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Tag: Teaching Reading Strategies
Why ELA Teachers Burn Out
Teacher burn-out is real. We begin with high expectations of ourselves and idealism; however, after a few years the drudgery sets in. ELA teachers seem to…
Twenty Advanced Syllable Rules
The Twenty Advanced Syllable Rules are critical to accurate pronunciation, decoding, and spelling. Knowing the patterns of affixes and roots will also facilitate vocabulary acquisition.
Differentiated Reading Instruction for Gifted Students
It’s time to differentiate reading instruction for all students, including our gifted ones. An entirely different curriculum is not the answer, but gifted students do need…
Reading to Learn
The predominant educational philosophy in American schools can be summarized as this: Learn the skills of literacy in K-6 and apply these skills to learn academic…
Into, Through, but Not Beyond
English-language arts teachers and reading experts certainly agree that "into" activities help facilitate optimal comprehension. Additionally, teachers need to use "through" activities to assist students in…
How to Determine Reading Levels
Degrees of Reading Power (DRP)? Fleish-Kincaid? Lexiles? Accelerated Reader ATOS? Reading Recovery Levels? Fry’s Readability? John’s Basic Reading Inventory? Standardized test data? Each of these measures…
Teaching Fact and Opinion: When, What, and How
Helping students understand and apply the differences between fact and opinion is crucial to analytical reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Distinguishing between fact from opinion is…
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…