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Lessons for teaching reading comprehension with the Cascade Format.

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Oct 16, 2023

Introducing the Cascade Reading Lesson Series – ‘The Other Side of the Rope’

Julie Van Dyke and Margie Gillis introduce a lesson series that uses Cascade Reading to teach sentence structure and support reading comprehension.
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Oct 16, 2023

Lesson 1 – Teaching Comprehension with Cascade Reading

Teach students to identify subjects and predicates and explore prepositional phrases using Cascade Reading’s visual sentence structure.
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Nov 5, 2023

Lesson 2 – Indentations in Cascade

Teach students to identify direct objects and use Cascade’s indentations to understand how phrases and clauses relate within a sentence.
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Feb 19, 2024

Lesson 3 – Sentence-initial Indentations

In this lesson, we look at subordinate clauses and phrases that occur before the sentence.
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Feb 17, 2025

New Video Lesson Plan Series: Introducing the Cascade Format

Explore a six-part video lesson series that introduces Cascade Format and the grammatical concepts behind its formatting principles.