and rigorous work, develops their talents and abilities, and prepares them for college and career.
Conceptual Understanding, the Instructional Shifts
Instructional change takes time, and teachers must be supported in understanding the changes and how to implement them in their classrooms.
The importance of developing conceptual understanding in mathematics
All three students solved this problem successfully. However, only Lucas shows evidence of using number relations to support his automaticity with basic facts.
Reading in the New Year!
We want to give you the opportunity to bring the excitement of Artful Reading 2019 to your students and your classroom. We are offering a 25% discount if you buy one of our tested modules before January 21st.
A Recipe for Student Persistence
In the quest to change classroom and school culture to one that fosters confidence and success in all students, teachers can use the formative assessment process as a key strategy in helping students who otherwise believe that their skill…