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Reading
How to Teach Main Idea
Finding the main idea is a basic reading comprehension strategy. However, basic does not mean easy. Main idea questions are found on every normed and every…
Reading Readiness
The following big picture advice on getting students ready to read applies equally to teachers of four-year-olds, fourteen-year-olds, and forty-year-olds. Of course, there are differences that…
Don’t Teach to Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
Most teachers believe in some form of learning styles or multiple intelligences theories. The notion that each child learns differently, so we should adjust instruction accordingly…
Don’t Teach to Learning Styles
With 90% of our memories stored as meaning-based representations, stored independent of any modality-“not in terms of whether you saw, heard, or physically interacted with the…
Free Structural Analysis, Syllabication & Oral Language Resources
Word study is crucial to effective reading and spelling instruction. Knowing the structural components of words, including roots, affixes, and grammatical inflections will help your students…
Free ELA and Reading Assessments
However, let's bring some common sense to the what and how of English-language Arts and reading diagnostic assessments. What (which) assessments really provide meaningful and useful…
Free Independent Reading Resources
Find relevant articles, free resources, and teaching tips regarding how to develop an effective independent reading program in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog.
Assessment-based Individualized Instruction and Differentiated Instruction
Find relevant articles, free resources (including whole-class reading, spelling, and grammar assessments), and teaching tips to differentiate instruction in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog.