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  1. Translanguaging Pedagogy and Paired Literacy Instruction for Bilinguals

    Translanguaging Pedagogy and Paired Literacy Instruction for Bilinguals

    In this video, Vivian Pratts discusses the translanguaging pedagogy. The pedagogy itself is a teaching practice that is culturally responsive, such as dual-...
  2. Cross Language Connections During Preview, View and Review

    Cross Language Connections During Preview, View and Review

    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 ...
  3. Why We Don’t Do Skill Work Before Reading in a Guided Reading Lesson

    Why We Don’t Do Skill Work Before Reading in a Guided Reading Lesson

    Many current iterations of Guided Reading, especially those with strong Reading Recovery® influences, heavily emphasize skill work.  This skilled work often o...
  4. Putting Students in the Role of Meaning-Maker in Guided Reading Lessons

    Putting Students in the Role of Meaning-Maker in Guided Reading Lessons

    In today’s educational milieu, various versions of guided reading exist. Most versions offer three components: an introduction before reading, reading and...
  5. High Interest Books for Reluctant Readers

    High Interest Books for Reluctant Readers

    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 a...
  6. How to Teach Comprehension During Shared Reading

    How to Teach Comprehension During Shared Reading

    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...
  7. Running Records and Assessment

    Running Records and Assessment

    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 ...
  8. Bilingual Language Instruction Program Models

    Bilingual Language Instruction Program Models

    Biliteracy expert Vivian Pratts outlines some of the approaches commonly used for bilingual language instruction.   Click the photo below to view the pdf ...
  9. Guided Reading Success: Recognizing High-Frequency Words

    Guided Reading Success: Recognizing High-Frequency Words

    The key to success for beginning readers is recognizing high-frequency words. One of the first hurdles a beginning reader must overcome when learning to read is...

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