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Free Structural Analysis, Syllabication & Oral Language Resources
Word study is crucial to effective reading and spelling instruction. Knowing the structural components of words, including roots, affixes, and grammatical inflections will help your students…
20 Embarrassing Mispronunciations
Educated Americans often look down their long noses at those who mispronounce common words. However, even these literary illuminati have their fair share of embarrassing pronunciation…
How to Teach Reading Intervention
Teaching reading intervention is qualitatively different from teaching beginning reading. By definition, the initial reading instruction did not “take” to a sufficient degree, so things must…
How Not to Teach Context Clues
Most teachers are familiar with and teach context clues as an important reading strategy to define unknown words; however, fewer teachers are familiar with the debate…
Cambridge University Reading Test
The whole word Cambridge University “Reading Test” hoax actually points to the fact that readers really do look at all of the letters and apply the…
How to be an Effective Reading Specialist
As an elementary reading specialist and staff developer for five years, I learned from lots of my mistakes. In the hope that prospective reading specialists, coaches,…
Why Johnny Still Can’t Read
Meet Johnny. Although... you probably already know him. In fact, you probably have a Johnny in your class right now. It may also be possible that…