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Step Up Your Game: 12 Tips to Help Your Students Make the Most of the Great Reading Games
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January 30, 2019 by Valerie Chernek

Each year, innovative teachers sign up their students  for Learning Ally’s Great Reading Games. This annual national event complements any classroom reading activity and ... Read More about Step Up Your Game: 12 Tips to Help Your Students Make the Most of the Great Reading Games

How Audiobooks Helped Me Get My Struggling Readers to Read

January 22, 2019 by Valerie Chernek

By Alyssa Gray, Special Education Teacher, Robinson Middle School, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA  My seventh and eighth graders at Robinson Middle School in Fairfax ... Read More about How Audiobooks Helped Me Get My Struggling Readers to Read

Making Reading Comprehension Click for Struggling Readers
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December 10, 2018 by Valerie Chernek

Students at Woodlynde School in Pennsylvania are revving up to participate in The 2019 Great Reading Games -- a national audiobook event hosted by ... Read More about Making Reading Comprehension Click for Struggling Readers

Decoding Versus Cognitive Ability
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November 3, 2018 by Valerie Chernek

By Terrie Noland, VP Education Initiatives   Automaticity is necessary in everything we do to move to higher order thinking skills and perform tasks flawlessly. In ... Read More about Decoding Versus Cognitive Ability

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