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The persistence of the U.S. achievement gap is especially problematic when we realize that current statistics likely underestimate the problem. The problem persists because of a failure in the system to provide much more than cookie-cutter instructional responses that do not address youth’s literacy needs. Too many young people leave our schools with identities as […]

We can trace the impact of such instruction into students’ independent reading of challenging academic materials. A few days later, Terrance reads a press release on a recent First Amendment case while being interviewed about his reading process and comprehension of the text. To begin, he scans the text and responds to the interviewer’s question, […]

Academic word knowledge has the potential to increase access to academic texts for all students, and especially for ELLs. This study suggested that the games and activities used are effective approaches for building academic word knowledge among adolescent ELLs. The games were, by far, the most engaging part of the intervention, and they were an […]

Large dice proved to be a great prompt for an active game for students because it encouraged active processing and personalization of word meanings. W taped a target word to each side of one die, and task to each side of another die. The tasks included instructions such as write a sentence, act it out, […]