A Few Thoughts About Fluency

Fluency is a big buzzword these days.  I've seen it used for reading stories, decoding, and even math fac…

My Traditional Mother's Day Gift

You've Given the QPS, Now What?

My last post was about using the Quick Phonics Screener to find where students have reading deficits.  If t…

Assessing Reading Difficulties

How do you find out what the children need for Reading RTI (Response to Intervention) time? Our dist…

More Random Tidbits About Our Language Reading Teachers Should Know

I'm sharing more ideas that I learned from my LETRS  (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spe…

Random Tidbits About Our Language Reading Teachers Should Know

A couple of weeks ago, I went to a 4-day LETRS training session.  LETRS stands for Language Essentials for T…

Twelve Strategies to Get From Working Memory to Long Term Memory

I had a delightful group of teachers at my after school workshop today on Using Brain Research in the C…

Seven Brain Based Learning Principles

I've been fascinated by Brain Based Learning.  I've made a point to learn a lot about how the …

A Fun Way to Present Research!

There are so many types of ABC books!    The ABC theme can be tied to content areas. For example, a s…

An Easter Warning and an Easter Tradition

Wow, it's almost Easter already!  Nowadays I don't do as much as we did when we were kids, but w…

Eight Ways to Spice Up April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day is coming up!  In some ways I'm glad. It's hard to pretend to be surprised e…