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Grammar & Mechanics
The Social Studies Squeeze: How It Hurts Civic Engagement and Reading Skills
If you’ve stepped into an elementary school classroom lately, you might have noticed something missing. No? Look closer. In between the shelves full of books and…
Syntax Stretchers
Reading and writing research have been consistently clear that syntactic manipulation, revision, sentence expansion, and sentence combining improve reading comprehension and increase writing dexterity and sophistication.…
UFLI Resources for Older Students
What instructional resources do teachers need to supplement UFLI for Older Students? Many intermediate and upper elementary, middle school, high school, and adult literacy teachers, who…
The Weekly Spelling Test
I often hear that the weekly spelling test is not supported by research. More explicitly, I hear that (or biweekly) spelling lists and tests with the…
FREE Diagnostic Literacy Assessments
Teachers love these FREE Diagnostic Literacy Assessments because, unlike random sample screeners or inventories, these diagnostic literacy assessments are comprehensive and teachable. For example, what good…
FREE Transition Worksheets
With these FREE transition worksheets, students will learn to identify these syntactic tools in challenging reading text and join ideas, establish relationships, create logical connections between…
Middle School Reading Intervention
If middle school students are non-readers or struggle with simple text, should we teach middle school reading intervention like we teach beginning readers? Can't I just…
Phonemic Awareness for Older Students
Phonemic awareness openers are key instructional components for older students in The Science of Reading Intervention Program. Of course, the trick is that in your reading…