Category · 323 articles
Reading
Level Books with Word Recognition
Much better to affirm parental judgment in terms of which books are challenging for their own children. Even much better to equip students with self-selection of…
Diagnostic Reading and Spelling Assessments
Elementary, secondary, and adult English language-arts and reading intervention teachers need comprehensive literacy assessments to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses for individual students and their classes. Following…
The Problem with Words Their Way®
According to noted spelling researcher and author, J. Richard Gentry, "Words Their Way is a guidebook for studying words; it is not a spelling curriculum. The original preface…
Teach Morphemes, Not Just Academic Words
My purpose in this article is convince teachers to include high utility and high frequency Greek and Latin meaning-based word parts (morphemes) as part of a…
Greek and Latin “Dead” Languages
Although it’s true that no one, other than scholars, speaks and writes in classical Greek or Latin today, both of the languages remain very much alive…
How to Memorize Greek and Latin Word Parts
Linking one thing to another can provide a memorable association. Once the association has been well-established, knowing one thing prompts the memory of the other. That’s…
Forget Sans Forgetica
The most recent "closure" and "desirable difficulty" theory to practice misapplication is the Sans Forgetica font. If you haven’t seen this new one, some researchers are…
Greek and Latin Vocabulary Research
The following article will explore why the best and most recent educational research on Greek and Latin morphology does not trickle down to teachers and will…