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Assessment-Based Differentiated Instruction
Our understanding of the characteristics and proclivities of our students should inform both the what and the how of instruction. Consider this: students don’t know what…
23 Myths of Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated instruction "is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as…
Grammar Instruction: Establishing Common Ground
Perhaps no instructional issue in English-language arts produces more contentious debate than the issue of how best to teach grammar. All too often we bog down…
How to Teach Grammar
Within the field of English-language arts, there is probably no more contentious curricular issue than that of how to teach grammar. The “Reading Wars” and “Writing…
How to Teach Prepositional Phrases
Wouldn't it make sense to spend instructional time on the part of speech that constitutes 30% of all writing? Prepositional phrases are used that much. The…
Teach Content Reading
A growing trend with Response to Intervention models is to expand the reading block to more than two hours per day. Elementary reading is reductive. More…
Response to Intervention: What Doesn’t Work
With the newly released RtI document and as states and districts scramble to conform to Race to the Top carrots and sticks, voices of experience need…
How to Teach Thesis Statements
The most important part of the multi-paragraph essay is a well-worded thesis statement. The thesis statement should state the author’s purpose for writing or the point…