Most secondary educators don't get much teacher preparation to help students struggling to read. Realizing that its teachers ...
New data show that many educators report that middle and high school students struggle with aspects of foundational literacy.
The older I get, the more I forget the things I read. That’s probably because I just have read more, so fewer things I read strike me as new or memorable. So I forget. It is also true that most of my ...
Reading is, in some sense, the foundational act of most college learning: it is the place where our students come into contact with new concepts, new horizons, and unsettling ideas; where they find ...
Steve Grineski writes: "Every day local staff teach students to decode words, understand meaning and develop a love for ...
EdSource · Some school lunches are getting a makeover. Will federal cuts set them back? Students spent about 15 minutes a day working with their Zoom tutor, targeting their own individual reading ...
Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Low statewide reading scores have sparked many advocates to call for California to adopt a so-called structured literacy curriculum that ...
Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman said she instructs students on atoms, matter and how they “influence the world around us.” But Hackman also has another responsibility: ...
Research shows that most children need systematic, sound-it-out instruction — commonly called phonics — rather than older approaches that focus on context clues from pictures and stories. WICHITA, ...
Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...
To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...
Angie Hackman teaches chemistry at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, where all teachers are required to integrate literacy instruction into their classes. Credit: Image provided by ...