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Tag: Mark Pennington
Fluency Assessment Problems
The heart of effective reading intervention, whether in a comprehensive Response to Intervention (RtI) program, individual remedial reading classes, reading tutoring, or in-class literacy centers, guided…
Reading Fluency Norms
Hasbrouck and Tindal, have now (2017) have replicated their initial study for grades 1–6. Following is the latest data, i.e. 2017 for grades 1–6 and 2006 for 6–8.
Books for Struggling Readers
I just finished a comment on a teacher's post asking for feedback on her self-authored ESL teaching resources and chapter books. I was struck by the…
Grammar Quiz for Teachers
Find out what you know and don't know about grammar. Take the Grammar Quiz for Teachers. Each grammatical term is used in the Common Core Anchor…
Knowledge of Language | Anchor Standards for Language
The key word in the Knowledge of Language Standard is apply. The somewhat ambiguous term, language, refers to the other five Standards in the Language Strand which encompass…
Assessment-based Re-teaching
Good teachers care more about learning than teaching. If you are willing to re-teach what you've already taught (and not yet taught) this year, check out…
Reading Intervention Program Politics 101
I've learned to take a friendly, but assertive stance with administrators regarding reading intervention programs. The article provides teachers with three practical ideas to apply political…
Pre-teach before Reading Assessments
Good assessments catch students at their best. That's why it makes sense to pre-teach before teachers assess to help students retrieve prior knowledge and get the…