Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...
Lower-income children who need preparation in academic language and exposure to texts that promote academic vocabulary are not getting enough of either type of instruction. Explicit vocabulary ...
Dyslexia advocates from multiple states have criticised schools and educators wedded to “whole language” and “balanced literacy” approaches to reading instruction, saying “ineffective” methods were ...
How best to teach kids to read is a worldwide conversation – underscored recently in Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, by award-winning American Public Media investigative ...
As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The best teaching had to do with ...