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Tag: reading comprehension
Summer School Reading Intervention
More and more schools are seeing the value of summer school as an option for intensive reading intervention. Whether students are assigned to the program and…
Flexible Phonics Instruction
There is no doubt that explicit, systematic phonics instruction has its place in reading instruction with greater instructional continuity and success than with hodge-podge synthetic, analytic,…
Dyslexia Is Not Real?
I agree with the conclusion of the International Literacy Association in response to the criticisms of the International Dyslexia Association: "In other words, there is no…
Reading Fluency ILA Position
Reading specialists and response to intervention teachers will be pleasantly surprised that a whole new group of position papers published on International Literacy Association website upholds…
Should We Teach Reading Strategies?
With beginning and struggling readers, spend more time on the reading strategies, such as word identification, that are truly skill-builders and worthy of ample instructional time and…
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…
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…