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Tag: spelling programs
Should Grades 4-8 Teachers Teach Spelling?
Should Grades 4-8 Teachers Teach Spelling? It depends. The real question is "Do your students (or some of your students) need to improve their spelling?" Included…
Spelling Tests and Instruction
Learn how to diagnose and remediate spelling deficits.
Words Their Way® Spelling Inventories v. the Diagnostic Spelling Assessment
Teachers who are committed to differentiated and individualized spelling to help students catch up, while they keep up with grade-level instruction believe that spelling assessment should…
10 Reasons Middle School Teachers Should Teach Spelling
Intermediate, upper elementary, and middle school teachers are not doing their jobs teaching spelling. But they can! Spelling is connected to reading, vocabulary, and writing... even…
The Problem with Words Their Way®
According to noted spelling researcher and author, J. Richard Gentry, "Words Their Way is a guidebook for studying words; it is not a spelling curriculum. The original preface…
Word Crimes (Revisited)
"We're all role models: Kids are watchin' and they're listenin'." Check out a few of the more egregious examples of President Trump's tweet and speech word…
How to Teach Multiple Meaning Words Vocabulary
The Common Core authors include multiple meaning words in the Language Strand as Standard L.4.a., but word play is also included in word relationships Standard L.5.b.…
Figures of Speech and Idiomatic Expressions
The authors of the Common Core State Standards recognize the essential roles that figures of speech play in our English language. I especially appreciate the author's…