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You know what Robert Frost said, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…” Lately I’ve been explaining issues of struggling children in the metaphor of two roads. About 50 – 60% of the population has a relatively smooth […]
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Know What You Are Targeting There are essentially two types of reading problems. In the first type, the child has trouble decoding words and reading fluently. In the second, the child can read fluently, but has difficulty understanding what is […]
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Last week I reminded us of an “old school” educational concept that isn’t talked about as much as I think it should be – “task analysis.” (www.shutdownlearner.com/blog) This week’s old school concept is Instructional Levels. In our Response to Intervention […]
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There are a number of old school concepts in education that I don’t hear much about any more that I think still apply. “Task analysis” is one of them. With task analysis the idea is that any end point task […]
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Many shut-down learner kids, have great trouble with different facets of language that we often take for granted. Take Emma, age 8. The other night, Emma was told by her mother that her father was “tied up in traffic.” Emma […]
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