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8 Keys to Classroom Management
The following 10 keys to classroom management are designed for teachers who want to help their students "catch up," while they "keep up" with grade-level instruction…
Assessment-Based Instruction
This article provides the rationale for Assessment-Based Instruction (ABI): a commitment to students to help them catch up, while they keep up with grade-level instruction.
10 Reasons Differentiated Instruction Died
Teachers never adopted differentiated instruction, individualized instruction, nor personalized instruction in their classrooms. Here's why and what can be done instead: Assessment-Based Instruction.
Vocabulary Scope and Sequence
Defining a specific year-to-year instructional scope and sequence for vocabulary with colleagues provides a game plan and also defines the content for assessment. It makes sense…
Drill and Kill Worksheets
Although deliberate practice is not solely reserved for worksheets, it would certainly seem that targeted, independent worksheets can certainly provide deliberate practice that involves "attention, rehearsal,…
Student-Centered Reading Intervention
Starting at the instructional needs of below grade level readers and establishing instructional priorities should determine the essentials of any reading intervention program. In other words,…
Schoolwide Independent Reading Program
As an MA reading specialist, author, and frequent blogger on independent reading, I am constantly receiving posts and emails regarding the Accelerated Reading™ program. I frequently joke…
High Fluency Low Reading Comprehension
Quite often I get emails from both parents and teachers regarding what to do for children with high fluency, but low reading comprehension. What can we,…