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Tag: reading assessments
Consonant Digraphs for Big Kids
s an MA reading specialist, I know that teachers get confused about consonant blends. Let me give you the definitions, a way to remember the difference,…
Consonant-Final e for Big Kids
Students find the silent final e to be a frustrating component of our English sound-spelling system. In particular, second-language learners struggle with both pronunciations and spellings of…
Assessment-based Individualized Learning
Every educational movement needs a catchy new acronym. ABIL will have to do: Assessment-based Individualized Learning. Simply put, it's the supplemental instruction students need to catch…
Student-Centered Reading Intervention
Starting at the instructional needs of below grade level readers and establishing instructional priorities should determine the essentials of any reading intervention program. In other words,…
Free ELA and Reading Assessments
However, let's bring some common sense to the what and how of English-language Arts and reading diagnostic assessments. What (which) assessments really provide meaningful and useful…
Assessment-based Individualized Instruction and Differentiated Instruction
Find relevant articles, free resources (including whole-class reading, spelling, and grammar assessments), and teaching tips to differentiate instruction in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog.
How to Differentiate Instruction
With the Response to Intervention (RTI) model now being incorporated into many school districts today, it has become increasingly important to help frame the differentiated instruction…
The 18 Reasons Not to Use Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a simple software concept that was at the right time (late 1980s) and right place (public schools during a transition from whole…