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Free Resources for Professional Development
Teachers tend to be a tough and judgmental audience. Especially when held as a captive audience. Often the most open-minded thinkers become the most close-minded learners…
Free Resources on Developmental Characteristics of Learners
Beyond teaching to the standards and teaching to students as individuals, we also need to teach to the culture and developmental characteristics of our learners. If…
Free Resources for Test Preparation
Find relevant articles, free resources, and teaching tips for test preparation in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog. Also get test-proven strategies for SAT/ACT success.
Free ELD and ESL Instructional Resources
Find relevant articles, free resources (including comprehensive whole-class reading, spelling, and grammar assessments), and EL/ESL teaching tips in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog.
Free English-language Arts Instructional Resources
English-language arts teachers are a unique breed. They are decidedly schizophrenic in that they teach both content and process. Other content area teachers tend to expect…
Free Resources to Teach English-language Arts Standards and the Common Core
Those who follow my blog will remember that I do advocate standards-based instruction; however, I also advocate student-based instruction. I find a happy melding of the…
Why and How to Teach Complex Text
A growing body of research presents a challenge to current K-12 reading/English-language Arts instruction. In essence, we need to “up” the level of text complexity and…
Independent Reading Homework
I developed an independent reading program based upon "reading discussions." Students read at home and lead a literary discussion with their parent for three-minutes per day,…