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Some Research, a Sample, and Summer Learning...These are a few of my favorite things!

2/9/2015

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This morning, I awoke to a great blog post by Donalyn Miller on her Book Whisperer website.  With all the scores of politicians and business leaders toting research-based ways to instruct and lead, Donalyn cites, gee, tons of research pointing out just one thing...kids need to read and write in order to learn to read and write. Period. That's it. Read the link found below.

http://bookwhisperer.com/blog/

The other tidbit I have for you this week is a reading sample passage that is the research simulation task. It's brought to us by Dana Clark, a very smart literacy coach in Fair Lawn. Thanks for sharing. It's a great model for how to include this type of passage in our test prep work.
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A few bits of other news...

Unfortunately, I haven't been blogging as regularly as I'd like to. The PARCC test prep world and other distractions have made it very hard, but I'll be back soon.

I also don't have answer keys for the sample pieces that I posted recently. People have had a hard time sending me answer keys to the samples they wrote, so it's been a task to try to amass those. However, sitting through the passages and thinking through them with the mindset of the student is really instructionally eye-opening.

Finally, registration is open for the Paramus Summer Institutes, so check out the offerings and sign up early! Join Katherine Bomer, Kathy Collins, Jennifer Serravallo, Gravity Goldberg, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Janet Wong, Vicki Vinton, and many other speakers and hundreds of your colleagues for some amazing summer learning!

http://www.paramus.k12.nj.us/ppsd/District/2015%20Summer%20Institutes%20on%20the%20Teaching%20of%20Reading%20and%20Writing/


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