FAQ about Guided Reading via the 4 Block model.

A great introduction to what PA is, how students struggling with PA issues would appear to parents & teachers, and some suggested activities for how to help these struggling readers.

A great introduction to what phonics is, how students struggling with phonics issues would appear to parents & teachers, and some suggested activities for how to help these struggling readers.

A great introduction to what fluency is, how students struggling with fluency issues would appear to parents & teachers, and some suggested activities for how to help these struggling readers.

A great introduction to what vocabulary is, how students struggling with vocabulary issues would appear to parents & teachers, and some suggested activities for how to help these struggling readers.

A great introduction to what comprehension is, how students struggling with comprehension issues would appear to parents & teachers, and some suggested activities for how to help these struggling readers.

Ideas behind what could be causing struggling readers (outside of the 5 Big Ideas in reading), how the problem would look in a student, and resources for how to help students with their reading issues.

Awesome printable & color-code-able (yay for Type-A personalities!) cards. Each strand of Blooms has several cards with activities a student could do while interacting with a text. This is from a 1st grade teacher's blog, but I think it could easily work for a large age range.

A graphic organizer used to help students with vocabulary words.

Online & printable math games from Pearson's Investigation's math series. Games are hands-on and conceptual in content. All math strands are covered.

Online & printable math games from Pearson's Investigation's math series. Games are hands-on and conceptual in content. All math strands are covered.

Online & printable math games from Pearson's Investigation's math series. Games are hands-on and conceptual in content. All math strands are covered.

Lists of games, books, websites that would be good resources for parents or teachers.

Online way to model addition (part, part, whole), multiplication, ratios, and fractions. Great tool for working though & labeling word problems!

A brief history about the development and push for the Common Core standards.