Summer is almost here and most of you are busy grading tests and finishing the school year. This is the perfect time to send students home with some fun review activities to prepare for the fall. It’s also time to plan for your new class.
In this issue, you’ll learn how you can help children reach their potential with Response to Intervention techniques. At the heart of RtI is a commitment to a strong core handwriting curriculum to help all children learn to write well. You’ll also find strategies for integrating handwriting with other lessons so that handwriting lesson skills carry over to all writing tasks.
In this time of fiscal cuts in education budgets, we remain committed to providing consistent and cost-effective resources to help you meet students’ needs and stay on track with your program. So look for new teaching approaches in this newsletter that you can use in the classroom or send home with your students. I also invite you to visit our website for more free downloads and activities.
Enjoy this issue of the Frog Jump Gazette and have a safe and happy summer!
Schools See Success with RtI and Handwriting By Katrina Erikson, OTR/L Thanks to a dramatic shift in thinking, the days of “wait and fail” in early education are ending. Response to Intervention (RtI) is reshaping classroom learning and providing a model for helping all students.
Want to Boost Test Scores? Keep Writing! By Emily Knapton, OTR/L These days, we expect more and more from students. So why aren’t test scores keeping up?
