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just as significantly on the FAST Reading assessment. “Since my daughter started writing with Mrs. Gaffey these past 2 years, her scores went from struggling to score grade level, to well into the 4’s and headed for the top score of 5, not only for Writing, but also for Reading, just about the same gain. And those scores have basically never moved noticeably before, no matter what we did,” mom Michelle said. “My older daughter joined Mrs. Gaffey this past year, and already my daughters are planning their Book Buddies with M&M video podcast, featuring the 15 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award winners that all students across the USA who use this national list will be reading in the coming year. Hopefully, based on M&M’s likes and dislikes! It really sparked their creativity, their thought processes, and they love creating together.” Book reviews use the argumentative style of writing, the most used format in journalism and commentary, and the most important writing style when hoping to change peoples’ minds. The informative style of writing becomes the base for marketing and public relations, to help people make up their minds to begin with. Students seeing their finished product, and having others see their works and comment on them favorably, is a huge part of why SHS is so effective academically, as well as emotionally and vocationally. All of the components work together to provide the grit and stamina required to move low learners higher, and enable high-scoring gifted students also to develop the grit needed to significantly cut failure rates for these special-education students from its current rate of 50 percent risk of failure, with more males than females ending up on the margins.
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just as significantly on the FAST Reading assessment. “Since my daughter started writing with Mrs. Gaffey these past 2 years, her scores went from struggling to score grade level, to well into the 4’s and headed for the top score of 5, not only for Writing, but also for Reading, just about the same gain. And those scores have basically never moved noticeably before, no matter what we did,” mom Michelle said. “My older daughter joined Mrs. Gaffey this past year, and already my daughters are planning their Book Buddies with M&M video podcast, featuring the 15 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award winners that all students across the USA who use this national list will be reading in the coming year. Hopefully, based on M&M’s likes and dislikes! It really sparked their creativity, their thought processes, and they love creating together.” Book reviews use the argumentative style of writing, the most used format in journalism and commentary, and the most important writing style when hoping to change peoples’ minds. The informative style of writing becomes the base for marketing and public relations, to help people make up their minds to begin with. Students seeing their finished product, and having others see their works and comment on them favorably, is a huge part of why SHS is so effective academically, as well as emotionally and vocationally. All of the components work together to provide the grit and stamina required to move low learners higher, and enable high-scoring gifted students also to develop the grit needed to significantly cut failure rates for these special-education students from its current rate of 50 percent risk of failure, with more males than females ending up on the margins.
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