Educação Bilíngue no Brasil

As cantigas infantis fazem parte do patrimônio cultural da infância e devem fazer parte da história de todas as crianças. E aprender cantigas e parlendas em uma segunda língua pode trazer uma série de benefícios para as crianças: Amplia o vocabulário Ensina e desenvolve a pronúncia Auxilia na consciência fonológica Dá acesso a elementos culturais […]

Hank Zipzer Authors Share Dyslexia Insight While you’re looking for ways to make learning fun for dyslexic children, consider the children’s book seriesHank Zipzer: The World’s Greatest Underachiever. The books are co-written by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, who target their writing toward learning-challenged children. Gemm Learning spot-lighted Hank Zipzer in Part 3 of our “Great Books […]

Last month, I had the opportunity to attend Rick Riordan’s lecture as a keynote speaker in the International Reading Association Conference in San Antonio. The speech was inspiring and made me feel proud of being a reading teacher. For this reason, I would like to share his discource which he posted in his blog to […]

Finland’s education expert Pasi Sahlberg Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling“Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” In this piece he writes about whether the emphasis that American school reformers put on “teacher effectiveness” is really the best approach […]

Reading and Writing Workshop e Educação Inclusiva This is another inspiring article and research about how Nancy, a classroom teacher,  connected reading and writing to teach students with learning disabilities how to express their voice  using the workshop model. I really enjoyed reading the “conference”, the conversation that nudge the students to  between Nancy and […]

O que é “top teaching” nas salas de aula? If you are looking for new ways to teach your students, check out this Scholastic’s website to see what other teachers are doing in their classroom, especially Beth Newingham’s and Julie Ballew’s blog. You will find great reading and writing workshop ideas.

Becoming a Reader and a Writer in a Bilingual Special Classroom This is an inspiring research article about how a well implemented Reading and Writing Workshop model modified to special bilingual students close the achievement gap in reading and writing. Besides that, how the  power of team work between the general and bilingual special education […]

Em um momento quando a globalização e o contato entre pessoas de várias origens exige conhecimento de línguas… Enquanto muitos países se preocupam em ensinar Inglês como língua franca, e investem pesadamente em educação… Enquanto os universitários brasileiros não conseguem aproveitar uma das milhares de bolsas de estudo no exterior oferecidas pela Capes… Quando o […]

When I found this article about Balanced Literacy, I decided to share this incrediable teaching method that helps any type of child. That’s what I truly believe and I wish that schools in Brazil,  especially public schools,  would adopt this method  in order to help our kids become better readers and writers. Besides that, we […]

Compartilho a matéria da Revista Educação no. 174 sobre a presença de crianças imigrantes em nossas escolas e convido os leitores do EBB a pensar em ações de acolhimento e diferenciação no ensino destes alunos, considerando suas línguas culturas e condições de vida.  A chegada dos imigrantes Originalmente disponível em http://revistaeducacao.uol.com.br/textos/174/a-chegada-dos-imigrantes-236337-1.asp Adaptação de alunos estrangeiros ao […]