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Tag: response to intervention

Reading Mar 17, 2012

Ten Reasons Teachers Avoid RtI Collaboration

If your school and/or district is moving toward an RtI model, knowing the ten reasons why teachers avoid RtI Collaboration will help those committed to the…

Reading Feb 20, 2012

Reading Intervention Programs

Traditional reading intervention program publishers have the resources to ensure that most school districts adopt factory-produced, repackaged materials that are not written by reading teachers. Following…

Reading Dec 11, 2011

Community College Reading Programs

Increased enrollment in our community colleges has created an economic double-whammy for both hard-pressed state budgets and for community colleges themselves. An increasingly key factor in…

Reading Dec 5, 2011

Secondary Reading Program Placement

No matter which school-wide model of reading intervention is used at the middle or high school levels, the problem of proper reading placement is common to…

Grammar & Mechanics Oct 22, 2011

Common Core Grammar Standards

The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts are divided into Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language strands. The Common Core Grammar Standards are…

Grammar & Mechanics Oct 16, 2011

Response to Intervention and the Common Core

RTI (Response to Intervention), ELL, ESL, and ELD (English Language Development), and DI (Differentiated/Individualized Instruction), instructional strategies are all validated in the Common Core State Standards.…

Literacy Centers Dec 19, 2010

Phonemic Awareness Activities

Find a summary of the reading research on phonemic awareness, get six free whole-class phonemic awareness assessments, an Mp3 of the "New Alphabet Song," and a…

Reading Dec 7, 2010

Teach Your Child to Read

One of the true joys and responsibilities of parenthood is teaching your child to read. But wait... isn't that the teacher's job? Of course it is,…