Month: July 2020
Trailers are not just for movies!
If you like thrillers, if you like satires, you’ll like The Colony!
Read aloud, it’s good for your kids!
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99 cents, now that’s a deal! Cheaper than a cup of java and lots more fun! Reading makes them curious!
Today’s weather report
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Indefinable malaise during brief periods of consternation. The heat index reaching grim instability is expected to produce further disappointment for the nation swollen with hardships yet divided as if into two foreign countries.
Covid 19 closes schools…
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Closed schools because of Covid 19 means more trauma and for both children and parents, learning at home can mean a challenging road ahead. Children need support now more than ever. The heart of learning is in one’s ability to comprehend what they are reading. As concerns grow about the impact of learning loss when children are not in school, painting a gloomy picture in counter productive.
First Aid for Readers is a teacher select book; designed especially for tweens, teens, and adults. It supports techniques taught by teachers of the middle and upper grades by supplying the reader with a step-by-step guide that enhances before, during, and after reading skills. These strategies follow the best practices with easy to follow format, allowing readers to match their individual problems with the ones listed in the table of contents.
First Aid for Readers gives explanations, activities, examples, diagrams, and ready to use graphic organizers that will help the reader find answers to reading problems, decode unknown vocabulary, analyze poetry, text, newspapers, write summaries, and more.
Hope this helps!