An evidence-based literacy resource for students ages 8 to 13+
Help your students learn comprehension strategies, vocabulary, and fluency across the content areas with this engaging new resource.
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South Pacific Press has collaborated with Awa Press to offer a special low-price package of The Great Earth Magnet (print and e-book editions) and North Pole, South Pole for schools and families across New Zealand. |
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CSI Chapters is the latest member of the CSI Literacy family, and is now available in classrooms. The resource consists of 25 leveled chapter books and e-books for building comprehension, content literacy, vocabulary, and more. Click here for more information on CSI Chapters. |
CSI meets these needs through the provision of short, engaging content-area texts and explicit instructional materials to support literacy learning at each year level, in both hardcopy format and digital format for interactive or standard whiteboards with LCD projectors. Early results show that CSI is making a difference!
On May 22nd, 2012, the ASCD Smartbrief led with a story about changes to Californian classrooms as a result of the Common Core State Standards. Included in these changes is the “development of students' critical-thinking and problem-solving skills”. more
Sometimes it takes someone else to tell us what we already know! So it is with the vexed issue of boys’ reading achievement. In its 2009 report, the OECD acknowledged the critical role played by engagement: “Most of the gender gap can be explained by boys being less engaged, and less engaged students show lower performance” (PISA 2009 Results: Learning to Learn, Vol III, 2009, p.13). more
I was fortunate to share a meal with a group of educators in Marietta, Georgia recently. The journey from New Zealand had been long, and naturally my first impression was of the many differences between our education systems. But not long into our (delicious) lunch I was struck by the similarities of the challenges we face. I’ll highlight just three: more
How would you like to spend your school life in the bottom reading group? No matter what native flower or other cutesy name the group is given, there’s no fooling the students in the bottom reading group and Samantha for one isn’t a fan. Recently Samantha spoke to the camera about her experience as a student who has lived her classroom life in the bottom reading group, and she was forthright – “I don’t like it.” more
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