I am honored to be Trumbull’s Teacher of the Year 2011-2012! Thank-you staff and families for
your support and encouragement. It will be a GREAT Year!!!!
http://www.trumbullps.org/tea/teacheroftheyear.html
http://www.trumbullps.org/tea/Awards.html
Does it really matter if I read to my child every day?
Yes, if daily reading for 30 minutes a day begins at birth, by the time the
child is 5 years old, he or
she has been fed roughly 900 hours of brain food.
No teacher, No matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours!
http://www.ed.gov/
Explicit direct vocabulary instruction can teach, at best, 400 words a year (Beck, McKeown & Kucan,
2002), a far cry from the 5,000 or so words students need to add to their vocabularies each year to
build the 80,000-word vocabularies they need to be successful in college. On the other hand,
estimates based on the research of William Nagy indicate that if students read widely one hour per
day, five days per week, they'd learn at least 2,250 words per year-possibly much more (Stone &
Urquhart, 2008).
Bottom line: Vocabulary instruction is necessary, but not sufficient to acquire the word knowledge
and develop reading comprehension. Above all, our children require experiences to develop prior
knowledge.
READ! READ! READ!
All Kinds of Minds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaCJ_3hmrlc&feature=related
