While everyone loves to relax in the summer heat and have lots of fun, it is also a time where our learning can slow down or stop completely. This phenomena is called the “summer slide”. While this is something we all should avoid, we’ve come up with some ways to keep learning while still having …
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What is the Summer Slide? The “summer slide” is a reading skills learning loss from children not maintaining their reading activities over summer. The average student falls behind one month’s worth of reading skills during the summer. As well as children in low income households losing double that. This is according to a Brookings Institute …
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Melissa Saisuwan is a Grade 7 ELAR Teacher at Wichita Falls Independent School District in Wichita Falls, Texas How and when do you use Dreamscape with your students? I usually use Dreamscape during tutorials and for additional work and learning at home. This is roughly 2-3 times a week with my students and children. I …
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Gina Berry is a Grade 7 ELA Teacher at Andrew Carnegie Middle School in Sacramento, California Gina Berry uses Dreamscape during her regular school year but has also been looking into an “optional extension activity”. She does this by building a Dreamscape club for the upcoming school year! She is currently using Dreamscape in her …
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Aaron Stroup is a Grade 5 teacher and social studies facilitator at Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas. Please describe how and when you use Dreamscape with your students. In the classroom, I use Dreamscape to reinforce reading lessons I teach, and I use the data as feedback for which concepts they need to practice …
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Sasha Lucas is a Digital Technologies Leader & Senior Teacher at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Primary School, Cranbourne East, AUS. Australian teachers list Sasha are using Dreamscape in the classroom to engage students and track the progress of important reading skills. Please describe how and when you use Dreamscape with your students? We use …
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What is the Summer Slide? In the ELA context, the “summer slide” is a reading skills learning loss that is a consequence of children not maintaining their reading activities over the summer months. According to a Brookings Institute article written by David M. Quinn and Morgan Polikoff, the average student falls behind an average of one month’s worth of …
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