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How to Differentiate Instruction
With the Response to Intervention (RTI) model now being incorporated into many school districts today, it has become increasingly important to help frame the differentiated instruction…
How to Teach Conjunctions
Upper elementary, middle school, and high school students will need more examples of all three types of conjunctions to assist in accurate identification, and more importantly,…
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…
Reading Intervention: How to Beat the Odds
To beat the odds indicating that only one-in-six remedial readers will ever "catch up" to grade level, we need to analyze what has not worked and…
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…
Teaching Essay Style: 15 Tricks of the Trade
“Never start a sentence with But.” Countless middle school and high school English-language arts teachers cringe when their students faithfully repeat this elementary school dictum. “Never…
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 a Science of Writing Program
Teachers interested in writing research want to teach according to the Science of Writing. No one wants to throw away explicit grammar, spelling, and writing strategies…