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But then we already knew Sara was edgy…

We Teach We Learn (www.weteachwelearn.org) hosts a monthly blog carnival they call “The Edge of Education.”  We submitted Sara’s post Say what? Asking questions as one reads to the sponsors of the carnival, and they recently published the results, announcing that if they had an award, they’d call it an Edgy and declare Sara to be January’s winner!  [...]

Say what? Asking questions as one reads

By Sara Finegan Sam, a sixth-grader, didn’t like to read anything except picture books. His independent reading level was at the fourth grade for non-fiction (he loved science and nature text) and at the low third grade in fiction. The more I conferred with him about his reading, the more it became clear that Sam’s [...]

Inferences: “He’s wearing a jacket so it must be his birthday”

By Sara Finegan Students on the autism spectrum don’t tend to make inferences deliberately.  It’s not that they never make them; they just aren’t aware of it and it needs to be brought to their attention before we can teach them to transfer the skill from their own lives to the written word.  It’s important [...]

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