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Reading
Moneyball and Reading Intervention
Bobby does not have the same instructional needs as does Marta. We can't use cookie cutter approaches to reading intervention if we want to make the…
Backwards Reading Intervention
How strange that a student-centered approach to learning, as advocated by many teachers and authors, does not extend to a student-centered approach to instruction. To cut…
Morphological Awareness with Greek and Latin
The bulk of Vocabulary Standards are now included in the Language Strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Greek and Latin affixes (prefixes and suffixes)…
Common Core Instructional Minutes
How much to teach, not what to teach or how to teach are the questions keeping English-language arts teachers up at night. How much to teach…
Academic Language Words
Yes, the Common Core authors view literacy development as a mutual responsibility of all educational stakeholders. Yes, history, science, and technology teachers need to teach domain-specific…
How to Teach the Common Core Vocabulary Standards
What most teachers notice after careful reading of the Common Core Vocabulary Standards is the expected breadth, complexity, and depth of instruction across the grade levels.…
Common Core Curricular Crossover
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) produces some interesting curricular crossover. The traditional English-language arts divisions of reading, writing, listening, and speaking have been replaced with…
Navigating Differentiated Instruction
A quality English-language arts curriculum designed to differentiate instruction is like a good nav system. Teachers committed to differentiated instruction need to invest in curricular resources…