Category: Achievement Gap

The achievement gap is the difference in the performance of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds and students from high-socioeconomic backgrounds on standardized tests.

Playlist: Increasing Language Skills for Children from Low Income Backgrounds

Leaders Project

This is the entire playlist of 7 videos included in this series. Topics covered range from parent training strategies to tools that can be used in the classroom to increase learning for children from low income backgrounds.

The Achievement Gap: Increasing Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 1) 

Importance of Parent Training in Early Literacy: Increasing Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 2) 

Strategies to Support Emergent Literacy: Increasing Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 3) 

Increasing Literacy in Adolescents: Increasing Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 4) 

Optimizing the Learning Environment: Increasing Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 5) 

Contextualize Language for Learning: Increasing Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 6) 

Increasing Executive Functioning: Increasing Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds: (Part 7) 

Contextualize Language for Learning: Increasing the Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 6)

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Sometimes the language skills our children from low income backgrounds bring don’t always match the language information load of the classroom. We can increase contextualization in the classroom to support learning through a variety of strategies such as hands on learning, group tasks and reciprocal learning as well as opportunities for individual exploration. Strategies that can be used outside the classroom are also provided. Find the other modules in this series below: Read More

Increasing Literacy in Adolescents: Increasing the Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 4)

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Students from low income backgrounds are especially vulnerable to falling behind their literacy development as they become adolescents and move into the upper grades. As vocabulary and content increases in complexity, students without adequate foundational skills begin to experience more struggle and frustration with grade level material. It can be particularly difficult to motivate adolescent students, so Stephanie reminds us to be sympathetic to the challenges our students face and provides strategies to motivate and support adolescent readers. Find the rest of the modules from this series below: Read More

Strategies to Support Emergent Literacy: Increasing the Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 3)

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Children from low income backgrounds can be at risk for difficulty with both print awareness and phonological awareness, the foundations of emergent literacy. Intervention consisting of explicit instruction in phonological awareness just two times a week for half an hour demonstrated effectiveness. Stephanie provides strategies that providers and parents alike can use with children from low income background to support emergent literacy. Find the other modules in this series below: Read More

Importance of Parent Training in Early Literacy: Increasing the Language Skills of Children from Low Income Backgrounds (Part 2)

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Encouraging early literacy starts young, much earlier than a child’s first day of kindergarten. While it’s wonderful to ensure homes have books in them, Stephanie discusses the importance of educating parents so that they know how to support their child’s literacy development before they enter school. She provides strategies beyond handing out books that schools and parents can use to increase the language and literacy development of current and future students. Find the other modules in this series below: Read More

Reading Development Module (Playlist)

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This playlist of 8 modules presents information on typical reading developent, including information specifically for English Language Learner (ELL) and speech and language impaired (SLI) populations. Several issues surrounding literacy, including the role of the SLP in literacy, are examined. Finally, a vareity of intervention activities are demonstrated. See below for individual modules. Read More