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Word ID: Assessment Across the Content Areas This collection of 12 discipline-specific formative assessments can be used to easily identify secondary students who would benefit from instruction in multisyllabic word identification—a skill that’s critical for reading and understanding complex, academic texts. The book contains three uniquely constructed formative assessments for each content area: English Language […]

Hundreds of phonics-based, hi-lo, and Lexiled reading materials  for at-risk, ESL, and struggling readers High Noon Books offers struggling readers books that will be of interest to them, at their reading level. These highly-engaging books incorporate much more than short sentences and low Lexile scores. They contain controlled vocabulary, subtle repetition of vocabulary, predictable text, and […]

All teachers want their students’ achievement levels to increase. Small group instruction and cooperative learning have a significant impact on student achievement (Hattie, 2009) and are widely used in elementary classrooms. Many middle and high school teachers are increasingly using these structures in other content areas. However, prior to implementing small group instruction teachers often […]

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By Linda Diamond and Michelle Rodriguez Numerous recent reports cite the difference in student learning that an effective curriculum can make. These reports include Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Studies, StandardsWork, Curriculum Research: What We Know and Where We Need to Go; Ashley Berner’s report in Thomas Fordham Institute’s Flypaper, August 2018; and Brookings report […]

Numbers are all around us. Let’s teach children to embrace rather than fear numbers.

Welcome to the Spring 2018 edition of the CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! The end of the school year is upon us! We hope that you have had a productive school year and feel proud of the learning that your students have accomplished. In this edition’s Reading Expert column, we tackle some misconceptions about dyslexia that still […]

Students with disabilities are not making the achievement gains they should make. The achievement gap between students with disabilities and students without disabilities has remained largely unchanged despite adaptive technologies and supposedly research-based methods. But we can improve outcomes for special education students by significantly improving general education and special education together.

Welcome to the Winter 2018 edition of the CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! Spring is in the air! We at CORE hope that your school year has gone well and the upcoming testing period and the end of the school year (fast approaching) will go smoothly. In this issue of the Academic Quarterly, in the Reading Expert section, […]

CORE will be delivering two presentations at CABE 2018, March 28-31, in Sacramento, California. And be sure to visit us at Booth 223! CORE’s President, Linda Diamond, and our Senior Adolescent Literacy Coordinator, Lauren Greenberg, will deliver, “Scaffolding Complex Text for English Learners,” on Thursday, March 29, at 1:30pm. DOWNLOAD HANDOUT Lauren Greenberg, our Senior Adolescent […]

This month’s CORE Excellence in Education Blog focuses on the importance of mathematical fluency and number sense as a critical foundation for entering mathematics in middle and high school.

CORE delivered five presentations at NABE 2018, March 1-3, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Download the presentations and handouts below. CORE’s President, Linda Diamond, and our Senior Adolescent Literacy Coordinator, Lauren Greenberg, delivered, “Functional Grammar and the Implications for Academic Literacy and Text Study,” on March 2 at 8:30am. DOWNLOAD HANDOUT Our Chief Academic Officer, Dale Webster, […]

It is with great sadness that we said good-bye to our long-time advisory board member, Phyllis C. Hunter who passed away on February 4, 2018 in Houston, TX. Mrs. Hunter was a valued member of the CORE family and a true leader in the field of reading and literacy instruction. Throughout her 40-year career she […]

CORE’s President, Linda Diamond, delivered a presentation, “Scaffolding Vocabulary in the Context of Close Reading of Complex Text,” at Plain Talk About Literacy and Learning, February 26-28, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Download her handout below. DOWNLOAD HANDOUT

CORE’s Director of Math, Dean Ballard, delivered a presentation, “Guided Investigations: Where Discovery Becomes Productive,” at the California STEAM Symposium. Download his handout and slides below. Presentation Description: Merge discovery, productive struggle, meaningful discourse and explicit instruction to maximize engagement, focus, and learning. Work with and hear about lessons that utilize analyzing physical data to create […]