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Mid-Year Reading Intervention Checklist
Fitting together all the puzzle pieces for an effective reading intervention program, grounded in both strands of Scarborough’s reading rope, can be challenging. A simple Reading…
Reading Rules versus Patterns?
Reading Rules versus Patterns? If you’re a child of the ‘60s… strike that. If you’re a human being other than a teacher, the word “rules” tends…
Reading Skills for ELA Teachers
I recently responded to this FB post from a middle school teacher inquiring about reading skills for ELA teachers and their students. I've been there and…
Canadian English Spelling Programs
Differentiated Spelling Instruction (the Canadian English Version) consists of separate grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 full-year spelling patterns programs. Each program in the…
Morphology | Greek and Latin Power Words
Rationale and Purpose Teachers and students are all about pragmatic tools. High utility and high frequency vocabulary words give them the most bang for the buck. Teachers…
Secondary Reading Intervention
If you were tasked with developing a secondary reading intervention program from "the ground up," where would you start and what resources would you consider using?…
Secondary Reading Assessments
How to place students in appropriate reading intervention instruction with secondary reading assessments? Teacher/counselor/parent/cumulative file recommendations and normed or even criterion referenced tests to narrow things…
A New Reading Fluency Assessment
Years ago, my favorite elementary principal tasked me, as a freshly-minted reading specialist, to design a new reading fluency assessment for our school. We had been…