How to Revolutionize Your Writing Workshop
Every day in writing classrooms, teachers feel like banging their heads against the wall. Why? Because their students’ sentence structure is lacking. Teachers wish there was a way to teach…
How to Make Modeling Writing Easier
For so many reasons, teachers are uncomfortable with teaching writing. Most of us don’t do a whole lot of writing on our own, so we are out of practice. Many…
What are the Best Methods for Teaching Grammar?
The best method for teaching grammar is easier than you might think! Keeping it grounded in real reading and writing is the key.
The Significance of Syntax in Comprehension
A very important part of reading comprehension is language comprehension. It’s one of the two factors named in the long-ago created Simple View of Reading, and is also a big…
The Importance of Fluency: A Critical Factor
Accuracy is getting a lot of attention right now. And rightly so. If a child isn’t accurately reading the words, there’s not much chance of them gaining much meaning from…