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Thursday, March 15, 2018

Building Vocabulary: Words in Context

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This post is the fourth in a series on vocabulary instruction. Part 1 provided an overview , Part 2 focused on the conceptual base for voca...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Building Vocabulary: The List-Group-Label-Add Strategy

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This post is the third in a series on vocabulary instruction. You can find Part 1: An Overview here and Part 2: Teaching from a Conceptual...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Building Vocabulary: Teaching from a Conceptual Base

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This is the second in a series on vocabulary instruction. You can find Part 1: An Overview here. Dr. Seuss or Russ Walsh? There ar...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Buiding Vocabulary: An Overview

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The first in a series on teaching and learning new words. The importance of a strong vocabulary to successful reading is well-documente...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Armed with Books

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Let's get this out of the way up front. Arming teachers with guns is a stupid idea. It is such a stupid idea, it gives stupid a ba...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Increase Encounters with Text

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In this final entry in the When Readers Struggle series, I want to reveal the silver bullet. The secret ingredient. The magic formula. Th...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Americans Don't Care About Their Children

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The continued gun violence visited upon America's schools and school children, along with the abject failure of the adults who run the...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Reading Comprehension, Part 3, Talking and Writing After Reading

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In part 1 of this three part series on reading comprehension, I discussed what the teacher can do to help students develop the background ...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

When Readers Struggle: Reading Comprehension, Part 2

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In part one of this discussion of reading comprehension, I discussed the teacher's role in building the disciplinary and world knowle...