Teaching Vocabulary

The SCRIP comprehension strategies are beneficial for building comprehension of both narrative and expository text. Get five free lessons and bookmarks.

Elementary, secondary, and adult English language-arts and reading intervention teachers need comprehensive literacy assessments to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses for individual students and their classes. These 14 reliable and valid reading and spelling assessments perform the dual function of placement and diagnosis. Also included are audio files and recording matrices.

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Finding the main idea is a basic reading comprehension strategy. However, basic does not mean easy. Main idea questions are found on every normed and every criterion-based reading comprehension assessment, such as the PAARC and SWBAT Common Core State Standards tests. Following are a workable definition, some important disclaimers, and a few critical strategies which will make sense out of this sometimes challenging task. Plus, get a FREE lesson download.

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The Phonics Literacy Center provides 5 collaborative lessons and activities for each of these phonics workshops: Short Vowel Sounds, Silent Final e, Consonant Digraphs, Consonant Blends, Long Vowels, Diphthongs, and r and l-controlled Vowels.

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