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Lucy KosturkoMarch 1, 2019 0

Share the Love of Reading in March

March is full of celebrations of reading, particularly those that encourage us to share our love of reading with others. It's National Reading Month, kicking off with Dr. Seuss' birthday and NEA's Read Across America Day. At Curriculum Pathways, we're celebrating reading every day—developing literacy and early reading skills is

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoFebruary 28, 2019 0

Summer Teacher Institute 2019

APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 7, 2019, at 11:59 pm EST. We at Curriculum Pathways are excited to announce the fourth Teacher Institute (June 19-August 9)! The application is open and ready for your submission. The deadline for applications is April 7, 2019, at 11:59 pm EST. We always say "in-service teachers are our number-one source for

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonFebruary 11, 2019 0

The February Dilemma

As a high school English teacher, I faced a dilemma every February. Throughout the year, I assigned texts by African American writers, including Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. After all, their voices were central to any discussion of American literature. For Black History Month, however,

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Students & Educators

Molly FarrowMay 22, 2018 0

Never Underestimate the Humble Tool Tip

Active (close, engaged) reading involves analyzing the meaning and context of new content. According to ASCD, the goal of close reading is to uncover many layers of meaning. But first students must grasp the functional meaning of each word and reference in the text. Writing centers at George Mason and many other universities offer

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Students & Educators

Ralph MooreMarch 19, 2018 0

How free edtech can help connect distant families

A few years back my daughter and her husband announced that a great job would be taking them from the North Carolina of their birth to upstate New York. Now, if you know anything about the demographics of North Carolina over the past decade or more, you will identify this

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Students & Educators

Ralph MooreFebruary 16, 2018 0

Jump Start Your iPad 1:1 with 3 Free Apps

That exciting #edtech day is finally here! The new iPads are unboxed, charged, and configured. The only question left is where to begin? Of course the best answer involves ongoing professional development and a good school-wide education technology plan. And that's no secret. Well-planned and resourced professional development is the

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoFebruary 7, 2018 0

Share the Love of Reading with Read Aloud

We've updated Read Aloud, and there's a lot to be excited about. In particular, check out these new features: Sharing Read Aloud recreates the storytime experience even when we're apart. Do your grandchildren live across the country? Kids, is your parent deployed? Teachers, do you want voice recordings of your

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Students & Educators

Molly FarrowNovember 10, 2017 0

Expand the Vision: Cook up Some Primary-Source Analysis Activities with Sizzle

Hey NCSS 2017 attendees! Don't let STEM classes have all the fun. It is time to add some sizzle to the challenging critical thinking task outlined in the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Explore: Primary Sources offers a collection of over 250 FREE text and audio resources

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Students & Educators

Laura CroyleAugust 3, 2017 0

Engage Fake Readers: Provide the Power to Pick

Autonomy leads to engagement Research supports time-on-task as a proven strategy in developing reading skills. Studies show that students’ time spent engaged directly correlates to achievement levels. The more they are engaged, the more they learn. The key word is engaged. Simply allocating time to read during the school day

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoMarch 27, 2017 0

Coding in Your Elementary ELA Classroom

We recently had the pleasure of conducting a workshop at the North Carolina Reading Association Conference in Raleigh, NC. Following the release of our latest app, CodeSnaps, we demonstrated how to incorporate coding and robotics into K-5 ELA instruction. Reading teachers from across North Carolina attended the workshop and brought

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonFebruary 27, 2017 0

Using Jefferson to Model Argument Writing

I don’t need to make the case that providing students with models of good writing can be a powerful tool for improving their work. That’s why I want to feature in this Buried Treasures post the Argument Writing section from inContext, our massive network of terms, definitions, and activities that

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Students & Educators

Kerri WadsworthSeptember 1, 2016 0

Five Ways Reading Records Will Transform My Literacy Block!

As a PreK-5 reading specialist, I know the excitement and challenges a new school year will bring. Teachers are building relationships with students, setting up routines and procedures to create engaging literacy-rich environments that promote student choice and collaboration. During the first month, I'll be working to set up teacher and

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Students & Educators

Mimi StapletonJune 8, 2016 0

Engaging ELL Students with Authentic Experiences and Digital Resources

Language teachers often take advantage of authentic input to enhance learning output. The use of realia allows students to see and hear the target language used properly and in context, which heightens linguistic and cultural comprehension. Curriculum Pathways offers free resources that serve as authentic materials (#authres) for English Language

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Students & Educators

Molly FarrowMarch 29, 2016 0

Five Things the Redesigned SAT Got Right

While students who just took the SAT wait a few excruciating months for their scores, let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the College Board’s 2016 SAT changes. We believe some key logistical and pedagogical elements of the redesign are good for both students and teachers. Here’s why. First, let's

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Students & Educators

Staci LyonMarch 1, 2016 0

Putting Students on the Write Path

One of my goals a few years back was to become a blogger. I’m not a writer. I deal with numbers not words. So panic often set in when I started to write. But then I realized that—panic or not—I had to step out of my comfort zone if I wanted

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Students & Educators

Scott McQuigganDecember 29, 2015 0

SAS Curriculum Pathways Best of 2015

As 2015 comes to a close, let's look back on the great year at SAS Curriculum Pathways. Again, we saw record-breaking new users, soaring student usage, and tons of app downloads. While we love all of our 1,500+ resources, here are the ones that teachers and students used the most in

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Students & Educators

Scott McQuigganOctober 5, 2015 0

Three Apps to Ensure Your Student Never Gives Back the iPad

Mobile is at the forefront of our edtech development here at SAS Curriculum Pathways—not simply because it's the hottest emerging hardware technology entering classrooms around the world, but because of the exciting possibilities it brings to traditional learning environments. We’ve known for years that simply dropping off hardware in the classroom

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoSeptember 14, 2015 0

5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Storytime at Home

There is no shortage of research pointing to the importance of parental engagement in a child’s education. Proactive engagement in reading and math activities is especially important in the preschool years to prepare young students for kindergarten. It's no surprise the Office of Educational Technology recommends creating apps that encourage

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoMarch 23, 2015 0

Reading & Writing Tools for Your Chromebook

We've shared at length our resources for your iPad, but we're happy to announce our new Chromebook apps! Writing Navigator Writing Navigator is a suite of four tools, one for each step in the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, and publishing. Each tool offers numerous instructional features that help students create an effective

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Students & Educators

Tim McBrideJanuary 19, 2015 0

A Crime-Scene Cure for Reluctant Readers?

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is one of those rare books people describe as “impossible to put down” that really is (figuratively) impossible to put down. As an English teacher, I found a marked increase in student participation when I substituted Capote’s “nonfiction novel” for one of the canonical works in

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoJanuary 12, 2015 0

Elementary Spotlight: Reading

In and around 3rd grade, students make a significant transition: rather than learning to read, they begin reading to learn. That transition has classroom implications as well: instead of teaching students how to read, we instead expect them to use their (assumed) reading skills to acquire new information on their own (e.g., reading

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonJanuary 8, 2015 0

Teaching Poetry: It's a Slam Dunk

T.S. Eliot opens his poem The Waste Land by famously calling April the “cruellest month.” But for me, January has always offered up its own special form of cruelty. The holiday celebrations have come and gone, the days have frozen and withered into darkness, and the New Year is already

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoDecember 23, 2014 0

Best of 2014

As we wrap up 2014, we take a look back at a fabulous year here at Curriculum Pathways. This year brought record registrations, skyrocketing student usage, and continued creativity in resource/app integration. Of our 1,250+ (free!) resources, here are this year's most loved. Top 3 Resources 1. Algebra 1. Explore video and

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Students & Educators

Ralph MooreNovember 18, 2014 0

Online Professional Learning–At No Cost!

Keeping up with the pace of technology innovation–while simultaneously planning resource integration in an online, blended, or traditional classroom–is really more than a full-time job. So why not earn renewal credits while you do it? Through our online professional-development course offerings, participants learn how SAS® Curriculum Pathways® helps educators achieve academic goals

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoNovember 4, 2014 0

Reading Records: Integration Strategies

Available as a web and iOS app, and Chromebook app, Reading Records is the perfect complement to conducting running records of reading. The ability to record students as they read aloud, and the built-in tools for assigning, evaluating, and analyzing performance, add much needed efficiency to the running records process. Reading

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Students & Educators

Tim McBrideOctober 29, 2014 0

Expressive Synergy: Writing Reviser + Punctuation Rules!

Two of our most powerful interactive tools—Writing Reviser and Punctuation Rules!—become even more powerful when used in tandem. Indeed they are designed to be used that way. Both products use natural language processing, so they respond to each student’s own work, not generic examples in which the student has no investment.

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Lucy KosturkoOctober 8, 2014 0

Getting Started with Reading Records

Reading Records is your solution for conducting running records of reading. With its many time-saving features and tools for individualizing reading instruction, what are you waiting for? Get started today using these four simple steps. Get more information about creating your free Curriculum Pathways account. Have a suggestion for our next release?

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Students & Educators

Mimi StapletonJuly 2, 2014 0

ELL and Content-Based Instruction

Curriculum Pathways supports English Language Learner (ELL) instruction, which we consider to be one of today’s most important educational challenges. Imagine walking into a classroom where you are not only the new kid but the new kid who can’t understand what others are saying. Imagine being the teacher trying to

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Students & Educators

Scott McQuigganJanuary 23, 2014 0

National Reading Day

National Reading Day promotes a love of reading and a lifetime of learning. Encouraging a strong reading foundation is at the heart of this event, which focuses on pre-K through 3rd-grade students. At SAS, we are developing tools to help parents, teachers, and students build this foundation. Our first reading app,

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoJanuary 22, 2014 0

What does reading at grade level even mean? And why does it seem so important?

If you've been following the news lately, you may have heard a lot of debate about the academic profiles of college athletes. In a recent report published by CNN, Mary Willingham, a learning specialist at UNC, argued that from 2004 to 2012 a large number of athletes were reading far

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