Educational Links 5/31/18

Why Teaching English Through Content Is Critical for ELL Students

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51268/why-teaching-english-through-content-is-critical-for-ell-students?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Engaging Learning to End the School Year

http://blog.mimio.com/engaging-learning-to-end-the-school-year

The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

http://hechingerreport.org/the-massive-personalized-learning-experiment-in-new-orleans-schools/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HechingerReport+%28Hechinger+Report%29

Comprehension Skills or Strategies: Is there a difference and does it matter?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/comprehension-skills-or-strategies-there-difference-and-does-it-matter?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

Teaching Strategies to Help Build Self-Confidence

http://www.teachhub.com/teaching-strategies-help-build-self-confidence

Tch Tips: Four Ways to Gather Student Feedback

https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2018/05/30/tch-tips-gather-student-feedback/

Summer Survival Guide for Parents of Extreme Children

https://www.additudemag.com/summer-survival-extreme-children-adhd/

What Is Dyslexia?

http://dyslexia.yale.edu/dyslexia/what-is-dyslexia/

Reading is complex. It requires our brains to connect letters to sounds, put those sounds in the right order, and pull the words together into sentences and paragraphs we can read and comprehend.

People with dyslexia have trouble matching the letters they see on the page with the sounds those letters and combinations of letters make. And when they have trouble with that step, all the other steps are harder.