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Misleading Educational Malpractice
I've gathered a selection of articles I've written regarding these movements, programs, philosophies, mindsets, and educational practices that I find to lack some degree of educational…
Flexible Phonics Instruction
There is no doubt that explicit, systematic phonics instruction has its place in reading instruction with greater instructional continuity and success than with hodge-podge synthetic, analytic,…
Dyslexia Is Not Real?
I agree with the conclusion of the International Literacy Association in response to the criticisms of the International Dyslexia Association: "In other words, there is no…
Reading Fluency ILA Position
Reading specialists and response to intervention teachers will be pleasantly surprised that a whole new group of position papers published on International Literacy Association website upholds…
Should We Teach Reading Strategies?
With beginning and struggling readers, spend more time on the reading strategies, such as word identification, that are truly skill-builders and worthy of ample instructional time and…
Teacher Talk Top 60
Every profession has its share of cringeworthy and overused chatter: snarky comments, self-promoting babble, passive-aggressive suggestions, unwanted offers of support, gossipy grumblings, better-than-thou judgments, guilt-you-into observations,…
Reading Assessment | Don’t Test What You Can’t Teach
My advice regarding reading assessments? 1. Screen all readers with key assessments. 2. Administer the rest of the whole-class assessments to the struggling readers identified in…
RtI Reading Tests and Resources
Teachers buy-in to the value of assessment-based RtI reading tests when the assessments meet seven criteria. Get these FREE comprehensive assessments for site-level Response to Intervention teams…