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Tag: differentiated spelling instruction
How to Teach Spelling
Learn how to use the traditional Monday spelling pretest to create a diagnostically-based grade-level spelling program.
10 Reasons Middle School Teachers Should Teach Spelling
Intermediate, upper elementary, and middle school teachers are not doing their jobs teaching spelling. But they can! Spelling is connected to reading, vocabulary, and writing... even…
ELA Language Anchor Standards | Curriculum Maps
Download these FREE full-year ELA Language Anchor Standards | Curriculum Maps for 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade.
The Problem with Words Their Way®
According to noted spelling researcher and author, J. Richard Gentry, "Words Their Way is a guidebook for studying words; it is not a spelling curriculum. The original preface…
Middle School Spelling
Teaching spelling for a small amount of time per week will give your middle school students the biggest bang for the buck, in terms of reading…
How to Teach Speling
The question is how to fit a spelling pretest, practice, and post-test into precious few class minutes. Here’s how to get it done in 13-20 minutes…
Spelling Scope and Sequence
Defining a specific year-to-year instructional scope and sequence (the Common Core spelling Standards are far too generic) with colleagues provides a game plan and also defines…
30 Spelling Questions, Answers, and Resources
Spelling instruction remains a contentious topic. No other literacy skill seems to run the complete gamut of instructional implementation from emphasis to de-emphasis. This article deals…