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Tag: Mark Pennington
Why D.O.L. Does Not Transfer to Writing
Psychologists and educational theorists have developed learning theories to explain how new learning and skills are most efficiently mastered and best transfer to other academic activities.…
Secondary Reading Program Placement
No matter which school-wide model of reading intervention is used at the middle or high school levels, the problem of proper reading placement is common to…
Problems with Daily Oral Language (D.O.L.)
Daily Oral Language (D.O.L.) requires students to multitask and the instruction consists of merely oral review. Both are poor instructional pedagogy and it is no wonder…
Grammar Openers
Following is a brief analysis of the four most common means of current grammar instruction. Teachers will tend to agree with my summary and analysis of…
How Much and What to Mark on Essays
For those who still assign writing process essays and/or essay exams and believe that students can and do benefit from comments, the question of How Much…
Common Core Grammar Standards
The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts are divided into Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language strands. The Common Core Grammar Standards are…
Response to Intervention and the Common Core
RTI (Response to Intervention), ELL, ESL, and ELD (English Language Development), and DI (Differentiated/Individualized Instruction), instructional strategies are all validated in the Common Core State Standards.…
Elements of Plot
Teaching the elements of plot is essential to developing internal story schema and comprehension development. Here is a fractured fairy tale of Goldilocks and the Three…