Author: DE Staff
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-08-20 09:00:00 Source link
Emotional EngagementEmotions play a critical role in memory retention and learning motivation. When students are emotionally engaged, they are more likely to invest effort and curiosity in the subject matter. Stories, as we all know, have the power to evoke powerful emotions and leave lasting impressions on us all. DE Staff 2024-08-20 08:58:00 Source link
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-07-31 18:30:29 Source link
Since ancient times, architects have used geometric principles to plan the shapes and spatial forms of buildings. In 300 B.C., the Greek mathematician Euclid defined a mathematical law of nature called the Golden Ratio. For more than two thousand years, architects have used this formula to design proportions in buildings that look pleasing to the human eye and feel balanced. It is also known as the Golden Constant because it manifests literally everywhere.The Golden Ratio still serves as a basic geometric principle in architecture. You could even call it a timeless archetype, as it evokes in human beings a universal…
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-05-21 20:37:25 Source link
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week and we couldn’t be more excited! Here at Discovery Education, every week is Teacher Appreciation Week. We are so grateful and so proud to be part of your daily lessons. To commemorate this annual May celebration, we want to share five things we absolutely love about our educators. 1. Teachers are […] The post 5 Things DE Loves About Teachers appeared first on Discovery Education Blog. DE Staff 2024-05-03 13:25:14 Source link
Comprehension means making meaning from text, but how to get to comprehension can be more complex and requires three processing systems: phonological (recognize familiar words or be able to decode unfamiliar words; meaning (understand the meaning of each word), and context (understand the meaning of sentences and entire texts).One simple strategy to support your students’ reading comprehension is to incorporate read alouds into your instruction, using turn and talk, open-ended questions, discussion protocols in small groups, and student-student discourse to ensure 100% student engagement.Another strategy, or resource, to support the development of comprehension skills is an online literacy program like…
Many intervention models include Response to intervention (RTI) or Multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) frameworks. MTSS is a coherent continuum of evidence-based, systemwide practices and procedures to support a rapid response to academic and behavioral needs. RTI is a multi-tiered approach to helping struggling learners that nestles within MTSS. It focuses on academics and individual students. Within RTI, students’ progress is closely monitored at each intervention stage to determine the need for further research-based instruction or intervention in general education, special education or both.Because intervention is individualized, it requires educators to invest much more time into identifying each student’s needs,…
Background: Who determined the five components of reading? Congress asked the National Reading Panel NRP to determine the best approaches to help children read. As a result of their research and evaluation, the organization issued an evidence-based, nearly 500-page report of their findings. Teaching Children to Read divided reading instruction into five components and summarized available research. […] The post The Five Components of Reading appeared first on Discovery Education Blog. DE Staff 2024-04-15 14:16:01 Source link
Around grade 3, there’s a dramatic shift in the reading journey. Around this time, the expectation is that students will be ready to use reading to learn grade-level content. This is the reading-to-learn phase. Students will continue to hone and sharpen these skills as they move through school and will read and understand increasingly complex texts. This ongoing phase will continue throughout each student’s academic career and beyond. This work is mostly executed through silent reading. What is silent reading fluency?Silent reading fluency is the ability to comfortably read silently with concentration, at appropriate reading rates and with clear understanding. This…