Netflix Bookmarks Brings Diversity: Open Your Classroom

Netflix Bookmarks Brings Diversity: Open Your Classroom This blog post is not sponsored. A bookmark is defined as material to mark one’s place in a book according to the Oxford Dictionary. The television show on Netflix entitled; “Bookmarks Celebrating Black Voices” first aired a few years ago. It is definitely a show you should bookmark …

Stop The Confusion: A Close Or Cloze Mindset

Stop The Confusion: A Close and Cloze Mindset What is Close Reading and Cloze Reading? They are two strategies that require the reader to make sense of the text. These kinds of reading strategies build comprehension, vocabulary development, and fluency. Do you remember Mad Libs? Mad Libs were learning games. You had to filled in a word that had been …