Showing posts with label Language and Literacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language and Literacy. Show all posts

Monday, March 18, 2019

I will no longer post on TALK. You can find relevant posts on the following sites:


My sites on Language, Literacy, and Learning.  I hope you will follow one of those sites!

Grow and Learn….has its own table of contents


Classroom Discourse:  Posting directly from Grow and Learn….already posted Table of Contents


Learn to Learn:


Facebook: Explorience: LL and L 


Supporting Early Literacy Skills


Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Which Framework Best Describes Individual Differences

Here's a link that I hope is helpful in making choices

http://growandlearn.pbworks.com/w/page/130649850/Models%20of%20Individual%20Differences?mode=embedded

This chart describes 4 types of resources that address "Individual" Differences

Developmental Models
     Piaget
     Vygotsky
     Bjorklund/Sternberg
     Social/Emotional/Affective Models


Curriculum Development Models
     Differentiated Instruction
     Personalized Learning
     CAST
     Agency

Current & Popular Models
     Growth Mindset
     Mindfulness
     Grit
     Habits of Mind


Assessment-Based Models
     Wide range based on Domain, Characteristic(s), Purpose of Assessment
     WISC-R
     Woodcock Johnson Cognitive
     CASEL Assessment site

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

A New Resource: Grow and Learn Wiki

I am shifting my emphasis on this TALK blog to creating pages for the Grow and Learn Wiki.

There will initially be many page revision as I get more skillful at creating folders and files in the Wiki.  Even though I began using wikis 10 years ago, I have forgotten some of the guidelines.

Here is the Front Page of new Grow and Learn Wiki:

http://growandlearn.pbworks.com/w/page/112457719/FrontPage

Friday, September 28, 2018

Review and Plan for Future Posts


TALK Friday  9 28 18

I have been reviewing my TALK*posts that started in Summer, 1015, to determine how I might proceed.  There have been 85 posted addressing Language, Literacy, and Learning for children age Birth to Grade 3.  Those themes include a focus on early language development, the relationship between language and literacy, the reading/achievement gap, social/emotional learning, and the relationship between learning success and cognitive/emotional dimension of learning in general and learning to read in particular.  This review will take a while.  I hope readers will continue to support and share these posts.



From July, 2015
The Importance of Conversation as a Tool for Learning
There is a vast literature on language development and the role that oral language plays in literacy, thinking, and learning.  I am going to use this blog to share some of that literature, focusing on translating research and theory into ideas that parents and teachers can use on a daily basis.

July, 2018

Supporting Children's Agency: Involving Children in Decision Making

 National Quality Standard | Information sheet
Genuine decision making
“Sharing the power that adults hold, and trusting that children are competent decision makers can support children’s agency.
For example, educators can:
                arrange activities, routines and the physical environment so that children have a range of opportunities to make choices about what they will do and how they will do it
                provide children with the opportunity to make choices in circumstances where their decisions will be able to be accepted."



Friday, August 3, 2018

All Learning Starts Early and Involves Interaction

From Harvard Developing Child Series:

a 2 minute video on language and literacy development beginning in infancy:

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/serve-and-return

For the entire Brain/Development series:

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/brain-architecture/