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Tag: phonics
Free Structural Analysis, Syllabication & Oral Language Resources
Word study is crucial to effective reading and spelling instruction. Knowing the structural components of words, including roots, affixes, and grammatical inflections will help your students…
20 Embarrassing Mispronunciations
Educated Americans often look down their long noses at those who mispronounce common words. However, even these literary illuminati have their fair share of embarrassing pronunciation…
Crazy Reading Fads
As an MA reading specialist, I’ve seen some strange remedial reading fads come and go over the years. Much like new weight loss products, each new…
Strange, but True: “Stuffed Animals Increase Reading Levels”
According to Riddering, students were given a stuffed animal as a "reading buddy" and were encouraged to read to their buddy. Because of this method, reading…
Assessment-Based Differentiated Instruction
Our understanding of the characteristics and proclivities of our students should inform both the what and the how of instruction. Consider this: students don’t know what…
Teach Content Reading
A growing trend with Response to Intervention models is to expand the reading block to more than two hours per day. Elementary reading is reductive. More…
Response to Intervention: What Doesn’t Work
With the newly released RtI document and as states and districts scramble to conform to Race to the Top carrots and sticks, voices of experience need…
How to Teach Reading Intervention
Teaching reading intervention is qualitatively different from teaching beginning reading. By definition, the initial reading instruction did not “take” to a sufficient degree, so things must…