Teacher Resources

Morphology 

The study of how words are formed with prefixes, bases, and suffixes.

SWI - Structured Word Inquiry to guide your lesson planning (from Pete Bower's work):

1. What does the word mean?

2. How is the word built? (prefixes? bases? suffixes?)

3. What are its relatives?

4. How are the graphemes functioning in the words?

My past lesson slides from HMS #1

Past lesson slides from HMS #2

Neil Ramsden's Mini-Matrix Home Page

Neil Ramsden's Word Searcher to find possible relatives (crosscheck a Etymology dictionary to see if they're actually related)

Pete Bower's response to a teacher's question

Fluency

Three aspects of fluent reading: accuracy, rate, and prosody.

Oral Reading Passage Generator (Just copy a pdf of a passage you're teaching and paste it in the generator.)

Sample from Wordly Wise Book 4, Sequoya's Gift

Hasbrouck-Tindal Fluency Norms Table

READING FLUENCY: ESSENTIAL FOR READING COMPREHENSION presented by Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D.   (YouTube)

Reading Rockets - Partner Reading is a cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text. Students take turns reading and provide each other with feedback in order to monitor comprehension. (Website)

Partner Reading for Accuracy pdf from International Dyslexia Association (Georgia) (PDF)

Partner Reading: An evidence-based Practice Teacher's Guide from the Meadow's Center (PDF)

Best Practices

Providing Reading Interventions Grades 4-9 Teacher Guide  - What Works Clearinghouse/Institute of Education Services.gov

More info (video, etc)

Supporting ENL Students

Raise your students cognate-consciousness by drawing their attention to words in Modern English that share a similar history  to words in their home language.

NYU List of Cognates

Evidence-Based Instruction - Elsa Cardenas-Hagan's book (below)

Please let me know if you've found any typos!  :-)