Extensive research clearly shows that students, regardless of their learning difficulties, reach higher and faster achievement with SYSTEMATIC AND EXPLICIT instruction. Which of the following best defines systematic instruction?

 When John died in 1216, the ______ of the French _______  was/were on English soil.  [one pairing fills both blanks]

The “Battle of Maldon” was fought during the reign of ______ .

The landed nobility, especially the great lords, lost considerable ________ in the aftermath of the plague.

Gerald of Wales’ description of Henry II must be viewed with skepticism for Gerald had no direct contact with Henry.

In the wake of the plague, it seems almost everyone, including the religious, was preoccupied with _______.

The Roman invasion and conquest of Britannia was _____.

 The lecture notes point to an escalation of ______ which pervaded the politics, domestic and foreign, in the fourteenth century.

When the textbook informs about the sacrament of the Host, i.e. the bread and wine, its focus is on the ______.  Your professor would have you pondering the devotional focus which dwelled on ______.  [One pairing answers correctly both blanks.]

When the narrator of the battle refers to the “soul-house,” he means the _____.