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Click the image to download the Reading Development Across Stages PDF.
Describes what students will be able to do in the eight stages of reading development....
In this video, Vivian Pratts discusses the translanguaging pedagogy. The pedagogy itself is a teaching practice that is culturally responsive, such as dual-...
In this video, Vivian Pratts breaks down the concept of Preview, View, Review. This is a technique in which a teacher takes a few minutes prior to teaching ...
Many current iterations of Guided Reading, especially those with strong Reading Recovery® influences, heavily emphasize skill work. This skilled work often o...
In today’s educational milieu, various versions of guided reading exist. Most versions offer three components: an introduction before reading, reading and di...
Any Volunteers to Read an Engineering Textbook?
We are still in an interesting place in our field when it comes to student assessment and this culture of accou...
Text is meaningful
We have to explicitly teach them to come to print with the position that this text is meaningful and I, as the reader, need to interact wi...
You know how when you play the telephone game, you start with one message and by the time you get to the last person, the message changed dramatically from the...
Biliteracy expert Vivian Pratts outlines some of the approaches commonly used for bilingual language instruction.
Click the photo below to view the pdf. Vivian ...
