Reading aloud to students during class time may sound like a simple, almost quaint, endeavor, as if from a bygone era. But literacy experts insist that it’s every bit as relevant now as ever, and they ...
In an age where attention is short and classrooms are increasingly digital, teachers are constantly searching for ways ...
Here’s the latest installment in a series on ways to help ELLs develop more English-speaking skills ... To become well-spoken and effective communicators, English-learners, hereafter referred to as ...
GRAND FORKS – In the front of the fluorescent-lit interior classroom, Andrea Parks read aloud from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, stopping frequently to question her students: what did we just ...
Only about 7 percent of English language learners in the Boston Public Schools are enrolled in dual-language programs, a proven approach that provides some lessons in the student’s native language.
CHELSEA — Reading aloud a novel to a class of fifth-graders, dark-rimmed glasses perched on the tip of her nose, Darby Drafts had fallen into a common teacher trap. Put simply, she was doing more work ...