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Reading
Reading Fluency ILA Position
Reading specialists and response to intervention teachers will be pleasantly surprised that a whole new group of position papers published on International Literacy Association website upholds…
Should We Teach Reading Strategies?
With beginning and struggling readers, spend more time on the reading strategies, such as word identification, that are truly skill-builders and worthy of ample instructional time and…
Teacher Talk Top 60
Every profession has its share of cringeworthy and overused chatter: snarky comments, self-promoting babble, passive-aggressive suggestions, unwanted offers of support, gossipy grumblings, better-than-thou judgments, guilt-you-into observations,…
Reading Assessment | Don’t Test What You Can’t Teach
My advice regarding reading assessments? 1. Screen all readers with key assessments. 2. Administer the rest of the whole-class assessments to the struggling readers identified in…
RtI Reading Tests and Resources
Teachers buy-in to the value of assessment-based RtI reading tests when the assessments meet seven criteria. Get these FREE comprehensive assessments for site-level Response to Intervention teams…
ESL Reading Assessments
The best ESL resources are ones which are assessment-based, not program-based. Clearly, one-size-fits-all ESL resources would not work equally as well for divergent English-language learners. Catering…
Common Core Literalism
Some educators are taking the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in a wooden literal sense: not at all in the ways that the Common Core authors intended…
RtI Reading Assessments
Why should I have to give and grade all these normed tests when I already know which kids need help in their reading? The tests don't…