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Secondary Reading Assessments
How to place students in appropriate reading intervention instruction with secondary reading assessments? Teacher/counselor/parent/cumulative file recommendations and normed or even criterion referenced tests to narrow things…
A New Reading Fluency Assessment
Years ago, my favorite elementary principal tasked me, as a freshly-minted reading specialist, to design a new reading fluency assessment for our school. We had been…
Reading Grade Levels
When discussing reading grade levels, we can get deeply into the weeds. However the purpose of this article is to help teachers deal with the parent…
CORE and LETRS Phonics Screeners
In my following criticisms of the CORE and LETRS phonics screeners, I'm reminded that it's unfair to criticize a duck for being a duck. Of the…
Vocabulary Instructional Sequence
Thought I’d share my grades 4–8 comprehensive vocabulary instructional sequence. Includes multiple meanings, Greek and Latin morphology, word relationships, figures of speech, connotations, and academic language:…
Structured Word Inquiry
If you've been reading up on morphology and its importance in teaching our students to read and write well, you've been hearing these buzz phrases: structured…
Diagnostic Academic Language Assessments
Three questions about Diagnostic Academic Language Assessments: 1. What if you were able to administer comprehensive diagnostic language assessments to determine exactly which Tier 2 academic…
Create Decodable Text with Artificial Intelligence
Reading specialists, language coaches, SLPs, EL/EB, SPED, and reading teachers will appreciate a new free tool to create decodable text with artificial intelligence (AI). The recently…