The 2017 Gallup Poll, Engaged Today – Ready for Tomorrow, showed that less than 50 percent of students are actively engaged in the learning process at school. Research has shown that when students are actively engaged in the learning process, they are more likely to understand and retain the content we are trying to teach…
Words Matter – Active Vocabulary Acquisition
“Words matter.” We’ve all heard these words in the news lately, but for teachers of reading, this phrase has a whole different connotation. Words matter, because it is our goal for our students to acquire an increasingly sophisticated vocabulary to enhance comprehension and to use words in writing with specificity. The problem lies in engaging…