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Season 4, Episode 15

How to motivate middle schoolers with Kamilah Simpson

In this episode, Susan Lambert is joined by Amplify senior product specialist Kamilah Simpson, a former Title 1 middle school intensive reading teacher and instructional coach. Kamilah offers tangible advice on allowing for productive struggle so that ¹ú²úÂ鶹¾çcan learn through discovery. She also discusses how to teach with complex text and rigor, learning to scaffold, the importance of listening to text, incorporating writing practice, and supporting ¹ú²úÂ鶹¾çwithout over-supporting. Finally, she stresses the importance of motivating middle school ¹ú²úÂ鶹¾çto read by providing texts that they can see themselves and their worlds in.

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