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Articles by Karen Weil
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Preventing Summer Setback
May 30, 2010 by Karen Weil
Many of us have fond memories of summer vacation. Others look forward to it each spring. Those of us who teach see the wiggles on the rise -- and the homework on the decline -- as tests fade into the...
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College Bound: Boosting Your SAT Vocabulary
September 11, 2009 by Karen Weil
Research shows that we learn new vocabulary words in stages: At the first stage, we don't remember ever having heard a particular word before. At the final stage, we can use the word fluently ourselves...
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Becoming an 'Afishal Auther' : Helping Young Children See Themselves as Writers
August 28, 2009 by Karen Weil
I often have my students write an 'about the author' sheet to accompany their stories. I will always remember the bio composed by a particular seven-year-old: She wrote that she had been writing since...
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A Twice Sold Tale Does Not Grow Stale: Finding Bargain Teaching Materials
August 23, 2009 by Karen Weil
Children are more motivated to read when they have books on topics that interest them; multisensory activities are also useful for egaging the interest of young kids. But how does one find teaching supplies...
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Seeing What's Really There
August 18, 2009 by Karen Weil
Tennis shoes clapping against asphalt. Voices chanting, "Cinderella, dressed in yellow..." Any rope-skipper who made it as far as "kissed a fellow" or even the word "yellow" was out of my league...
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First Steps into Literacy: How much, how soon?
August 11, 2009 by Karen Weil
When I was seven, I decided to give my preschool-aged cousin a leg up in the education world: I was going to teach him to read. Chad was content to sit with me for a few minutes, and then he decided he...
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Adventures in Portable Teaching: Crossing Cultural Bridges
August 03, 2009 by Karen Weil
"Say bismalah," six-year-old Adilah instucted as she handed me a glass of water. "Put your hand on your head." Her mother admonished softly in Urdu: No, no, she told the child, Those blessings...
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