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The following materials were created to support teachers who are preparing to rollout Edmodo in their classroom. The content below includes materials created by the Edmodo team as well as a selection of content created by educators and shared in the Edmodo communities.

Keep reading until page 2--teachers start recognizing students' problems comprehending basic conjunctions and inability to communicate in complex sentences. Much of their progress seems to come from explicitly helping students write more complex sentences. "For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School's dismal performance-not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with closure, the school's principal went all-in on a very specific curriculum reform, placing an overwhelming focus on teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class."

This is really interesting! I have been reading similar suggestions in Burke, Gallagher, and others that, while not as prescriptive, certainly endorse explicit modeling of sentence types and offering sentence stems for student practice.