My 8P24 Langauge Blog

I Can’t Read! 😖💬               We know students who have declared ‘I can’t read!’ What if you had the resources at your fingertips to know how to help struggling readers? Through the use of the site Edugains , I will examine three resources that demonstrate the way teachers can help students who struggle with reading, using academic research.  “How to help students who struggle with reading”                LiteracyGains (2013), explains how you can support struggling students in reading complex texts, through explicit instruction to build skills that will improve reading. This resource is particularly helpful for teacher candidates or new teachers! LiteracyGains (2013) outlines what good readers should do before, during and after reading. This list could be used to help inform your reading lessons and be used as a checklist for students to help them practice...

Media Literacy  Resource 1 Common Sense Education. (2017). Cyberbullying: Be Upstanding . Retrieved from https://www.commonsense.org/education/system/files/uploads/classroom-curriculum/6-8-unit1-cyberbullyingbeupstanding.pdf?x=1                                               This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY Resource Critique              This lesson plan teaches students how to become a brave upstander when they see a person being cyberbullied. This lesson is for grades 6-8, but I think it could be modified for younger grades, as I believe it is important for all students to understand how to stand up against bullying on and offline. The lesson teaches online etiquette, creates an un...