Teaching with the ReadersBrain® — For Leadership
Are you feeling a little overwhelmed by the latest focus on evidence-based practices? Applying these new methods to reading is one thing. But what about new standards for evidence-based practices in assessment across ELA? Because the ReadersBrain® Method relies on science, it can help teachers work with these changes and also improve their students’ outcomes on writing.
The ReadersBrain® Method can boost student performance on both the Common Core State and College and Career Readiness standards by helping teachers to:
focus on what makes readers perceive writing as organized and cohesive
identify best practices for academic writing
tackle the demands of writing discipline-specific content
address career-based writing
rely on evidence-based practices in teaching writing.
Bolstering Student Performance
Creating Fidelity in Assessments
How on earth do you measure writing? For decades, teachers and even researchers have wrestled with writing assessment—and this challenge becomes even more difficult with standards that now demand assessment fidelity. As an evidence-based method, the ReadersBrain® enables schools and districts to meet these demands. Districts can use this method to:
evaluate the complexity of students’ writing
create fast and easy benchmarks for assessment
assess measurable changes to writing at the beginning and ending of school years
create reliable, repeatable standards in scoring student writing.
Easing Adult Learners’ Re-entry into College
As higher education enrollments drop, colleges and universities have turned their attention toward a new demand: adults learners with college credits but no degrees.
As colleges and universities focus on attracting these students, they require strategies to help revive and build reading and writing skills, ensuring student success in higher education. Your organization can bolster both reading levels and writing skills using the ReadersBrain® Method as part of a curriculum of core writing courses or in interleaved units across the curriculum. This approach produces durable gains in reading fluency and writing efficacy, while also providing much-needed continuity to the curriculum for mature students.
Writing Outcomes You Can See—and Measure
When schools use the ReadersBrain® Method, you can actually observe changes in students’ writing across a single semester in students from grades 2-12. With students in Adult and Higher Education, improvements are even more dramatic. See the results of the ReadersBrain® Method for yourself.
Grade 3 Student: Before and After
