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Spelling & Vocabulary
Wordiness | Eliminating Expletives
Expletives are just cuss words! Teach students to eliminate unnecessary words and phrases in their writing in this lesson. Often, expletives add emotion or emphasis to…
Reading Incentive Ideas
As an M.A. reading specialist, I have served in elementary, middle school, high school, and community college settings. Getting kids and adults to put down their…
Avoid Attention-Getting Alliteration
Avoid using poetic devices, such as alliteration, in essays. Poetic devices focus the reader’s attention on the writing itself, while essays are designed to argue a…
Standards Based Grading Rehab
We teachers are impaired by our culturally inculcated group think. We need to make amends and take the 12 steps in standards based grading rehab.
Essay Rules | Word Choice
Teach the essay rules about proper word choices with this FREE lesson. Plus, download a FREE set of writing posters.
2018 Top 10 Quotes
Teachers... How well do you and your students know American culture? Current events? It's quiz time! For the last 13 years, Yale Law School librarian Shapiro adds…
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…