Program 011

Monty and Martine
introduce this show's theme:
Empowered Learning

Chip Smith, the Woodworking Teacher at The Carroll School in Lincoln, Massachusetts, discusses his method for getting children focused on safety and learning.

Read more about The Carroll School at www.carrollschool.org.

Language Tutor Andrea Marks and Carroll School Student Annie demonstrate strategies of the Orton-Gillingham approach to teaching children with language-based learning differences.

Find out more about the Orton-Gillingham approach at www.ortonacademy.org.

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Fourth-Grade Teachers Joan Walker and Joan Snell describe empowering children's vocabulary development in ways that generate excitement.

Drama Teacher Shea Schatell talks about focusing children's attention and Music Teacher Bruce Pasha discusses the relevance of performing arts to language-related challenges.

Laurie Joy Haas, Executive Producer of Words that Cook!™ and co-author of Read it Aloud! A parent's guide to sharing books with young children, explores playful language with Judy “Mama Bear” Reilly and Chip the Cookie-Bookie Bear.

Visit www.judithreilly.com.

In her Language class, Fourth-Grade Teacher Judy Ball employs classroom exercises that lead to improvements in students' writing.

Monty and Martine recap our
Recipes for Success
and introduce this show's
Recommended Book List.

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