Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
Mindwing’s Story Grammar Marker is a great tool to teach story grammar.  You use Braidy for the younger student.  The older children use a story braid  However, there are times that students have difficulty with some of the concepts presented in the program.…
 This year I wrote a grant for East Greenwich School system that helped support close reading strategies. The grant was from the Rhode Island Department of Education and it allowed staff from Frenchtown and Meadowbrook to be able to attend the Core Reading Institute…
When choosing a book for speech and language therapy you want to make sure that the text matches your student’s reading level.  There are several tools that you can use that will make this easier. Scholastic has a tool called Book Wizard: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ This will…
 In class I am using “Text Talk”. This program delivers direct vocabulary instruction of sophisticated words, combined with rich talk about text, to provide students with critical language and reading comprehension skills. This scientifically based program has been proven effective in raising students’ knowledge…
“Just as rigor does not reside in the barbell but in the act of lifting it, rigor in reading is not an attribute of a text but rather of a reader’s behavior-engaged, observant, responsive, questioning, analytical. The close reading strategies in Notice and Note will help you…