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Tag: Teaching the Language Strand

Spelling & Vocabulary Apr 5, 2015

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.

Grammar & Mechanics Apr 5, 2015

How to Teach the Common Core Spelling Standards

In How to Teach the Common Core Spelling Standards, author Mark Pennington details what the authors of the Common Core have to say about spelling instruction.

Grammar & Mechanics Apr 5, 2015

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…

Reading Oct 20, 2014

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…

Grammar & Mechanics Oct 18, 2014

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…

Grammar & Mechanics Oct 18, 2014

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…

Grammar & Mechanics Oct 13, 2014

Progressive Skills Review

The Progressive Skills Review is the addendum to the Common Core Language Strand.

Grammar & Mechanics Jul 28, 2014

Latin Abbreviations for Time

Today we are studying Latin Abbreviations for Time.