Building ELA Skills for Every Student: Designing for Learner Variability in Middle School (Part 1)

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of designing educational approaches for diverse learners in middle school to enhance their literacy skills.

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Digital Promise. The webinar recording can be accessed here. The middle school years are critical for developing the literacy skills students will use for the rest of their lives. For some learners, the challenge isn’t just decoding words but negotiating the intense cognitive demand of managing new vocabulary and constructing meaning. By designing for learner variability—considering a whole-child framework of factors that includes learner background, social ...

Topics covered

• ELA skills
• learner variability
• middle school education
• literacy development
• cognitive demand

Keywords

• ELA
• literacy skills
• middle school
• learner variability
• cognitive demand
• vocabulary
• whole-child framework

Sponsors

Digital Promise

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