Comprehension and Students with Disabilities Classrooms have students with various types of learners which (Special Education and General Education) teachers have to provide a responsbility for reading comprehension. Within the student population, it cab include learning disabilities (Boardman), which with reading comprehension is a severe concern (Sencibaugh). Reading assessments as early as Kindergarten or First […]

“Collateral beauty-1. the ability to see the brilliance in even the most devastating situation; 2.digging to the depths of your soul to find the passion that lives and breathes within; 3. that beauty that can only be found when you truly connect with the world around you; 4. letting go of all known realities to […]

  It was the evening of his wake. He always loved photographs. But then again, who doesn’t. It captures an exact moment in someone’s life. Memories. The room was filled with memories, with pictures. Pictures of our vacations, holidays and pictures he had taken of his favorite places. Everywhere I went I was surrounded by […]

Dan walked up the stairs. Exhausted from a long night at work. He remembered he needed to make breakfast for Izzy and needed to walk her to school, because he had the show tell activity. “I need to review the questions for the FDNY test on Saturday,” Dan said to himself as he was putting […]

Teacher’s speaking, talking to the class But I can only hear the Tick Tock of the clock Time is still, it can’t be moving I feel like a prisoner in my chair I want to move I want to jump, why do I need to learn these things?  I Think Somethings Wrong! Study for the test […]

What’s wrong with me?  I’m looking at the words, sounding them out, reading them aloud, so how come I don’t remember anything?  Reading never seemed to come easy for me.  I always struggled, and never saw the value.  My childhood best friend was one of the brightest kids in our grade. In first grade, she […]

Twenty years ago, I had a thrid grade Teacher Mrs. Mason at Highview Elementary School.  She was much taller than me at the time, an African American women, black short hair, with frekles on her cheeks. I remember sitting at a desk, which they were all shaped in an “U”. We had so much fun […]

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