We work with students who are incredibly bright and have many interesting ideas to share, but are frustrated because their grades just don’t reflect their true capabilities. Sometimes, that comes down to underdeveloped executive functioning skills, which we like to...
We continue our adventure into less common board games to use with our students. Unfamiliar games are fun and motivating for them (and you)! Our second game is called Duplik. The photos from our Instagram post are of the first publishing of this game, which was called...
Many students struggle with contextual writing and the writing process as a whole. At Language & Learning, we use an acronym called UPOWER to help students tackle the writing process strategically. U: Use the Prompt Many students have trouble understanding and...
Board games go beyond Monopoly and Trouble. They span further than Hedbanz and Spot-it. They can be fun for both students and the adults in their lives, and they can help reinforce many of the skills we teach our students. In this series, we will be suggesting games...
Many of our students have trouble explaining information. Why is this? Is it because they do not understand what they are talking about? Not necessarily. To understand the “why,” we need to understand the context of what is expected from them. As students progress...
Writing may be particularly troublesome for students with language difficulties for a number of reasons, including its demands on spelling, sentence formulation, working memory, word retrieval, language organization, and linguistic executive functioning skills. At...
