Using text marking is a proven strategy for teaching reading comprehension. One of the essential skills that students need to develop is reading comprehension. It is the ability to understand…
Let’s talk about self-advocacy. This is a skill that I wish that I had learned as a child. It wasn’t until I was much older before I learned to advocate…
How often do we tell students to cite text evidence in their answers? It is often a requirement on tests, assignments, and homework. Yet, have we explicitly taught that skill?…
One morning, I was helping a 7th grade student finish an assignment for Language Arts class. The assignment was to find and highlight the proper nouns in a passage. As…
