“There just isn’t enough time in the day to teach everything our students need to know.” This is a common refrain among teachers, especially in elementary grades where we are required to teach content ...

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 ...

Today’s post is the fourth in a series offering strategies to support older students experiencing reading challenges. Toni Faddis, Ed.D., previously a bilingual teacher, Reading Recovery specialist, ...

Educators nationwide are embracing the science of reading — a research-backed approach to teaching literacy that goes beyond phonics. From orthographic mapping to rich vocabulary exposure, teachers ...

Explicit instruction is a term that summarises a type of teaching in which lessons are designed and delivered to novices to help them develop readily-available background knowledge on a particular ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...