Tag: instruction
Ensuring Equity in Reading Instruction
Early one summer, my parents moved our family into a 900-square-foot house in the central part of town that would become home for my...
New Resource for Literature Instruction and Learning Now Available
Gale, part of Cengage Group, has launched Gale In Context: Literature, a new resource for literature instruction and learning that helps high schoolers engage...
Fostering Language and Literacy Development
Literacy is essential for success in school and in life beyond school. The ability to read and write well provides individuals with untold opportunities...
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Instruction Are NOT the Way We Learn...
An appropriate way to honor Kenneth Goodman is to describe a presentation I gave recently as a guest lecturer in a class at the...
Using Evidence to Overcome Adversity
We are currently in the midst of an education crisis. Given the magnitude of the issues we’ve faced over the last year, it would...
Transforming Reading Instruction
1. Millions of people, including me, learned to read with the help of Reading Mastery. Why change such a successful product? Although Reading Mastery...
Facilitating Sustainable Virtual PD
Whether teachers are instructing entirely online, face-to-face, or in a hybrid capacity, the one constant this school year will be instructional technology.
Even in a...
Newsela and NWEA to Partner
Newsela, a K–12 instructional content platform, has announced a partnership with NWEA to help teachers meaningfully differentiate instruction and engage all learners at a...
Dyslexic Learners Inform Instruction
After 25 years as a classroom teacher of Spanish, German, and English, I decided to make reaching dyslexic students in the world language classroom...
Adding Madness to Method
Nothing draws more heated arguments in the field of language instruction than methods. Between trademarks and remarks, there has been much divisive debate on...
