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Nov 18, 2025
Planning an Individualized Spelling Lesson
Spelling words can be challenging, and it can also be daunting to teach. As Linnea Ehri (2024) explains, “In English, there are alternative ways that sounds are spelled, and this variability makes it more difficult to produce perfect spellings of words” (p. 5). For example, there are multiple ways to spell the /ō/ sound, including
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Nov 13, 2025
What are Study Skills?
Some students may develop study skills with little guidance, but most students require explicit instruction and continuous practice to engage their executive functions in order to effectively process, coordinate, and use the vast array of information they encounter each day. When students master how to implement effective study skills, their metacognitive skills improve, helping them
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Nov 4, 2025
Unpacking Reading Comprehension
Background Knowledge Just like the fully stocked backpack, a reader’s background knowledge and vocabulary serve as essential tools for understanding. Some students may enter the classroom with fewer of these tools, or with them in disarray. Our job as teachers is to help them fill and organize their backpacks for reading success. Background knowledge has
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Oct 8, 2025
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Behavior and Brain Perspectives on Building Fluency: From the Neuroscience Lab to the Classroom | Webinar Recording
Join Elizabeth Norton as she shares perspectives on studying reading, especially fluency, from its earliest predictors and building blocks to its outcomes in the high school classroom and beyond.
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Sep 29, 2025
Reading Fluency: What is it, and Why is it Hard to Change?
The definition that has shaped my view of reading fluency and much of my subsequent work comes largely from my PhD mentor, Dr. Maryanne Wolf. According to her, fluency (or “fluent comprehension”) is when each of the component parts of text reading (e.g., phonological, motoric, morphological, syntactic, orthographic processes), are not just accurate, but automatic,
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Sep 17, 2025
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Science-Based and Artful Approaches to Phonics and Vocabulary Instruction: Word Study that Works! | Webinar Recording
Join Dr. Tim Rasinski to explore effective and engaging methods for helping students learn words and their meanings.
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Aug 25, 2025
Let’s Make Word Study (Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary) More Game-Like!
Have you ever noticed that as you play a game regularly, you tend to get better at the game? We have a special name for it when you become better at something – it’s called learning! Indeed, in an ASCD blog article (1.28.22), leading literacy scholar Nell Duke explores What Wordle Reminds Us About Effective
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Aug 8, 2025
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Executive Function: A Guidebook
Executive Function (EF) is a set of mental processes that helps us manage our thoughts, actions, and emotions to achieve goals. According to Newhall (2014), it enables us to plan, start, and finish tasks. It helps us focus, control impulses, monitor and adapt behaviors, and stay on track to get things done. Renowned executive function
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Jul 8, 2025
What is Dyslexia?
Let’s break this definition down piece by piece. Specific Learning Disability: Specific learning disability (SLD) is a category taken from the federal legislation–Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004)–that guides decisions regarding who qualifies for special education services. There are 13 disability categories under IDEA of which SLD is the most common. SLD is defined
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