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In many respects, writing is the window in to understanding what a child needs academically and emotionally. Let’s take a look at George, a 9-year boy in the fourth grade. George feels that other kids make fun of him because […]
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Let’s say your 12-year-old sixth grader, spells the following words: bref (brief) susess (success) edcccate (educate) resolt (result) kicten (kitchen Then he writes the following story to a picture prompt: “Once a o pon a […]
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Let’s say a child knows a few notes on the piano, but does not yet know any songs. Would it make sense to ask him to play a challenging song that was clearly beyond his/her ability level? I don’t think […]
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For a whole host of reasons that won’t be raised at the moment, writing is difficult to adequately assess, even though there are standardized measures that practitioners and education specialists use in the assessment of writing. I would be willing […]
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Years ago I had the privilege of being in an audience of about 500 participants listening to a lecture on learning disorders from the renowned neurologist, Dr. Martha Denckla. As Dr. Denckla noted, “It’s like these kids who are struggling […]