by Fernette Eide | | Premium, Premium Content, Teachers
Academic Vocabulary are words that usually appear in higher educational settings or advanced texts rather than everyday conversational speech. Before the Common Core, most language arts programs had little emphasis on explicit teaching of academic words, but direct...
by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Education, Learning, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Social and Emotional, Teachers, Testing
When researchers compared high IQ and average test subjects in a learning paradigm, the results were surprising. In some areas high IQ individuals work less, as might be expected by the idea that higher IQ people have more efficient brains for learning tasks, but in...
by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Advocacy, Dyscalculia, Education, Math, Premium, Premium Content, Teachers
“There is nothing in the IDEA that would prohibit the use of the terms dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia in IDEA evaluation, eligibility determinations, or IEP documents.” – Michael Yudin, Department of Education “Dyscalculia is not...
by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Strategies, Teaching
ENVIRONMENT – Reduce background noise as much as possible (carpeted, tennis balls on chair legs, closed doors) – Preferential seating for students – away from doors, windows, noisy heaters, overhead projectors, pencil sharpeners, noisy classmates – Allow students to...
by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | dyslexia, Teachers, Teaching
In our one of our Premium magazine issue, we wrote about the scientific basis of late blooming and why dyslexics students – and gifted dyslexic students in particular are likely to be this way. Shelley Wear, a long-time Dyslexic Advantage volunteer and teacher...