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Creating Strategies: Designing Lessons For The Elementary Classroom, Elizabeth A. Morphis
Creating Strategies: Designing Lessons For The Elementary Classroom, Elizabeth A. Morphis
The Montana English Journal
The relationship between reading skills and reading strategies is important to consider as teachers design individual strategy lessons to support bigger concepts or skills that elementary students need to apply. This article highlights three reading strategy lessons that were designed and implemented by preservice teachers to support students in the elementary classroom. The reading strategies supported the skills of communication, summarizing, and reading comprehension. The lessons were effectively planned and executed because they connected to the students’ lives and interests, facilitated communication, and focused on the lesson objective.
Poverty, According To Gorski, Kristyna M. Rudio
Poverty, According To Gorski, Kristyna M. Rudio
The Montana English Journal
In this poem, "Poverty, According to Gorski", the main points of Paul Gorski's book Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap (Second Edition) are outlined. The poem discusses and summarizes topics heavily researched by Gorski such as meritocracy, equality, equity, equity literacy, ideologies, and strategies to help classroom teachers, administrators, and leaders in literacy help to break down barriers for students and families experiencing poverty.