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A Structured Literacy Approach To Support Striving Readers In Secondary Grades: Meaningful Transactions Through Morphological Awareness And Fluency Building, Samantha Bart-Addison, Robert A. Griffin Dec 2021

A Structured Literacy Approach To Support Striving Readers In Secondary Grades: Meaningful Transactions Through Morphological Awareness And Fluency Building, Samantha Bart-Addison, Robert A. Griffin

Georgia Journal of Literacy

A high school English teacher and a university literacy professor provide secondary teachers with structured literacy strategies to support striving readers in the middle and high school grades. The authors present strategies that can be utilized with diverse texts across learning contexts. As a structured literacy approach, morphological awareness and prosodic fluency are emphasized to foster deeper, more meaningful transactions between students and texts. An example of a full structured literacy lesson is also provided that includes multiple strategies and is based on a gradual release model with guided and independent reading cycles. Applicable strategies for delivery of these skills …


Back Cover, Colby College Dec 2021

Back Cover, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


First Person, Dustin Satloff Dec 2021

First Person, Dustin Satloff

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Where Climate Adds Fuel To The Fires, Gerry Boyle Dec 2021

Where Climate Adds Fuel To The Fires, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Ben Hannon ’13 has seen one of the most referenced consequences of climate change up close.


On Track, Gerry Boyle Dec 2021

On Track, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

At 29, Charlotte Wilder ’11 has arrived. She’s the youngest senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where her contract was negotiated by her agent at Creative Artists Agency. Her long-form stories about everything from the NFL to the demolition derby at Maine’s Union Fair are both finely crafted and digitally successful.


Read / Listen/ Watch, Colby College Dec 2021

Read / Listen/ Watch, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Obituaries, Colby College Dec 2021

Obituaries, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Class Notes, Colby College Dec 2021

Class Notes, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Goodworks, Claire Sykes Dec 2021

Goodworks, Claire Sykes

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Media, Colby College Dec 2021

Media, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Momentum, Colby College Dec 2021

Momentum, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Shorter Takes (Short Form), Colby College Dec 2021

Shorter Takes (Short Form), Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Colby In Numbers (Numbers), Colby College Dec 2021

Colby In Numbers (Numbers), Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


From The Editor (Editor's Note), Gerry Boyle Dec 2021

From The Editor (Editor's Note), Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


This Caught Our Attention, Colby College Dec 2021

This Caught Our Attention, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Feedback, Colby College Dec 2021

Feedback, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


From The President, David A. Greene Dec 2021

From The President, David A. Greene

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Women At The Helm: Pulling The Chariot Of The Living Goddess Kumari In Kathmandu, Jui Shrestha Dec 2021

Women At The Helm: Pulling The Chariot Of The Living Goddess Kumari In Kathmandu, Jui Shrestha

Colby Magazine

Only very recently were women were allowed to pull the Kumari procession chariots. ... But still, challenges for female chariot pullers remain."


Moving North And Finding Answers: Questbridge Student Regina Martinez Considers Her Identity On Mayflower Hill, Kardelen Koldas Dec 2021

Moving North And Finding Answers: Questbridge Student Regina Martinez Considers Her Identity On Mayflower Hill, Kardelen Koldas

Colby Magazine

Martinez was one of 29 students in Colby’s first group enrolled through QuestBridge, an organization that matches academically talented low-income students with undergraduate institutions in the United States.


Colby Confidential, Scott Lainer Dec 2021

Colby Confidential, Scott Lainer

Colby Magazine

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A Taste Of Their Home: Lunar New Year Was The Occasion, But Bridge Building Was The Mission For Chinese Students, Kardelen Koldas Dec 2021

A Taste Of Their Home: Lunar New Year Was The Occasion, But Bridge Building Was The Mission For Chinese Students, Kardelen Koldas

Colby Magazine

Inside Roberts Dining Hall one night in February, the first to arrive were already filling up their plates with signature Chinese dishes: vegetable egg rolls with plum sauce, sweet rice dumplings with red bean paste, and Sichuan spicy boiled fish. White and red parasols hung above the food. Red lanterns and fu (福) signs livened up the walls for good fortune, luck, and happiness. Chinese flags proudly stretched from one column to another.


When An Economist Is A Mentor: For Yang Fan, Colby’S Teaching Philosophy Was The Right Fit, Kardelen Koldas Dec 2021

When An Economist Is A Mentor: For Yang Fan, Colby’S Teaching Philosophy Was The Right Fit, Kardelen Koldas

Colby Magazine

They say follow your passion to wherever it takes you. Yang Fan, the new Todger Anderson Assistant Professor of Investing and Behavioral Economics, did just that. He followed his passion for teaching and changed coasts, from West to the East. Now, he’s helping his students find and pursue their passions as well.


Doors Pushed Open: For Devin Gibbs, College Seemed Like A Longshot--Until It Wasn't, Kardelen Koldas Dec 2021

Doors Pushed Open: For Devin Gibbs, College Seemed Like A Longshot--Until It Wasn't, Kardelen Koldas

Colby Magazine

Before enrolling, Devin Gibbs ’14 received an invitation from Colby. The letter offered to bring him to campus and provide accommodations so he could get a feel for the school. What it didn’t say was he had, in essence, been admitted. Gibbs, who lived in Waterville just minutes from campus, thought the letter was a scam. “I had never gotten anything for free before,” he said.


Paddling The Green River, Stephen Collins Dec 2021

Paddling The Green River, Stephen Collins

Colby Magazine

If you’ve followed the career of outdoor writer Heather Hansman ’05, you’ll recognize her gasping for air after dumping her raft-load of customers into a Class V rapid on the Gauley River, avoiding avalanches in deep backcountry powder in the Rockies and Cascades, or dodging toxic algae and scary big koi swimming in an urban lake in Seattle.


A Better Way, Gerry Boyle Dec 2021

A Better Way, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Alane O’Connor ’96 studied environmental economics at Colby. Associate Professor of Statistics Liam O’Brien first studied physics and mathematics.Together the pair has combined their broad experience to produce groundbreaking research that is changing the way clinicians around the world treat pregnant and opioid-addicted women and their unborn children.


Ready, Willing, And Able, Gerry Boyle Dec 2021

Ready, Willing, And Able, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

So what gives? How, after four years on Mayflower Hill, do these Colby alumni have an outsized impact in a fintech company that is focused on, for example, changing the way municipal bonds are traded? What makes them able to dive in and figure it out? “That’s part of the liberal arts education,” said Associate Professor of History John Turner, who taught Tagg Martin ’13, history major turned MarketAxess go-to analyst. “You’re always learning. … You are always going to be mastering something, as opposed to having mastered.”


Table Of Contents, Colby College Dec 2021

Table Of Contents, Colby College

Colby Magazine

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Front Matter, Colby College Dec 2021

Front Matter, Colby College

Colby Magazine

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Inside Cover, Colby College Dec 2021

Inside Cover, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.


Cover, Colby College Dec 2021

Cover, Colby College

Colby Magazine

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