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FREE Phonics Assessments

FREE RtI Phonics Assessments

FREE Phonics Assessments

My free vowel sounds https://blog.penningtonpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Vowel-Sounds-Phonics-Assessment.pdf

and consonant blends https://blog.penningtonpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Consonant-Sounds-Phonics-Assessment.pdf phonics assessments are comprehensive (not random samples, for example all 6 most common long e sounds-spellings are assessed as separate test items), nonsense syllables/words (to exclude sight word knowledge), and teachable (corresponds to most phonics programs, including Open Court and my own. The 52 vowel and 50 consonant blend test items correspond to most instructional sound-spelling cards). Includes both teacher and student test versions.

Plus, get the audio files (10:42 and 12:07), which include the admin instructions, and recording matrix. I developed this test with the input of dozens of fellow reading specialists years ago in a large Northern California district. We field-tested and revised over the years to ensure reliability. These are assessments that produce teachable data… not assessments that merely indicate “problem areas” for students. In 23 minutes, you will have all the needed data to screen for RtI placement and teach.

Why do I offer these quality assessments as freebies? I know they’ll help your students. Plus, I know you’ll check out my reading intervention program 🙂

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Intervention Program Science of Reading

The Science of Reading Intervention Program

The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Word Recognition includes explicit, scripted instruction and practice with the 5 Daily Google Slide Activities every reading intervention student needs: 1. Phonemic Awareness and Morphology 2. Blending, Segmenting, and Spelling 3. Sounds and Spellings (including handwriting) 4. Heart Words Practice 5. Sam and Friends Phonics Books (decodables). Plus, digital and printable sound wall cards and speech articulation songs. Print versions are available for all activities. First Half of the Year Program (55 minutes-per-day, 18 weeks)

The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Language Comprehension resources are designed for students who have completed the word recognition program or have demonstrated basic mastery of the alphabetic code and can read with some degree of fluency. The program features the 5 Weekly Language Comprehension Activities: 1. Background Knowledge Mentor Texts 2. Academic Language, Greek and Latin Morphology, Figures of Speech, Connotations, Multiple Meaning Words 3. Syntax in Reading 4. Reading Comprehension Strategies 5. Literacy Knowledge (Narrative and Expository). Second Half of the Year Program (30 minutes-per-day, 18 weeks)

The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Assessment-based Instruction provides diagnostically-based “second chance” instructional resources. The program includes 13 comprehensive assessments and matching instructional resources to fill in the yet-to-be-mastered gaps in phonemic awareness, alphabetic awareness, phonics, fluency (with YouTube modeled readings), Heart Words and Phonics Games, spelling patterns, grammar, usage, and mechanics, syllabication and morphology, executive function shills. Second Half of the Year Program (25 minutes-per-day, 18 weeks)

The Science of Reading Intervention Program BUNDLE  includes all 3 program components for the comprehensive, state-of-the-art (and science) grades 4-adult full-year program. Scripted, easy-to-teach, no prep, no need for time-consuming (albeit valuable) LETRS training or O-G certification… Learn as you teach and get results NOW for your students. Print to speech with plenty of speech to print instructional components.

The print copies of the Animal Fluency Articles include challenge words in the upper right corner for the teacher to pre-teach. Word counts are provided in the left margin for fluency timings. The YouTube videos of each article include a picture of the animal and a modeled reading, but do not include the challenge words or word counts.

Additionally, the Animal Fluency Articles are available as YouTube videos for individualized fluency instruction. Each article has been recorded at three different reading speeds (Level A at 95-115 words per minute; Level B at 115-135 words per minute; and Level C at 135-155 words per minute) to provide modeled readings at each of your students’ challenge levels. A total of 129 videos!

Get the Pets Fluency Assessment FREE Resource:

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Grammar in the Writing Context

Teachers know the power of connected learning. When one strand of rope is twisted with another (or several), the rope is less likely to break.

Now some things need to be taught in isolation, but when teachers take the time to show students the connections to other learning, students grasp the big picture and are more likely to retain the information. This finding has been integral to learning theory for years. Indeed, association and linking are powerful memory tools.

With this educational assumption, let’s take a look at one specific educational maxim: Grammar must be taught in the writing context.  

For most teachers, taught usually implies introduce. In other words, to have shared some new content, concept, or skill (or standard) that students had not yet learned. This presents problems for developing student writers, because teachers have been taught that grammar should only be taught in the writing context. This chiefly means that grammar has not be taught at all. The pipe dream of some is that targeted mini-lessons, say one on commas or pronoun antecedents, will be used in the editing stage of the writing process for those students who need them. It just does not get done on a regular basis and the students do not get enough practice to master these skills.

The mini-lesson only approach is akin to assigning your own child the task of building an outdoor play structure (think writing process assignment) in which you provide excellent directions, but hand over the toolbox without prior instruction.

The directions begin with the following: “Use only a ball peen hammer to nail and countersink all 16 penny galvanized.”

One the student has completed building the structure (the draft or revised draft), the teacher determines that the entire class needs a mini-lesson to address the obvious construction short-comings. How inefficient and frustrating.

Clearly, it makes so much more sense to teach every component of the directions before using or mis-using the tools. How you teach (connect to prior learning, identity, define terminology, provide examples, use mentor modeling, provide guided practice, independent practice with feedback, give formative assessment, and remediate with individualized practice) matters. Obviously, each of these steps would be critically important in teaching this direction.

If you would agree that this instructional approach would also make sense with grammar instruction, let me attempt to convince you of one other key instructional point.

Students who did not demonstrate mastery in their first or revised attempts (think first or revised writing drafts) must be re-taught. Yes, mini-lessons in this context would make sense. But, in terms of writing feedback…

Wouldn’t it make sense to use the same language of instruction in both teaching and writing feedbackThat would be powerful, memorable instruction: truly teaching grammar in the writing context.

Grammar in the Writing Context

Writing Context

You can do this with the author’s e-Comments Chrome Extension. This app includes hundreds of canned writing comments with the same language of instruction as the author’s Teaching Grammar and Mechanics and the companion program, TEACHING ESSAYS BUNDLE. Use the same terminology and definitions in your teaching and annotations in Google docs (and slides) comments. Now, that’s a seamless connection to teach and practice grammar and mechanics in the writing context!

Save time grading and provide better writing feedback!

The e-Comments program includes four insertable comment banks (Grades 3‒6, Grades 6‒9, Grades 9‒12, and College/Workplace) feature writing format and citations, essay and story structure, essay and story content analysis, sentence formation and writing style, word choice, grammar, and mechanics.

When you open a student’s doc or slide, the e-Comments menu pops-up in the right margin. Simply highlight a writing issue in the student’s text and click on a comment button. The comment automatically appears in the margin next to the student’s text.

FAQs:

  • Would all my students need this program? No, just the teacher. The e-Comments program syncs to multiple devices and saves to the cloud.
  • Can I edit these e-comments? Yes, they are customizable.
  • Can I add, format, and save my own custom writing comments to the e-Comment menu? Yes.
  • Can I record audio comments? Yes.
  • Can I record video comments? Yes, just make sure your hair isn’t out of place.
  • Can I use speech to text? Yes, save time typing personalized comment additions.

I’m not tech proficient. Is e-Comments easy to use? Yes. The one-page Quick Start User Guide and video tutorial will get you grading or editing in just minutes. No time-consuming and complicated multiple clicks, dropdown menus, or comment codes. This program is intuitive and user-friendly.

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Syntax Programs

Pennington Publishing Grammar Programs

Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics (Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and High School) are full-year, traditional, grade-level grammar, usage, and mechanics programs with plenty of remedial practice to help students catch up while they keep up with grade-level standards. Twice-per-week, 30-minute, no prep lessons in print or interactive Google slides with a fun secret agent theme. Simple sentence diagrams, mentor texts, video lessons, sentence dictations. Plenty of practice in the writing context. Includes biweekly tests and a final exam.

Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Interactive Notebook (Grades 4‒8) is a full-year, no prep interactive notebook without all the mess. Twice-per-week, 30-minute, no prep grammar, usage, and mechanics lessons, formatted in Cornell Notes with cartoon response, writing application, 3D graphic organizers (easy cut and paste foldables), and great resource links. No need to create a teacher INB for student make-up work—it’s done for you! Plus, get remedial worksheets, biweekly tests, and a final exam.

Syntax in Reading and Writing is a function-based, sentence level syntax program, designed to build reading comprehension and increase writing sophistication. The 18 parts of speech, phrases, and clauses lessons are each leveled from basic (elementary) to advanced (middle and high school) and feature 5 lesson components (10–15 minutes each): 1. Learn It!  2. Identify It!  3. Explain It! (analysis of challenging sentences) 4. Revise It! (kernel sentences, sentence expansion, syntactic manipulation) 5. Create It! (Short writing application with the syntactic focus in different genre).

Get the Diagnostic Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Assessments, Matrix, and Final Exam FREE Resource:

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Preview Grade 4 Comprehensive Vocabulary Preview Grade 5 Comprehensive Vocabulary Preview Grade 6 Comprehensive Vocabulary Preview Grade 7 Comprehensive Vocabulary Preview Grade 8 Comprehensive Vocabulary

Quicky

Morphology List

Greek and Latin Morphology

Word Recognition Preview

Language Comprehension Program

Privacy Policy

Syntax in Reading and Writing Preview

VPAT and WCAG 2.0 Report

ABI13

Preview RFCT

ABI Preview

ABI Preview

TSORIPLC PREVIEW

Syntax in Reading and Writing Preview

Syntax in Reading and Writing Preview

Syntax in Reading and Writing Preview

Syntax in Reading Parts of Speech Lessons

TRS11 SCRIP Bookmarks

CCSS L.4,5,6 Grades 4-8 Vocabulary Scope and Sequence

Grade 6 Language Standards Curriculum Map

GMSV Grades 4-8 Instructional Scope and Sequence

TRS6Sound Walls

Sound Wall Animal Cards

FREE Lessons

r-Controlled Vowels

Word Part Monsters

Monsters5

Teacher Manual Order of Digraph Inclusion Club A and BHeart Words

Instructional Scope and Sequence

Syllable Blending and Worksheets

Consonant Sounds Phonics Assessment

Vowel Sounds Phonics Assessment

Nonsense Word Phonics Assessments

Schwa Reading and Spelling Practice

Preview Grade 8

Preview Grade 7

Preview Grade 6

Grade 4 Canadian PreviewDifferentiated Spelling Instruction the Canadian Version Grade 4

Asher

Preview of TEACHING ESSAYS BUNDLEPreview Grade 5

Preview of Eight Writing Process Essays

Preview of Essay Skills Worksheets

Word Part Monsters

How to Teach Essays Preview

Reading Comprehension Strategies

FREE Diagnostic Spelling Assessment

Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics

Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics High School

Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics

Diagnostic Spelling Assessment Mastery Matrix

Diagnostic Spelling Assessment

Grade 4 Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Preview Grade 5 Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Preview Grade 6 Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Preview Grade 7 Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Preview Grade 8 Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Preview High School Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Preview Parts of Speech Unit Preview

Interactive Notebook Preview

Instructional Scope and Sequence with CCSS Alignment

4DSI5

AdjectivesParts of Speech WorksheetsF

AdverbsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

CommonNounsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

Coordinating ConjunctionsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

Coorelative ConjunctionsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

PrepositionsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

PronounsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

Proper NounsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

Subordinating ConjunctionsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

VerbsParts of Speech WorksheetsF

Common NounsA

AdjectivesA (1)

https://dochub.com/markpennington0/zoyBZvZ/adjectives-pdf?dt=8Gzod6cs2Eq_99exXCin

Adjectives.pdf _ DocHub

GUM Only Fillable1

Word Making

Grade-4-Vocabulary-Worksheets Grade-5-Vocabulary-Worksheets Grade-6-Vocabulary-Worksheets Grade-7-Vocabulary-Worksheets Grade-8-Vocabulary-Worksheets

DLAcademicWordLists

DLAcademicWordLists

Eight Conventional Spelling Rules with Examples and Songs

Grades 4-8 Spelling Sequence of Instruction

https://bit.ly/2Go5EI3

Instructional Programs

Quick Start User Guide

Quick Start User Guide 1

SamandFriendsGuidedReadingPhonicsBookswithRunningRecords3FreeAlarm Clock Revised

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