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How to Use Essay Evidence
Whether writing an informational/explanatory or argumentative essay, knowing which evidence appropriately supports the topic sentence of each body paragraph is essential. Teach your students to follow…
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…
Simple Sentence Diagramming
Simple sentence diagrams help students focus on one grammatical element without all the time-consuming drawing.
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…
The Problem with Words Their Way®
According to noted spelling researcher and author, J. Richard Gentry, "Words Their Way is a guidebook for studying words; it is not a spelling curriculum. The original preface…
Teach Morphemes, Not Just Academic Words
My purpose in this article is convince teachers to include high utility and high frequency Greek and Latin meaning-based word parts (morphemes) as part of a…
Greek and Latin “Dead” Languages
Although it’s true that no one, other than scholars, speaks and writes in classical Greek or Latin today, both of the languages remain very much alive…