Literacy
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Join us for a celebration of the launch of the Maryland Initiative for Literacy and Equity (MILE), including remarks from UMD President Darryll Pines. Please RSVP here.
Improving reading achievement at the secondary level: Bringing evidence-based practices to scale with research-practice partnerships
Dr. Jade Wexler, College of Education Impact Professor, will provide an overview and facilitate a panel discussion about two U.S. Department of Education-funded grants supporting the development and evaluation of AIM Coaching in partnership with Montgomery County Public Schools. Please join her and several MCPS partners for a presentation and discussion of this ongoing work.
Literacy is everywhere: Identifying opportunities to support children’s language and literacy within everyday routines
The role of early experiences on the neurobiology of language and literacy development
Integrating numeracy and literacy: A family picture book intervention for building early numeracy skills
African American English in 2nd and 3rd Grade Writing: Implications for Teacher Reflection and Education
Taffeta Wood (speaker) & Dr. Brandy Gatlin-Nash, University of California, Irvine
Join Zoom Meeting here: https://umd.zoom.us/j/817699157
Meeting ID: 817 699 157
African American English and early literacy: A comparison of approaches to quantifying nonmainstream dialect use
Title: A Language-based Approach to Content Instruction (LACI): Scaffolding for literacy
Abstract: Scaffolding is a challenging task in elementary classrooms. Drawing on a research study, the presenter describes how a first grade teacher utilized a language-based approach to content instruction (LACI) to provide scaffolding to support emergent to advanced bilinguals’ literacy learning. LACI is a teacher education model developed over the past 12 years in elementary and secondary classrooms in the United States.