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Do Parents Know What Questions to Ask You (Don’t Forget Cognitive Skills!)

Do Parents Know What Questions to Ask You (Don’t Forget Cognitive Skills!) | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
How can you be sure that you are prepared to help your child get the most from this school year? Getting the answers to these questions can help.
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What if you read this post and think of it as 10 answers you will provide to parents when they come in for a teacher conference? Parents may not know the best questions to ask, and this is one way to educate them. What are the questions. Three are below, The rest may be found in the post.

* Student Feedback & Support - How do you like to provide feedback to students? Are there any interventions to help children who need a little extra attention? When are you available if my child needs extra help? 

* Cognitive Skills – How would you say my child is doing, as compared to peers, in these areas: 

     Memory: How well does my child learn and remember new information? Does he or she require more or less support than peers? How easily is information retained?

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Getting FLUENT with the 5 FLUENCIES…

Getting FLUENT with the 5 FLUENCIES… | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
A couple of weeks ago we started a “series” based on the work of those lovely chaps at the 21st Century Fluency Project – Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes and Andrew Churches very kindly gave me pe...
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A Sure-Fire Way to Improve Reading Fluency

A Sure-Fire Way to Improve Reading Fluency | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Telling your students that they need to become fluent readers is an abstract concept that will help neither you nor your students. You can give them examples of what fluent readers do, model reading in a fluent way; but they will not truly understand the idea until they experience it themselves."

The post discusses having students:

* Learn by Doing

* Epiphanies they may discover

* Options for recording 

It also provides resources for recording in PowerPoint 2003 and 2007, a fluent reader checklist and a tutorial on how to use Audacity.

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