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5 Helpful Websites for Teaching Vocabulary

Learn about five websites for teaching vocabulary and engage your intermediate and middle school students as they build their word knowledge.

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How to Help Your Students Succeed with Independent Reading

Independent reading involves skills that our intermediate and middle-level students may or may not have when they come to us. As language arts teachers, it is our

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How to Build a Word Knowledge Toolbox

Upper intermediate and middle school students can enhance their reading comprehension by focusing on six areas of word knowledge. It’s a simple fact…

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How to Improve Vocabulary with the List-Group-Label Strategy

With the List-Group-Label strategy, students are actively engaged as they collaborate to list, group, and label words from any list. Many aspects of

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