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Do you have questions about Language Enrichment in your classroom and wish you could connect with ideas from other teachers? A special forum has been set up just for you! Connect with other teachers, share ideas and concerns and post topics for discussion. We elevate the profession of teaching when we talk to each other!

This rich information on screening, intervention, and organization for monitoring student progress can be used by teachers in the classroom, leaders of Professional Learning Communities, or administrators supporting their staff with RTI. Click the link to our “tools” menu and find:

RTI-pdfs for Teachers and Administrators

Courtesy of Mary Dalgren, Ph. D., who conducted a two-day intensive workshop at Neuhaus Education Center, we have slides ready to help with an RTI presentation in your next staff development. Find and download this brief history of RTI in Instructional Resources/Tools.

Since oral language is imperative for rich comprehension, it is important to include oral language and listening comprehension in your reading lessons every day.  The wonderful oral language/listening comprehension lessons we teach at Neuhaus can be used with authentic literature.  View this LessoNet which is a model for teachers and can also be used as a lesson for students. This lessoNet was taken with permission from a lesson plan designed by a prospective teacher from Texas A&M University!

Mary Dahlgren, Ed.D. gave a straightforward, practical, and easy to follow workshop to make Response to Intervention a process that will really result in student academic growth.  The two-day workshop here at Neuhaus was attended by 60 teachers and administrators, and two panels of representatives from public and private schools who discussed their successes and challenges with the group.  If you couldn’t come, we’d like to share it with you! The first of a series of articles is Assessment, found in articles below, and soon to follow will be some of the practical tools that Mary has offered to share with us.

It’s time for gardening! The vibrant reds, pinks and purples of phlox can really light up a garden after a dreary winter. The word “phlox” is actually the Greek word for:

67% said “flame”

17% said “candle”

8% said “lamp”

8% said “light”

Phlox blooms rise from their stalks like fiery flames, and are aptly called this Greek word meaning “flame.”

Check out a new webinar which reviews parts of speech using connected text. Teachers can use it as a model, and/or students as a lesson.

Two new games created by Play2Read are now on sale on RTN.  Caesar Pleaser and Socrateaser will help students boost spelling, vocabulary, and reading by reinforcing the Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes so prevalent in English written language.  In  RTN Market, click on Manuals and Materials, and then Accessories to order one or both games.

Use the magic of morphemes to figure out the meaning of the word “ingurgitation”:

* a disturbance

* the guzzling of food

* a swirling (as in a liquid)

* digestion

0% said a disturbance

60% said the guzzling of food

10% said a swirling (as in liquid)

30% said digestion

To ingurgitate is to eat or drink greedily or guzzle. The morphemes are in, which means in or toward; gurgit , which does mean flood or swirling; ate, meaning cause or make; and tion the suffix meaning act of- or state- of- which turns the verb into a noun.