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We’re Updating Our Free Guided Reading Resources
This summer we’re upgrading our guided reading tools, templates, and free activities. Thing is, we want your feedback! What is your biggest pain point in guided reading? What’s most frustrating? What’s the toughest part of organizing your reading groups? What gets in the way of your helping your students? We want to know these things…
Spiral Reading Program That’s Easy To Use
A spiral reading program that’s easy to use will make preparation simpler for teachers, engage student attention, and sequence literacy learning in a spiral curriculum. An effective spiral reading program is a research-proven reading intervention program for your lowest-performing students as well as for students who come to you ready to learn more and learn…
Improving ESL Learners’ Grammar with Gamified-Learning
Grammar is intricate. This is certainly true with the complexity of English grammar. Grammar can be difficult for learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). But can grammar be mastered using games or digital technology? You might even wonder Why is Grammar Important (more on that here)? Yes, grammar skills and knowledge can improve…
Oral Reading Fluency Assessment
It’s one of the best tools for reading instruction and assessment of student reading skills growth – oral reading fluency assessment. It’s simple to administer, we have them embedded into our progress monitoring tools at Spiral WarmUps, and they can be administered in a variety of settings (small group, whole class, online, formal, informal, etc).…
Did Students Lose Reading Skills During COVID?
This quick article presents the research behind student learning during COVID as it pertains to reading competencies. But before we look at the research let’s recap some common sense. Ask any teacher, and you’ll get one of two stories: Ask any parent who withdrew their child from school during COVID (2020-2021), and you will also…
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