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Why Teachers Have Failed Their Students in Spelling
Teachers have failed to accurately diagnose spelling strengths and weaknesses and have failed to differentiate spelling instruction. Lulled into complacency by the "whole language" movement, teachers…
The Ending “an” or “en” Spelling Rule
The Ending “an” or “en” Spelling Rule is one of the most consistent and useful spelling rules. Find other spelling rules, tests, and songs or raps…
The Top Ten Syllable Rules
The Top Ten Syllable Rules will help students improve reading, pronunciation, and spelling accuracy. Applying these syllabication rules will also help readers identify prefixes, roots, and…
How to Improve Your Vocabulary
Knowing common Greek and Latin prefixes, roots, and suffixes will significantly improve one’s vocabulary. In fact, over half of the words in any dictionary contain a…
How to Learn SAT® Vocabulary
SAT-takers find the critical reading sections challenging because both the sentence completion and passage-based reading sections are so vocabulary dependent. You may not have a huge…
How to Differentiate Spelling Instruction
So, how can an informed teacher (that is you) differentiate instruction in an efficient manner? Simply follow these five steps...