GrapeSEED English for Children
Jodie Shell is a dedicated education professional with extensive experience in early childhood education. Currently serving as a Professional Learning Specialist at GrapeSEED English for Children since July 2013, Jodie Shell focuses on training, coaching, and supporting educators both in the United States and internationally. Prior to this role, Jodie Shell worked as a Lead Kindergarten Teacher at Clintondale Community Schools from August 2000 to June 2013, contributing to the success of a Nationally Recognized Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Jodie Shell's teaching career began at Detroit Public Schools, where from August 1993 to June 2000, Jodie Shell taught at Anna M. Joyce Elementary School, another Nationally Recognized Blue Ribbon School. Jodie Shell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master's in Education from Wayne State University, along with an early childhood endorsement.
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GrapeSEED English for Children
GrapeSEED is a fun, engaging English oral language acquisition curriculum that provides a bridge to reading and writing! We are a company that is passionate about transforming children’s and teachers’ lives by empowering them with excellent English oral language instruction and skills. What We Do: We focus on developing all oral language acquisition modalities including receptive, productive and interactive.1 We provide a curriculum that is fun and engaging for students, which is much more conducive to learning because it provides a relaxed learning environment and allows students to have a lower affective filter. We focus on developing vocabulary within expressions that are needed for effective communication. We teach writing skills, including letter and word formation and simple sentence construction. We teach introductory reading skills including decoding and word attack skills as well as basic reading fluency and monitoring for sense-making with GrapeSEED controlled vocabulary. We believe that for students to become successful readers and writers, they must first build a strong foundation in decoding and fluency (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998) as well as develop a comprehensive English vocabulary (Sidek & Rahim, 2015; Anjomshoa & Zamanian, 2014; Anderson & Freebody, 1991; Nagy, Anderson, & Herman, 1987.) It is these skills upon which the GrapeSEED reading and writing curriculum focuses.