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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…
The 18 Reasons Not to Use Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a simple software concept that was at the right time (late 1980s) and right place (public schools during a transition from whole…
Don’t Rely on Rigor and Relevance
As a precursor to the current economic crisis, the in vogue educational leadership trend was the Rigor and Relevance Movement. Popularized over the last decade by…
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…
Writing in an ELD Classroom
Oral language proficiency most significantly impacts expository writing ability. The language of the playground is conducive to the narrative form, not the informative and argumentative essays…
How to Teach Transitions
Transition words are essential ingredients of coherent writing. Using transition words is somewhat of a writing science. Teachers can “teach” the nuts and bolts of this…
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…