Description
When working with students from a low-income community, Dr. Joyce Juntune discovered that some of the students didn’t know the word for "train" or how to describe what it did — even though the train tracks ran through the middle of their neighborhood! This clearly demonstrated the challenges these students faced. No one had described or explained to them a prominent feature of their lives, so they did not possess the language to express it themselves.
In Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language, Dr. Juntune equips teachers with activities and simple strategies to help students build complex language skills. Activities such as sketching and 10-minute bulletin boards can be incorporated into many different curriculum areas.
In this 1-hour course, teachers will learn:
- Why having a complex language structure is essential to academic achievement
- Strategies for building complex language
Becky – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
This definitely gave me a better understanding of how to help my students who are low achievers. I will definitely be using the sketching and verbalizing daily in my class.
Rosario – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Emily – ROCK HILL LOCAL (verified owner) –
Seemed lengthy but full of info.