Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Carole V. Bell on Nella Larsen’s Passing, Megan O’Grady on Lily King’s Five Tuesdays in Winter, Ron Charles on Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence, Emma Levy on Emily Ratajkowski’s My Body, and Christian Lorentzen on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.” * “The one thing most people know about Nella Larsen’s Passing is that it explores a peculiar kind of deception—being born into one marginalized racial category and slipping into another, for privilege, security, or power. But the significance of Passing isn’t found in the surface facts but in the brilliance of its execution: the beauty of the writing, the close character...
My kids are wimps, and I love them for it. My 5-year-old son cries over movies like Charlotte’s Web and Toy Story. He pulls the “blankie,” which he refuses to give up, close to his chin and uses it to catch the tears that fall with increasing frequency as the sad parts intensify. He likes hugs, cuddles, and refuses to go to bed without saying “I love you.” He has a soft spot that’s easily detectable. He has no interest in sports and thinks violence is stupid beyond comprehension. My 9-year-old daughter cries over the thought of animal cruelty. She’s started taking an interest in the news and current events. Any mention of the mistreatment of animals and she cycles...
Alfred Binet (1857 – 1911) a French psychologist who with his pupil Theodore Simon (1873 – 1961) are known for inventing the first IQ test in 1905. Binet and Simon were involved in a public effort, through a Government Commission, to assess children with special educational needs and invented the first IQ test, in 1905. The purpose was to more accurately match children’s needs to educational needs and focus on children who needed help. His measure was related to ‘mental age’ and was to have a profound effect on the development of IQ tests, along with their implementation in educational policy and practice. Measuring intelligence Early in Binet’s career he was involved in research on behaviour under hypnosis. This was controversial...
We teach all of our students sight words, but there isn’t one way to practice them. There are a ton of ways to teach sight words to our students. Read on to learn 10 ways to practice sight words with your students. If you need help with sight word IEP goals, be sure to read this blog post next! I use these sight word flashcards with my students. Sight Words Flashcards The first way to practice sight words is the most obvious: sight word flashcards. There are so many different sight word lists, so you can choose the set that works best for your students or whichever set your school uses. Depending on your students’ response methods, you can use...
Starting a new school year is an exciting time for teachers and students alike. The long summer break gives everyone a chance to disconnect and prepare to begin the new academic year with a clean slate. While students usually don’t spend too much of their summer thinking about the new school year, teachers need to pick and prepare their materials and the best tools ahead of time. Of course, technology changes frequently, so it’s important to stay on top of things. As you probably already know, sometimes you need to switch things up and try something new even if it’s not in the original plan. So even if we’re already a few months into the new school year, here are...
