Middle School Up Literacy academic director Anne Scott uses four separate videos published today to give parents some more background on how four of the lessons that are available on the website can be helpful to your child’s academic growth.
Anne, a recently retired ELA classroom teacher with three decades of experience, have used these lessons in her own middle school classrooms and also has marketed them nationally on a website accessed by other classroom teachers.
All the lessons individually are very inexpensive, and savings can be achieved if individual lessons are purchased in available bundles. The available lessons cover a full range of academic skills for struggling below-grade level students to ones with grade-level or even advanced academic skills.
These four lessons – and all of the available lessons as well – can help parents in two very important ways:
- Diagnostic:The lessons are structured so parents can really understand that if a student struggles to perform well on very targeted lessons that this would be a credible assessment of grade level deficiencies. It could provide a valuable starting point for academic remediation.
- Actual Instructional Progress: Lessons are also structured and packaged with support material to help parents evaluate the academic strengths on genuine grade-level assessments that could encourage additional lessons to help solidify and advance academic skills.
Here are the messages from the videos along with a direct link to the site where they are available.
Silly Words – A Strong Vocabulary Is Essential to Academic Success
These lessons are very practical and students enjoy the ‘light-hearted’ approach it uses to make the lessons entertaining beyond educational.
- Figuring out meaning from context clues may be the best skill and strategy possible for students….Context clues from surrounding sentences can help a student know the meaning of a word not previously understood. What the video for more insight. Here’s the direct link.
Capitalization – A Fundamental Skill That Needs Mastery
- A discouraging fact is that if a middle school student has not master the basic rules of capitalization, the chances for remediation at school are slim because those skills are not really taught going forward. Watch the video for more insight. Here’s the direct link.
Introduction to Greek Mythology – Why Shouldn’t Students Love to Read?
Over the years, this series of lessons have proved wildly popular among middle school students. Students who will take aggressive academic schedules in high school in pursuit of higher education will be particularly well-served by these courses that deal with great stories from Greek mythology. It’s both fun and academically valuable. Watch the video for more insight. Here’s the direct link.
Conjunctive Adverbs – From the Fun of Greek Mythology to the Hard Work of Mastering Higher Level Writing Skills.
Learning to write effectively at a higher level of skill that will be needed in advanced level courses in high school and in higher education is not the easiest thing to master. It takes practice. It requires an understanding of specific skills such as the correct use of conjunctive adverbs that are part of the process of becoming a more skilled, sophisticated writer. Watch the video for more insight. Here’s the direct link.
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contact@middleschoolupliteracy.com
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