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Literacy Program Helps Bridgeport Teachers Better Understand And Teach Core Standards, Karen C. Waters
Literacy Program Helps Bridgeport Teachers Better Understand And Teach Core Standards, Karen C. Waters
Karen C. Waters
Called “Navigating the Common Core: The Shifts, Text Complexity and Close Reading,” the workshop was designed to help teachers better understand the standards and utilize specific strategies that address student needs in implementing the national Common Core.
Using Shared Reading And Close Reading To Bridge Intervention And The Common Core, Karen C. Waters
Using Shared Reading And Close Reading To Bridge Intervention And The Common Core, Karen C. Waters
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While classroom teachers are grappling with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and its implications for instruction in the core curriculum, designing effective intervention to meet the needs of diverse struggling readers poses another challenge, especially because Response to Intervention (RTI) as an instructional framework frequently emphasizes the teaching of discrete skills. Experts have concluded that intervention focusing primarily on foundational skills without instruction in comprehension is not only contrary to literacy research, but also antithetical to the shift to contextualized literacy instruction, resulting in fragmented instruction for those most in need. At the same time, inherent within both CCSS …
Shu Hosts First Literacy Conference, Karen C. Waters
Shu Hosts First Literacy Conference, Karen C. Waters
Karen C. Waters
On April 13 2013 Sacred Heart University’s Farrington College of Education conducted its very first Literacy Conference, including interactive and innovative workshops conducted by this year’s reading certification candidates graduating from the CLSP. The theme of the conference was “Uncommon Teaching in a Common Core World,” embracing the new Common Core State Standards.