An excellent and nuanced article by Sarah Schwartz. edweek.org/teaching-learn…

A 🧵 on explicit instruction, in light of the NSW announcement. 1: I would have not only told you I was teaching explicitly in my first years of teaching, but been highly offended if you had suggested I wasn’t. Spoiler alert: I was giving one explicit instruction 1/

Our Astronomy unit is well underway in Year 4/5! Embedded sentence tasks for the week: ✅ Combining sentences using appositives ✅ Completing sentence stems with subordinating conjunctions