Tag: discourse
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 and asks them what the area of the space is....
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 indicators for College and Career readiness. Many times, I am...
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) rolling out in 46 states aim to graduate all U.S....
The Role of Early Oral Language in Literacy Development
Timothy Shanahan and Christopher Lonigan explore the connection between early oral language development and later reading comprehension success
Supporting young children’s language and literacy development has long been considered a practice that yields strong readers...