education
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Enhance Reading Comprehension with Effective Grammar Lessons
Grammar instruction plays such a big role in improving reading comprehension! Grammar and syntax gives readers the tools to understand the structure and meaning of texts. At its core, grammar helps students grasp how words work together. GRAMMAR IS HOW we put words together to form coherent sentences, which is essential for decoding the meaning… Continue reading
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Planning a Science of Reading Aligned Unit for Secondary ELA
One question that I always asked when I was getting into SoR was “HOOOOOW do I incorporate these things in my SECONDARY classroom?” I promise that I asked it just like that every single time too. Because… like, this is all well and good but I’m not going to have my teenagers breaking down phonemes… Continue reading
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Establishing a Classroom of Readers: A Back to School Round Up
As we head back into the classrooms this fall, we’re all thinking about that first week of school and how we will get started. I would love to share with you some of the things that I do on those first few days of school. First, I think to start, we need a little recap… Continue reading
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What is your SoR Origin Story?
Do you know how many times I googled Science of Reading for Secondary, and in as many iterations as I could think of, before I found ANYTHING genuinely helpful? Have you done the same thing? Under any other circumstances, I would say that I’m just crazy but since I’ve had the same conversation with many… Continue reading
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Supplementing Your Curriculum with #SoRin2ndary
How can teachers integrate the Science of Reading research into Curriculum that is already full? Continue reading
