Tag: discourse
The Role of Early Oral Language in Literacy Development
Supporting young children’s language and literacy development has...
Making It Add Up for All
A fifth-grade teacher tells her class that a person mowed their entire lawn. She gives them the length and width of the hypothetical backyard...
Measuring Expressionism
Can a computerized assessment measure expressive language skills? This is an important question, since the ability to express ideas is one of the major...
Cutting to the Common Core: Disrupting Discourse
Kate Kinsella recommends launching an Academic Language Campaign to prepare diverse learners for the Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010)...
