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Monday, January 29, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Fluency

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In previous posts on this blog and as a guest author on Valinda Kimmel's wonderful blog, That Thing You Do , I have discussed fluency...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

New Jersey Orders Closure of Trenton Charter School

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Here is the lede from a story in the Times of Trenton for January 26, 2018: A Trenton charter school could close in June, one year afte...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Solving Words, Part 3

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In part 1 of this three part series on solving words here , I proposed the view of the reader encountering an unknown word as a flexible p...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Solving Words, Pt. 2

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In my previous post. When Readers Struggle: Solving Words, Part 1,   I described a reader facing an unknown word as a problem solving word...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Solving Words, Part 1

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The next three posts in this series will deal with what is probably the number one concern of most teachers when it comes to struggling re...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Honor Dr. King by Raising Your Voice

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter . - Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, Martin Luther King, Jr. D...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Sight Words

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I clearly remember my eldest daughter, Beth's, first sight word. Her four-year-old self was strapped into the back seat of our 1965 Me...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Oral Language

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A child's oral language facility, we know, plays a major role in learning to read. As Hiebert, Pearson, Taylor, Richardson & Pari...