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Determining Reading Fluency

Learn how to determine a student’s current reading fluency level and pinpoint problems impeding students from becoming fluent readers
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Building Reading Fluency

Four classroom strategies that can help build fluent readers
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What is Reading Fluency?

Literacy experts David Liben and David Paige explain the characteristics of reading fluency
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Top Posts of 2020

Read the most popular posts of the year!
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Tidying Up

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Reaching New Heights

A Framework for Examining Cognitive Complexity in Mathematics
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Here are our top 25 most-visited posts of 2018.
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We’re Bullish on Bookworms

A reflection on the free Bookworms ELA curriculum for K-5
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How do we determine that students are increasing their literacy skills as they progress across grade levels?
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The Daily Write

Strategies to help students engage in daily writing practice
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Materials Alignment Quick Check

Introducing a new evidence catcher to facilitate instructional materials decisions
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Don’t be afraid to ask…

Advice for where to ask--and find answers--to your education questions
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The Essential Elements of an ELA Curriculum

Standards co-author Susan Pimentel explains how the elements of a high-quality ELA program contribute to student learning. She pinpoints where many current programs are missing the mark.
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How to Adapt GO Math!

Guidance Documents to Support the Alignment of GO Math! to the CCSSM
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Using Flashcards in Math

CCSS author Jason Zimba shares how he uses flashcards with his daughters.
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Using Complex Texts with All Readers

A reading interventionist explains the strategies she uses to help struggling readers benefit from complex texts.
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Using What You Have

An introduction to supplementing and adapting instructional materials

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Reviewing instructional materials for CCSS alignment means looking for evidence of the Standards and the Shifts