WORD WORK End-of-Year CELEBRATION

Looking for a way to wrap up your WORD WORK year?
End of the year is a great time for CELEBRATIONS!

Test Prep Twist for Struggling Readers

It's a question we all wrestle with. How to help our struggling decoders read high-stakes tests that are written above their reading level?  

While it isn't possible to solve the problem instantly, I like to harness my existing decoding skills intervention to do double duty as supplemental test prep.

GROWING TULIPS AND OTHER READERS

For most of the year, third-grader Haylee had flitted around the reading room, skittish, looking up from her book every few seconds. She read as if a wildfire threatened the east wall of the classroom, looking up every few seconds as if checking to see if danger had broken through. She read as if she needed to know if now was the time to run.

Just-Right Reading A New Perspective

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON JUST-RIGHT READING

"I can't help it," she cried, flinging out her arms. "These books are so interesting! I just love them."