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How to Teach Complex Sentences
The complex sentence is aptly named. Understanding, recognizing, and producing complex sentences require a substantial amount of prior knowledge and experience in reading, writing, listening, and…
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Today we are studying Abbreviations and Acronyms.
Common Core Test Results
The results of the Common Core Tests are in and and the instructional gaps and rediscovering why a balanced literacy program, including explicit instruction in grammar,…
How to Teach the Common Core Vocabulary Standards
In How to Teach the Vocabulary Common Core Standards, author Mark Pennington details the research foundations of teaching the Vocabulary L.4, 5, and 6 Standards.
How to Teach the Common Core Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Standards
Read the research and organizational design of the Common Core Language Strand and learn How to Teach the Common Core Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Standards with…
Common Core Vocabulary: 12 Program Assessment Questions
The Common Core State Standards affirm much of what elementary and secondary ELA/reading teachers have always been doing. However, the breadth, complexity, and depth of instruction…
Selective Implementation of the Common Core
Many district curriculum specialists are simply not providing training and budget allocations for the other Language Strand and Speaking and Listening Strand precisely because they don’t…
Cherry Picking the Common Core
Teachers can implement the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects as they are designed--each part…