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		<title>Free Funnix returns!</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2012/01/17/free-funnix-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loyal readers of TE will recall that the folks at Royal Limited Partnership gave away copies of the Funnix Beginning Reading program in 2011. Welp, it&#8217;s going to happen again! Yes indeedy! Quoting from a page on the Funnix Web site: From February 1 through 16th, the Funnix Beginning Reading program will be free for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free gift from Education Consumers Foundation!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it unusual to get something for free that is actually worth a lot? The good folks over at Education Consumers Foundation (ECF) are giving away a small book that is quite valuable, and I encourage readers to download it, read it, and tell their friends to get it, too. What are they giving away? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the teaching that matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does all the verbiage about the ills of education make you wonder about the reasoning skills of educational reformers? Well, it does make me have questions. I practice resisting the urge to walk away when people start attributing educational underachievement to problems we educators can&#8217;t change (poverty, for example) or to features of schooling that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching spelling promotes general literacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 15:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Using Encoding Instruction to Improve the Reading and SpellingPerformances of Elementary Students At Risk for Literacy Difficulties: A Best-Evidence Synthesis,&#8221; professsors Beverly Weiser and Patricia Mathes of Southern Methodist University reviewed of studies of the effects of spelling instruction on literacy performance and found that systematic instruction in helping students to convert speech into [...]]]></description>
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