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Tag: sight words
Heart Wordles
Do you love Wordle? For those of you teaching reading intervention, SPED, or ELL classes, here’s a set of 43 FREE Google slide games to help…
How to Teach Heart Words
Want to watch how I teach two Heart Words to older reading intervention students and lead them in guided practice? Check out my "real-time" (7:52) lesson…
Should We Teach High Frequency Words?
My take is that teaching (or more likely practicing and testing) long lists of high frequency reading words (the sight words or tricky words depending upon one's side of the Atlantic) or…
ESL Reading Assessments
The best ESL resources are ones which are assessment-based, not program-based. Clearly, one-size-fits-all ESL resources would not work equally as well for divergent English-language learners. Catering…
r-controlled Vowels for Big Kids
Following is the explicit, systematic approach to phonics acquisition via small group workshops from my reading intervention program. Download the entire set of r-controlled vowel lessons and…
Mastery Learning in RtI
I just finished listening to a TED TALK by Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy. Sal was talking about mastery learning and the importance of…
Fluency Assessment Problems
The heart of effective reading intervention, whether in a comprehensive Response to Intervention (RtI) program, individual remedial reading classes, reading tutoring, or in-class literacy centers, guided…
Reading Fluency Norms
Hasbrouck and Tindal, have now (2017) have replicated their initial study for grades 1–6. Following is the latest data, i.e. 2017 for grades 1–6 and 2006 for 6–8.