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Tag: English-language arts
Research-Based Vocabulary Worksheets
Besides widespread reading, the key to vocabulary development is deep instruction in the words themselves. Passing out the vocabulary list to memorize is not "deep instruction."…
Research-Based Spelling Worksheets
The educational research provides insight as to what makes a spelling worksheet an effective instructional strategy for knowledge and/or skills acquisition. Spelling pattern worksheets provide individualized…
Research-Based Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Worksheets
Worksheets can target practice in a specific skill or help students learn a new concept. Worksheets can serve as excellent independent practice. Teachers can use worksheets…
Drill and Kill Worksheets
Although deliberate practice is not solely reserved for worksheets, it would certainly seem that targeted, independent worksheets can certainly provide deliberate practice that involves "attention, rehearsal,…
Standards and Accountability
The standards-based movement has ushered in a new era of accountability in public education with all of its attendant problems and teachers may be the ones…
Free Resources on Educational Issues and Teaching Trends
As servants and scientists, educational issues and teaching trends affect who we are and how we teach more than many of us like to admit. The…
Free ELD and ESL Instructional Resources
Find relevant articles, free resources (including comprehensive whole-class reading, spelling, and grammar assessments), and EL/ESL teaching tips in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog.
Free English-language Arts Instructional Resources
English-language arts teachers are a unique breed. They are decidedly schizophrenic in that they teach both content and process. Other content area teachers tend to expect…