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Language & Literacy

Connecting research to practice in language and literacy teaching and learning.

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  • Provide Our Students with Textual Feasts

    Provide Our Students with Textual Feasts

    In a webinar, Dr. Alfred Tatum discussed the need to provide our students with “textual feasts” to build their intellect, and the phrase and concept has stuck with me ever since. It resonated with me because there’s a very strong tendency, when serving our students who struggle with academic text (such as students learning English,…

    manderson

    October 28, 2020
    Literacy, Reading
    Alfred Tatum
  • The Riches of ASHA

    The Riches of ASHA

    In my last post, I wrote about the riches of Speech-Language Pathology and what this domain of research and practice has to offer for all educators. I’d also like to highlight that relatedly, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and it’s publications has a lot to offer to those of us getting into the Science of…

    manderson

    October 21, 2020
    Language, Speech-language Pathology
    ASHA, Developmental Language Disorder, dyslexia, Speech-language Pathology
  • The Riches of Speech-Language Pathology

    When I was a special education teacher, I also coordinated the IEPs (Individualized Education Programs) for my school, and served as the district representative at our IEP meetings, meaning that I had some part in most of the IEPs written in my building, whether I coordinated the gathering of information or facilitated the meeting with…

    manderson

    October 20, 2020
    Developmental Language Disorder, Language, Speech-language Pathology
  • Learning How Kids Learn to Read

    Originally posted on Schools & Ecosystems: You might assume I know something about teaching kids to read. I studied English at UCLA and obtained my master’s in education at The City College of NY. I taught special education grades 5-8 for 7 years, and I’ve supported schools and teachers throughout the Bronx with K-8 ELA…

    manderson

    October 18, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • Welcome to the Language and Literacy Blog

    Welcome to the Language and Literacy Blog

    Welcome to my new blog. My name is Mark, and I serve NYC schools. I’ve been blogging for some time over on Schools & Ecosystems, but my main focus these days is on language and literacy, rather than on the physical and social-ecological environments of schools. Plus, my writing has just totally petered out, so…

    manderson

    October 10, 2020
    Uncategorized
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