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Free Independent Reading Resources
Find relevant articles, free resources, and teaching tips regarding how to develop an effective independent reading program in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog.
Eight Reading Intervention Models
Administrators, special education teachers, ELD coordinators, reading specialists, teachers, and parents need to work together to mesh Response to Intervention (RtI) guidelines with resources, personnel, and…
Don’t Teach to the LCD
Our penchant for helping individuals can work cross-purpose to our overall mission of helping all students. In fact, we often wind up teaching to the LCD…
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…
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…
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…
Reading Intervention: How to Beat the Odds
To beat the odds indicating that only one-in-six remedial readers will ever "catch up" to grade level, we need to analyze what has not worked and…