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Spelling & Vocabulary
How to Memorize Using the Association Technique
Need to improve your long term memory? The association memory trick will help students prepare more efficiently for tests. The trick will help sales people remember…
How to Improve Your Vocabulary
Knowing common Greek and Latin prefixes, roots, and suffixes will significantly improve one’s vocabulary. In fact, over half of the words in any dictionary contain a…
Eye Movement and Speed Reading
Recent reading research has found that better readers have less eye fixations per line than poor readers. Multiple eye fixations also slow down reading speed. Speed…
How to Learn SAT® Vocabulary
SAT-takers find the critical reading sections challenging because both the sentence completion and passage-based reading sections are so vocabulary dependent. You may not have a huge…
How and When to Teach Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the key predictor of reading success. However, is it a pre-requisite skill or a by-product of reading? This article suggests that phonemic awareness…
How to Differentiate Spelling Instruction
So, how can an informed teacher (that is you) differentiate instruction in an efficient manner? Simply follow these five steps...
How to Improve Reading Comprehension with Self-Questioning
Everyone knows that to get the right answers you need to ask the right questions. Asking questions about the text as you read significantly improves reading…