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Blog Post Why Instructional Sequence Doesn’t Always Matter Beyond very general guidelines, teachers have a lot of latitude in sequencing instruction for letters and sounds.
Blog Post Why Main Idea Is Not the Main Idea — or, How Best to Teach Reading Comprehension Focus on summarizing, text structure analysis, and paraphrasing — those skills require more integrated thinking about a text’s content.
Blog Post Which Should We Use, Nonsense Word Tests or Word ID Tests? If you are only going to give one, and your specific interest is monitoring phonics progress in grade K-2, I’d go for a real word reading test.