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This sample instructional unit is designed to build and deepen students’ understanding of common benchmark fractions, decimals, and percents. First, students explore the fraction ½, its connections to decimals and percents, and its use as a benchmark.When they show mastery and conceptual…
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Use these rubrics to analyze informational or literary texts for their qualitative level of complexity. Combine with quantitative measures of readability to select the appropriate text for students.
These rubrics are adapted from Standards-in-Action work around the College and Career Readiness…
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Think number lines are just for kids? Think again! Number lines are a flexible tool that can be used to strengthen students' math comprehension knowledge in several ways.
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Though Massachusetts now uses the CCR Standards in place of the Massachusetts ABE Curriculum Frameworks, the "Revised Reading Strand" (2010) of the Frameworks is still a good resource for implementing CCR Standards.Included here are the entire revised Reading Strand (see below), and a few excerpts…
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This video shows how to administer the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading (DAR) to a potential STAR student to determine the appropriate level of instruction for alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Anna Fernandez-Buehrens is the DAR administrator and Rosemarie Cole is the student at…
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This video shows how to administer the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading (DAR) to a non-native English speaking student in order to determine if this student is eligible for the STAR class and also to determine the appropriate instructional level for alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and…
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In this video, Joan Schottenfeld is the teacher and she is joined by her students from the Boston Centers for Youth and Families/Perkins Adult Learning Program. Joan demonstrates on how to teach comprehension using the summarizing strategy, Topic and Main point.
Joan uses explicit instruction by…
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The STAR Vocabulary Lesson video demonstrates on how to teach vocabulary to a STAR class using explicit instruction.
Joan Schottenfeld is the teacher and also is a certified STAR trainer. She is joined in this video by her students from the Boston Centers for Youth and Families/Perkins Adult…
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This website describes the strategies used and the results observed by the 18 programs doing action research through the New England Learner Persistence Project. The site describes the six drivers of persistence, which were gleaned from the project, and provides program self-assessment tools for…
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O*Net Online is a tool for career exploration and job analysis. It is a searchable data base with detailed descriptions of hundreds of occupations, providing students and job seekers with crucial information for career planning. The tool is also available in Spanish.
