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Close Reading Narrative Worksheet
Close Reading? A helpful, time-tested reading strategy, which was brought back to life in 2009 with the advent of the Common Core State Standards and the…
Close Reading Expository Worksheet
At the end of this article, I provide a Close Reading Expository Worksheet for you to freely download and use with the next close reading of…
Independent Close Reading
I hesitate to criticize a good thing too harshly. We teachers tend all-too-often to abandon something that works for the new latest and greatest educational fad. …
Which High Frequency Words?
First, let's dispel a few notions about how we learn to read. It's not a which came first, the chicken or the egg? question some still…
Reading Fluency Assessment
Wouldn't it be great if you found a two-minute, numbered reading fluency that was leveled, at say first through seventh grade reading levels, did not require…
Phonemic Awareness Assessments
Phonemic Awareness can be assessed and taught to both beginning and remedial reading students with fficient, comprehensive, and accurate whole class (or at least small group)…
Reading Assessment Issues
I have a bit of advice: Only administer, correct, record, and monitor reading assessments if they are quick, comprehensive and teachable and if you, the teacher,…
How to Practice Reading Comprehension
We can't teach reading comprehension, but we can practice it. Johnny has high fluency scores and everyone knows he's a good reader, so one way to…