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Reading
Are You Ready for RtI?
Jumping into RtI and the three-tier instructional delivery model without first addressing legitimate concerns and before gaining stakeholder consensus has given a black-eye to a promising…
Ten Reasons Teachers Avoid RtI Collaboration
If your school and/or district is moving toward an RtI model, knowing the ten reasons why teachers avoid RtI Collaboration will help those committed to the…
Reading Intervention Programs
Traditional reading intervention program publishers have the resources to ensure that most school districts adopt factory-produced, repackaged materials that are not written by reading teachers. Following…
The Problem with Dialectical Journals
Dialectical journals have been teacher favorites since literature-based reading pedagogy was popularized in the 1980s. However, this reader-centered instruction creates more problems than it solves. In…
Community College Reading Programs
Increased enrollment in our community colleges has created an economic double-whammy for both hard-pressed state budgets and for community colleges themselves. An increasingly key factor in…
Secondary Reading Program Placement
No matter which school-wide model of reading intervention is used at the middle or high school levels, the problem of proper reading placement is common to…
Response to Intervention and the Common Core
RTI (Response to Intervention), ELL, ESL, and ELD (English Language Development), and DI (Differentiated/Individualized Instruction), instructional strategies are all validated in the Common Core State Standards.…
Elements of Plot
Teaching the elements of plot is essential to developing internal story schema and comprehension development. Here is a fractured fairy tale of Goldilocks and the Three…