In the great children’s book, Stone Soup by Marcia Brown, three weary travelers arrive in a hostile and unfriendly village and win the villagers over by a wily “trick”. It’s a retelling of a popular old folktale that has several versions. This book never fails to engage a group when I present it in storytelling ...
Do you know a student who struggles with poor reading comprehension? Does the student stumble over difficult words that slow down the reading speed or confuse him or her? Reading comprehension improves as word recognition improves. Here is a tutoring technique to help improve reading comprehension through use of pre-reading activities and oral reading practice. ...
Most reading strategies focus on reading before, during or after reading. Some combine these focuses. However, very few focus on all three at one time. One of the reading strategies that focus on all three phases of reading at the same time is the DRTA. What does DRTA stand for? DR stands for directed reading. ...
There is a saying that a busy person never uses time as an excuse. If we all have 24 hours in a day and 168 hours in a week how is it that some people always seem to get more done than the rest of us? Why is it that we can use time as ...
