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Spelling & Vocabulary
Shanahan’s Six Goals for Vocabulary Programs
I’m Mark Pennington, reading specialist and author of the popular grade-level vocabulary programs, titled Comprehensive Vocabulary Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. As I was…
Vocabulary Instructional Sequence
Thought I’d share my grades 4–8 comprehensive vocabulary instructional sequence. Includes multiple meanings, Greek and Latin morphology, word relationships, figures of speech, connotations, and academic language:…
Sounds to Print Phonics Games
Grades 4-adult reading intervention teachers need efficient, evidence-based instructional resources, such as these free sounds to print phonics games, to accelerate reading and spelling acquisition. Students…
Reading Assessments for Middle and High School
Yes, these assessments are free: Phonemic Awareness, Vowel Sounds Phonics, Consonant Sound Phonics, Heart Words, Rimes, Spelling, Fluency. All but the fluency assessment are designed for…
Phonemic Awareness for Older Kids
Having recently reviewed Literary Resources LLC Bridge the Gap (Heggerty), I wanted to share my own approach to teaching phonemic awareness to older kids. My reading interventions…
How to Teach Heart Words
Want to watch how I teach two Heart Words to older reading intervention students and lead them in guided practice? Check out my "real-time" (7:52) lesson…
Sound-Spelling Cards
Reading teachers know the value of picture mnemonics to help students master phoneme-grapheme relationships. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. Sound-spelling cards can…
Heggerty Bridge the Gap Review
A comparative review between Heggerty's Bridge the Gap phonemic awareness intervention program and Pennington Publishing's two reading intervention programs.