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Helping Struggling Writers: Building Foundational Writing Skills

Jan 13, 2022 | Uncategorized

Writing has its foundational skills, one of which is sentence construction. In a recent article, Chandler and Sayeski (2021) presented a plan for developing sentence-writing capability while at the same time building content knowledge. The authors described six...

Closing the Literacy Gap with Adaptive Assessment and Instruction

Sep 23, 2021 | Uncategorized

Based on data from three national assessments, there has been an overall Covid induced decline in students’ reading achievement. On the Star Early Literacy and Star Reading Scale, students’ scores decline by 4 percentile points, which is equivalent to about seven...

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