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ChatGPT Essay Detection
How can we English teachers detect ChatGPT-produced essays? We can bury our heads in the sand like snooty ostriches and claim that our superior literary backgrounds…
Syntax and Pronouns
An outstanding fourth grade teacher posted in one of my favorite Facebook groups posted a question regarding syntax and pronouns. She asked how to get students…
Scarborough’s Other Side of the Rope
We all know about word recognition, but what about Scarborough's Other Side of the Rope? In 2001, Dr. Hollis Scarborough, a developmental psychologist, helped parents and…
Sounds to Print Phonics Games
Grades 4-adult reading intervention teachers need efficient, evidence-based instructional resources, such as these free sounds to print phonics games, to accelerate reading and spelling acquisition. Students…
Diagnostic Spelling Assessment
Diagnostic Spelling Assessment Following are accurate and teachable spelling assessments and corresponding recording matrices to help teachers determine what students know and what they do not know. Each assessment…
The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Assessment-based Instruction
There's never enough instructional time to teach students who struggle with reading. However... The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Assessment-based Instruction provides diagnostically-based instructional resources to individualize…
Executive Function Skills
If you googled Executive Function Skills to get this article, you know that this is a trending educational topic. As educators, parents, and students, we've learned a lot…
Syntax in Reading and Writing
The greatest bang for the buck for fluent readers to improve academic reading comprehension and writing sophistication? Syntax What does the research say about syntax? “In…