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Grammar & Mechanics

Reading Assessments for Middle and High School
Yes, these assessments are free: Phonemic Awareness, Vowel Sounds Phonics, Consonant Sound Phonics, Heart Words, Rimes, Spelling, Fluency. All but the fluency assessment are designed for…

Printable and Digital Grammar Programs
The Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics programs provide plenty of remedial practice to help your students catch up while they keep up with rigorous grade-level standards.

Should Grades 4-8 Teachers Teach Spelling?
Should Grades 4-8 Teachers Teach Spelling? It depends. The real question is "Do your students (or some of your students) need to improve their spelling?" Included…

Distance Learning for Parents | Virtual Learning Advice
I know you didn't sign up for this. It's tough teaching at home; it's especially tough teaching your own kids at home. You don't have the…

Grammar Digital Programs
You can have it your way! With flexible, grammar curriculum for both in-class and digital (virtual learning) from Pennington Publishing.

Guided Reading and the Science of Reading
My take is that we don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some of guided reading is research-based and makes complete sense: the…

FREE GRADES 4-8 Vocabulary Resources and Lessons
Watch the short (less than a minute) YouTube videos to see the resources and lessons. Click on the link in the YouTube product description to safely…

Don’t Teach with Grammarly®
Don't teach with Grammarly® because it promotes incidental learning, limits assessment data, perpetuates the fallacy that writing is correct or incorrect, creates lazy and tech-reliant writers,…