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Tag: Mark Pennington
Reading Intervention Whys, Whats, and Hows
All too often, reading intervention assessment is limited to establishing the whys. Teachers also need specific whats to inform their hows of instruction.
Common Core Vocabulary: 12 Program Assessment Questions
The Common Core State Standards affirm much of what elementary and secondary ELA/reading teachers have always been doing. However, the breadth, complexity, and depth of instruction…
Selective Implementation of the Common Core
Many district curriculum specialists are simply not providing training and budget allocations for the other Language Strand and Speaking and Listening Strand precisely because they don’t…
Cherry Picking the Common Core
Teachers can implement the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects as they are designed--each part…
Progressive Skills Review
The Progressive Skills Review is the addendum to the Common Core Language Strand.
Expository Reading Fluency
Struggling remedial readers need both practice in reading fluency and practice in reading increasingly difficult text. Older readers need to both "catch up" and "keep up"…
Decodable Books for Older Readers
Older remedial reading students can learn to read when provided This article shares why Decodable Take Home Books for Older Readers.
Latin Abbreviations for Time
Today we are studying Latin Abbreviations for Time.